WataugaWatch: Schizoid North Carolina

Monday, March 09, 2009

Schizoid North Carolina

Our state wants people to gamble on the state lottery.

But our state also wants people NOT to gamble on the state lottery.

This is what happens when a basically puritanical, uptight society decides to profit itself on people's weaknesses. It wants the money, but it also wants to pride itself piously as discouraging "problem gamblers."

Can we get a giant "AMEN"?

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J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.
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