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The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia. By Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen M. Blee...region is the persistence of widespread economic poverty amid great natural ...
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