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• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Catte, Elizabeth. What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia. Best Publishing, 2018. Print.

• Catte opens by reflecting on common impressions of Appalachia she encountered while living in Texas with her husband.

• She writes that perspectives on the region appeared to be influenced by a book by J.D Vance called Hillbilly Elegy, a nonfiction memoir that purports to offer a means of understanding “the lives of disaffected Trump voters” (7) in the Appalachian region, positing them as a locus for understanding America’s most severe social problems.

• Yet Catte notes that these issues – such as poverty, racism, and addiction – can be found all over the U.S, and are not particular to the Appalachian region.

• Books like Hillbilly Elegy and the media during the 2016 presidential election have reductively depicted Appalachians largely as white, working-class individuals...

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