Appalachian Regional Commission: Difference between revisions

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| formation = {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|1965|3|9}}

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The Appalachian Region, as defined by Congress, includes all of [[West Virginia]] and portions of 12 other states: [[Alabama]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], [[Kentucky]], [[Maryland]], [[Mississippi]], [[New York (state)|New York]], [[North Carolina]], [[Ohio]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[South Carolina]], [[Tennessee]], and [[Virginia]]. ARC serves 423 counties and 8 independent cities that encompass roughly {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|205000|sqmi}}, with a population of more than 25 million people.

A study conducted in 1981 comparing the perceptions of Appalachia's boundaries and the ARC's definition, published in the academic journal ''Southeastern Geographer,'' asked respondents to draw an encircled area identifying what they considered to be Appalachia on a map. The study found less than 20% of respondents agreed that southern New York was part of Appalachia, as designated by the ARC, and that less than 10% of respondents agreed with the ARC's inclusion of northeastern Mississippi and northwestern Alabama in Appalachia. Respondents residing outside of Appalachia were more likely to define the region broadly, in agreement with the ARC, and respondents from within the region were more likely to define it restrictively. The majority of responses defined Appalachia as an area encircling the locations possessing the highest amount of negative characteristics that the ARC was created to combat—flooding, environmental degradation, poverty, and geographic isolation, among others.<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span> [[File:Counties included in Appalachia map.svg|thumb|Cultural definitions of Appalachia:{{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|#550000ff|Always included in Appalachia}}{{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|#aa0000ff|Usually included in Appalachia}}{{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|#ff8080ff|Sometimes included in Appalachia}}{{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|#ffd5d5ff|Rarely included in Appalachia}}{{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|#ffffffff|Physically contains the Appalachian Mountains or associated features; not culturally Appalachian}} The blue dotted line encloses the counties included in the ARC definition]]

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* {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|last1=Caudill |first1=Harry M. |author-link1=Harry M. Caudill |title=Night comes to the Cumberlands: A biography of a depressed area |date=1963 |publisher=Little, Brown |series=An [[Atlantic Monthly]] Press book |location=Boston |isbn=0316132128 |oclc=171740 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/nightcomestocumb00harr }}

* {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|last1=Ferenchik |first1=Mark |last2=Riepenhoff |first2=Jill |last3=Alford |first3=Roger |last4=Price |first4=Rita |title=Appalachia: Hollow Promises — A Five-Day Series |url=http://www.dispatch.com/news/special/APPALACHIA/SUNDAY/index.html |access-date=March 26, 2018 |work=[[The Columbus Dispatch]] |date=September 26–30, 1999 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030314232118/http://www.dispatch.com/news/special/APPALACHIA/SUNDAY/index.html|archive-date=March 14, 2003 |location=Columbus, OH}}

* {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|last1=Weinbaum |first1=Eve S. |title=To move a mountain: Fighting the global economy in Appalachia |date=2004 |publisher=New Press |location=New York |isbn=1565847849}}

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