The Appalachian Nationalist

An independent Appalachia for a free and prosperous Appalachian People. #CrushTheFlatlander

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Nash is the only person to be awarded both the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and the Abel Prize.

Russel Crow played Nash in the 2001 drama "A Beautiful Mind," which was based largely on actual events in Nash's life. #AppalachianHeros

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By a vote of 90-9 today, the West Virginia House gave final approval to a bill that would take an important first step towards treating gold and silver as money instead of a commodity. https://t.co/WUcfUwhjvN

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Appalachian Lingo: The Meaning of “By God”

The term “By God” actually has two meanings.

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The Communists among us. . .

Did you know that Highlander Folk School, near Monteagle in East Tennessee, has been used to train subversives for generations?

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Dangerous Plant Threatening Appalachia: Burns & Blinds Victims

When exposed to skin, the sap from a Giant hogweed plant can cause severe skin and eye irritation, painful blistering and permanent scarring.

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Black Lung Rate Hits 25-Year High In Appalachian Coal Mining States

One in five working coal miners in central Appalachia who have worked at least 25 years now suffer from the coal miners' disease black lung.

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Moonshine was once at the center of social life in Appalachia until an alliance of Northern Industrialists, Missionaries, Lowland Planters and Highland Urbanites turned respected whiskey makers into a drunken hillbilly caricature.

#CrushTheFlatlander

#MoonshineNationalism

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Why is it OK to slur Appalachia?

This isn’t the first time we’ve had to ask this question and, sadly, it probably won’t be the last.

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Florida Man Must Be Stopped!

This time Florida man has been sentenced for his role in a wire fraud and aggravated identity theft conspiracy involving credit card skimmers in Appalachian Tennessee.

#CrushTheFlatlander

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Why are there huge rock stacks located throughout the Appalachian Mountains?

Like so many others, the answer to this question all depends on whom you ask!

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Water in Appalachia Needs a Trillion Dollar Solution

The United Nations recognizes access to water and sanitation as one of our basic human rights. Yet there are places in Appalachia where that right is being indirectly infringed upon.

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Appalachian Internment Camps

At the beginning of World War II, diplomats from the Axis countries were stranded in the US.

These enemy diplomats couldn’t just be allowed to roam free nor could they be locked up in jail.

The solution might surprise you.

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In the Appalachian Republic all drivers from Florida "will have to be physically removed and separated from society."

#CrushTheFlatlander

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What do you think about Georgia wildlife officials allowing statewide hunting of deer ‘over bait’?

Beginning this fall, hunters across the state will be able to participate in the controversial practice of hunting deer near a feed station.

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Blast into Independence Day with the Museum of Appalachia's anvil shoot

Shooting fireworks to celebrate Independence Day may be the norm in the year 2018, but around the time of the civil war, shooting anvils was a common celebratory tradition.

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Overlooked No More: Emma Gatewood, First Woman to Conquer the Appalachian Trail Alone

What the woman known as Grandma Gatewood accomplished in 1955 was remarkable. So is the untold story of what she overcame before that.

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Defend The Mountain Home!

#CrushTheFlatlander

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Trump misidentifies Appalachian Trail as 'Tallahassee Trail'

Trump has enough on his plate, well let him slide. . . this time. . .

#CrushTheFlatlander

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Salon asserts that "the digital landscape introduces the potential for transformation for queer and trans life in our mountains.”

Any thoughts on the "queering of #Appalachia?"

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Wrong ideas about Appalachia, the South

Many likes, interests and outlooks have been associated with being Southern, but I think it’s time we clear up a few things.

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#AppalachianHeros

Born in Southwest Virginia, June Carter Cash won five Grammy Awards, was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame in 2009 and ranked number 31 in CMT's 40 Greatest Women in Country Music in 2003.