“ Never mind that all the Harkryders and their ilk from every cove in Appalachia wouldn’t fill up one slum in a major city, they were still the image of the region. Martha wondered why city people judged urban areas by their wealthiest inhabitants and rural areas by their poorest. It didn’t seem fair, but it had always been that way, and even if the Harkryders got indoor plumbing and learned to talk like Dan Rather, she doubted it would change anything. ”
Sharyn McCrumb, She Walks These Hills
