Word: appalachians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago they know them as WASPS (for White Appalachian Southern Protestants), in Cincinnati as SAMS (for Southern Appalachian Migrants). St. Louis calls them, among other things, swamp turkeys and hoosiers. In Columbus and Cleveland they are simply called hillbillies (the name they dislike most). By whatever name, more than a million impoverished white Southerners, comprising 20% of the population of the 250 Appalachian Mountain counties in nine Southern states, *moved northward between 1950 and 1960 to eke out a precarious living in the big cities. Packed into secondhand cars loaded down with their meager possessions, swarms still arrive every...
Still in the Hills. But civilization, of a sort, has reached the mountains. TV has penetrated into many Appalachian shacks that have little other furniture. It has brought with it a glimpse of jobs, salaries and luxuries that the mountaineers never dreamed of. Dressed in their mountain "uniform"-tight blue jeans, white sweat socks and open-necked shirts for the men, simple print dresses for the women-they have turned to the cities for a new life...
Most of them find the city a strange and unfriendly place. They long for the hill country, talk of returning to it as soon as they have saved a chunk of money to start anew. "I don't believe Appalachian whites ever get to like the city," says Bernard S. Houghton, director of Cleveland's West Side Community House. "It's simply wages that bring them here. They never get out of the hills." Asked to take part in any community affairs, the mountaineers almost invariably refuse, arguing that they do not intend to be around long...
Master of the World (American International). In the summer of 1848 an Appalachian summit known as The Great Eyrie was rocked by violent explosions and a moment later a tremendous voice cried out, as if from the heart of the mountain, and prophesied the destruction of the world. The U.S. was electrified by the news and fascinated by the mystery it portended: Had the Lord God again, as in the olden time, spoken to his people...
...INDUSTRIAL CONSTRUCTION : Hard-marketing Kaiser has sold 400 aluminum transmission towers to the Appalachian Power Co. for a 122-mile line that will rise this fall between Roanoke, Va., and Glasgow, W. Va. Two all-aluminum highway bridges are now abuilding on Long Island...