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John Shelton Reed Southern Cultures, Volume 3, Number 4, 1997, pp. 25-36 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1997.0062 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/425129/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 17:39 GMT from JHU Libraries ESSAY by John Shelton Reed ^^ ne January day in 1996,1 1 picked up the WallStreetJournalto find a story headlined "Rural County Balks atJoining Global Village."2 It told about Hancock County, Tennessee, which straddles the Clinch River in the ridges hard up against the Cumberland Gap, where Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee meet. This is a county that has lost a third of its 1950 population, which was only ten thousand to begin with. A third of those left are on welfare, and half of those with jobs have to leave the county to work. The only town is Sneedville, population 1 300, which has no movie theater, no hospital, no dry cleaner, no supermarket, and no department store. I read this story with a good deal of interest because the nearest city of any consequence is my hometown of Kingsport, thirty-five miles from Sneedville as the crow flies, but an hour and a half on mountain roads. (If
Southern Cultures – University of North Carolina Press
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