/pol/ doesn't seem to realize that the nc/tn mountain region is 75% transplants. there are next to no hillbillies there. even the trashy white people there aren't hillbillies. that region set the example for why you don't develop the appalachia region. you have rich suburban transplants, hippie transplants who are either trust-fund kids or homeless like you get in the pnw, coastal nc boomer vacation homes, and then you have leftist homestead larpers with "organic famrs." most of the people there are not locals, locals have had to move somewhere else because they can't afford the property prices that were driven up by transplants. you won't find a hillbilly there. hillbillies don't need plumbing, let alone fema aid.
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