Definitions for Appalachia
ˌæp əˈleɪ tʃi ə, -tʃə, -ˈlætʃ i ə, -ˈlætʃ əap·palachi·a

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1. Appalachianoun

   an impoverished coal mining area in the Appalachian Mountains (from Pennsylvania to North Carolina)

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1. Appalachianoun

   A region in the eastern United States, near part of the Appalachian Mountains, that stretches from southern New York state to northern Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia, usually excluding New England.

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1. Appalachia

   Appalachia () is a cultural region in the Eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of New York State to northern Alabama and Georgia. While the Appalachian Mountains stretch from Belle Isle in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, to Cheaha Mountain in Alabama, Appalachia typically refers only to the cultural region of the central and southern portions of the range, from the Catskill Mountains of New York southwest to the Blue Ridge Mountains which run southwest from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia, and the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina. In 2020, the region was home to an estimated 26.1 million people, of whom roughly 80% are white.Since its recognition as a distinctive region in the late 19th century, Appalachia has been a source of enduring myths and distortions regarding the isolation, temperament, and behavior of its inhabitants. Early 20th century writers often engaged in yellow journalism focused on sensationalistic aspects of the region's culture, such as moonshining and clan feuding, and often portrayed the region's inhabitants as uneducated and prone to impulsive acts of violence. Sociological studies in the 1960s and 1970s helped to re-examine and dispel these stereotypes. Stereotypes about Appalachian people being ignorant, anti-progress, and racist are still grappled in the region by portrayals in media and press publications.While endowed with abundant natural resources, Appalachia has long struggled economically and been associated with poverty. In the early 20th century, large-scale logging and coal mining firms brought wage-paying jobs and modern amenities to Appalachia, but by the 1960s the region had failed to capitalize on any long-term benefits from these two industries. Beginning in the 1930s, the federal government sought to alleviate poverty in the Appalachian region with a series of New Deal initiatives, specifically the Tennessee Valley Authority. This was responsible for the construction of hydroelectric dams that provide a vast amount of electricity and that support programs for better farming practices, regional planning, and economic development. On March 9, 1965, the Appalachian Regional Commission was created to further alleviate poverty in the region, mainly by diversifying the region's economy and helping to provide better health care and educational opportunities to the region's inhabitants. By 1990, Appalachia had largely joined the economic mainstream but still lagged behind the rest of the nation in most economic indicators.

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1. appalachia

   Appalachia is a cultural and geographical region in the eastern part of the United States, stretching from the southern part of New York to northeastern Mississippi. It is notably marked by the Appalachian Mountains, but the region also includes parts of several states including Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. For many, Appalachia is also characterized by its distinct culture, history, and socio-economic conditions.

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1. Appalachia

   Appalachia is a cultural region in the eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of New York state to northern Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia. While the Appalachian Mountains stretch from Belle Isle in Canada to Cheaha Mountain in the U.S. state of Alabama, the cultural region of Appalachia typically refers only to the central and southern portions of the range. As of 2005, the region was home to approximately 23 million people. Since its recognition as a distinctive region in the late 19th century, Appalachia has been a source of enduring myths and distortions regarding the isolation, temperament, and behavior of its inhabitants. Early 20th-century writers often engaged in yellow journalism focused on sensationalistic aspects of the region's culture, such as moonshining and clan feuding, and often portrayed the region's inhabitants as uneducated and prone to impulsive acts of violence. Sociological studies in the 1960s and 1970s helped to re-examine and dispel these stereotypes, although popular media centered on the U.S. East Coast, midwest, and West Coasts continue to perpetuate the image of Appalachia as a culturally backward region into the 21st century.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Appalachia in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Appalachia in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Appalachia in a Sentence

1. Ken Burns:

   We tend to think of Country Music as one thing, but it's always been many things, country Music omnivorously wants to grab cowboy music and western swing, and the Bakersfield sound and the Nashville sound, countrypolitan and all the various permutations of string bands up and down Appalachia, one of which branches off into a whole new genre called bluegrass. Country Music's never ending and Country Music's omnivorous and Country Music's not Country Music. Country Music's always been connected. There's no border. No passports required, that allows you to go into RB or allows you to go into jazz or allows you to go into folk or rock. It is, in fact, one of the parents of rock with RB.

2. Hal Rogers:

   Many coal communities in Appalachia simply do not have the resources to reclaim the abandoned mine sites within their borders, this bill allows these communities to be proactive in restoring these sites and utilize them to put our people back to work.

3. President Barack Obama:

   It's not enough to celebrate the ideals that we're built on, liberty and justice and equality for all. Those just can't be words on paper, the work of every generation is to make those words mean something, concrete in the lives of our children. And we won't get there as long as kids in Baltimore or Ferguson or New York or Appalachia or the Mississippi delta or the Pine Ridge reservation believe that their lives are somehow worthless.

4. New Jersey:

   Good people signed on to that bill. People make mistakes, but let's hold them to that. That crime bill was shameful, what it did to black and brown communities like mine( and) low-income communities from Appalachia to rural Iowa. It was a bad bill.

5. Tom Clarke:

   Our plan is no different from what we’ve done in Appalachia, we are going to put people back to work.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Appalachia
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appalachia
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachia
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Appalachia