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How to use the word appalachia in a Sentence?

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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.

– Ken Burns

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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.

– New Jersey

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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

– Tom Clarke

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We have had a lot to talk about over the last eight years and about how the people of Appalachia have been sorely affected by the policies of this administration, people in this area are hunting for hope and wanting to see that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Donald Trump is showing us that light.

– President Bill Raney

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

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.

– Hal Rogers

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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.

– President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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