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4 Reddit comments about Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area:

u/rangifer2014 · 102 pointsr/dataisbeautiful

I honestly believe the answers are to be found in the book "Night Comes To The Cumberlands" by Harry M. Caudill. It's an incredibly well-written and well-researched account of precisely how the coal industry destroyed both the culture, the land, and the connection of culture and land in Appalachia. It was published in 1962 and I believe what we are seeing now in those parts of the country is a direct, unforeseen result of that industry having gone unchecked all those years ago.

u/ThouShaltNotFart · 2 pointsr/technology

Read Night Comes to the Cumberlands to get an idea of how badly people in coal country have historically been fucked over. Don't get me wrong, over the years coal has created jobs and supported families but this book tells the story of how coal has abused communities also.

u/MegasBasileus · 2 pointsr/booksuggestions

As a Kentuckian I must recommend Night Comes to the Cumberlands anything by Harry Caudill or his successor Ronald D. Eller (both Appalachian specialists at University of Kentucky) is bound to be great. Our paper did a series Fifty years after night

Fiction wise I understand many books center on the caricature of a strong Appalachian woman- Bean Trees and The Dollmaker, both about displaced Appalachians. The Bean Trees hits the head on what you want, but it's a peripheral theme.

Something about being felt left out Their Eyes Were Watching God there is a longer list here

Good luck! I know all about feeling like an outsider an Appalachia.

u/eggsuckingdog · 1 pointr/politics

We did not ask for those coal fired plants nor the coal under our hills. Carpetbaggers have been here for 100 years. Look up 'severed estates' as a legal term. Folks here don't even own their mineral rights under their own land in most cases.
We have produced a different kind of blues/bluegrass based on this history starting with Bill Monroe. Sturgill Simpson is our newest from Jackson. The theme is digging your own grave. We have had US Steel, Peabody, company stores, script, coal dust. And we didn't build those damn coal powered plants anyway. TVA projects.
For reference read this:
https://www.amazon.com/Night-Comes-Cumberlands-Biography-Depressed/dp/1931672008
I am not sure if KY voters will wise up in 10 years, We were the last southern state to fall to whatever the hell this gop revolution in the south is. But we were also neutral int the civil war, so I have hope