There’s a magical moment that happens when you round the bend on a mountain road in Tucker County and first lay eyes on Thomas, West Virginia – your blood pressure drops about ten points and your grip ...

Learn more about the top things to do in Princeton, West Virginia and the surrounding area including outdoor adventures, ...

Kentucky Democrats are trying to address the party's steep deficits in overwhelmingly white, conservative pockets of rural America.

Donald Trump had picked Vance as his running mate at least in part because his “hillbilly ... coal miner in West Virginia. At the RNC, Vance invoked his Appalachian burial ground to challenge ...

Five generations of Vances gathered in West Virginia last month ... a collection of essays called “Appalachian Reckoning” that serves as a rebuttal to “Hillbilly Elegy.” ...

And Marlinton tries to have its snake and eat it, too: by leaning in to West Virginia’s stereotypes while trying to show there’s something more to the state than hillbilly caricature.

Pancake’s dispossessed characters, from labourers struggling on failing farms in West Virginia to coal miners ... who have often been stereotyped as hillbillies… [earning] him a place in the canon of ...

During his years in the kitchen, chef Jason Talbott has developed his own style of cooking based on his West Virginia upbringing. He calls it hillbilly fusion. After owning his own restaurant ...

The state’s southeast, adjoining West Virginia ... the traditional values borne by Appalachian migrants, Vance grew up in a world where the pejorative “hillbilly” retained the sting of ...

"Located along the Appalachian Mountains ... of the Big Sandy River separating West Virginia and Kentucky." Vance claims in ...