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Saturday, August 11, 2007
Whatever Happened to Stephanie Nicole?
The sociological and anthropological ink is bound to flow on this, trying to figger out WHY, but the Social Security Administration reports that in 2006, in 11 out of 13 Southern states, Madison was the most popular baby girl's name.
Madison? In the South?
The most popular baby boy's name during the same period, in 8 out of 10 Southern states, was William. Not Billy, but William.
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.
The views expressed on WataugaWatch are solely those of J.W. Williamson or individual contributors and are not necessarily shared nor endorsed by the Watauga County Democratic Party nor by any other adults of sound mind in this or any other universe.
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