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no one is doing something this is where we're owning our hillbilly. we're taking pride in the way we look. definitely the really nice way they help people with what is your billing lo medina value with modern time. this is what we're calling arguably here. i think i can better flag. wow. hi dr. well, you left a good one. i'm not those last not member name, stick to bag black black. my interview go talk about the book. i was going on on their side to amber. go full. so brian doing about with her to marry. you was my fit, the biology male. you got to get to know me a lot better to all of these are represent the bangs that we fear is america talking can like drug on a did that it might take years have lead only. wow. i grew up in appalachia
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watching my grandfather like he ha, oh the beverly hillbillies. ah, i hated the shows growing up. i'm gonna go with you. can't you are ma'am. oh, my champ, there's a long history of stereotyping that has plagued the appalachian region. yeah. now the dumb trav voters really are the dumb trump voters because they certainly all sound as tacky and as stupid and as mind blowing. li, ignorant as he does, i. in the run up to the 2016 presidential election, i was making a film about portrayals of appalachian people and pop culture news coverage about the region exploded. and suddenly every one was talking about the great divide.
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blue versus red, urban versus rural in one region, my hometown region was singled out as the reason for trump's rise. my hometown is kemper kentucky right in the heart and the appalachian coal fields. though when most people hear my accent, they assume i'm from the south. appalachian in the region with history and culture that has complicated and all sound the term hillbilly was born here. and more recently the idea of the heart of trump country ah, ah ah, ah, this is me. ah, during the election,
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this was my facebook page. ah, this is my grainy shelby ah, around the time of the election. this was her facebook page. ah, donald trump grabbing me, i just can't believe my grandmother posted this on my wall. i may be the only person from kemper kentucky and los angeles. almost everyone i know hear, despises trump, but back home the perspective is quite different. the 2016 election may painfully clear the disdain that urban liberals have toward so much of rural america, particularly appalachia. i relate to both worlds. as a progressive feminist and filmmaker, i was curious to visit my home town during this divisive political moment.
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oh, we are on our way to meet house holler, which is where i grew up. and where i lived until i was 18 years old. when i was accepted to the university of kentucky and i packed up the u haul and moved out. this is me when i was 9. i won the spelling bee that year. i was a member of the speech and drama team. i was on the homecoming court. i graduated at the head of my class. there's a photograph from the day i moved out. i had no idea when i was standing in that driveway. what i was about to experience moving from rural kentucky to urban
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kentucky was the greatest culture shock of my life. people identified me as someone from the mountain. the reaction to the way i talked or insulting and made me feel silent. i moved to los angeles years later and to this day, people fill out. where'd you get that accent? where are you from? oh my goodness gracious. this is me taller and my child at home, right before we moved out of that house in 1998. is that a rebel flag right there in the middle? yeah, this was my bedroom up here. my dad did all this bridge work for the record. this flagpole was not here when we lived here and there certainly was no
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confederate flag flying high on our property. my mom was a nurse and my dad worked in the coal mines until he got laid off. he became a brick mason. he once said to me that people would look at him and my mom as embodying the american dream. they went from living in a single wide trailer to building their dream home. i felt fortunate as a child for most people in my hometown at that time there were basically 2 job opportunities. cole and wal mart. i work at wal mart. it gets hard times out here and then gets breath best and you know, when or when you know, and none of you know me and the best way you can just try to make me back in the hills of floyd county,
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kentucky. you will find some of the poorest places in america one wrote out, lloyd county, i'm going that's right. next door to pike county where i education is the only way out. when i was 9 years old, i saw this 48 hours news program which made sweeping generalizations about people from my region. like we were all to be pity. so this is your room. i was in a little crowded near that show made me feel shame for being from eastern kentucky during the war on poverty in the 60s. the federal government spent more than $3000000000.00 to build highways, connecting the appalachian hills to the rest of america. but a university of kentucky study found that many residents can't even afford the gas . it would take to get away every day. that's probably the struggle for the things many people take for granted that tv news program had a lasting impact on me. it was the 1st time i saw my community portrayed and for what trash, a legacy that goes way back. and this ration to they hear and
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now declares unconditional war on poverty in america. but mrs. johnson took to the roots of appellation property, the martin county kentucky. the war on poverty is complicated while it helped some people by establishing social welfare programs like food stamps and medicaid. it led to an influx of volunteers and journalists from around the world and their efforts were confusing and troubling to some folks. like my dad and his 2 sisters who were children at the time living in eastern kentucky was one day a school. somebody came in with a truck and gave a ever student. they are a pair of shoes. just half the jam was full of ugly shoot. and that's what the government, i guess, thought we needed. and it was an interesting to have people coming in to look at this area. but it became very evident that it's,
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it was critical and we did said on the porch and we weren't barefoot. that was just what we did. so when i see the film and i see the depiction of suppor appalachian mountain people, and it really irritates me because i didn't see us is that where my granny shelby lives in there are you? i'm good. i'm just putting this my phone on me and then i'm gonna give you her. hi baby. it's good to see. oh, it's great sweet. you granny, this, let's click that on your bell so that it sounds i don't if bill ashley ha, hi. hello. you know, i'm gonna greet you get right to let you keep me her brian. all right,
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granting so see. perfect. because otherwise is roosters are competing rooster here, bird. so this 11 penny tony. first or contact you to actually sell me on you to yeah l a for song. oh, what you find in cm phillips? you said all stager some talking are now kidding. bershard trump camp. he's been wearing trunk shirt. trump cap, which will have a a. so he went with us to the rally. you're going to look back at this selection and say, this is by far the most important vote that you've ever chose for anyone at any time. because it was unfathomable to me, the trunk could be hillary. i just could not understand why my family, who voted for brock obama supported him. what is it about donald trump that makes he want him to be the 45th president of the united states?
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well, the man knows how to make money. no, he wrote, it says got over $10000000.00. she has know how to make money. so i believe you could actually bring the jobs back and create jobs. i'm not saying, trumpeted decisive stopped. it shouldn't have been said the locker room talk, but aubriana for job, not may anybody who has done something similar to that and they just blow it out of proportion. did you all expect to be this enthusiastic about the election because it's been very intriguing to see some of these posts that had been going around. i was a democrat all my la and then primary. i went and changed to republican just so i could vote for trump during the caucus here for a mountainous about that i for i'm from really had and want to have our back before
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isn't just the same old thing empty promises. yeah. now, you know, they're just too much stuff on hillary, you know, just all the investigations and stuff like that. so what we had to loose vote trop, reachable for. i voted for going from, oh shang god, ash i did you all. water was getting him sour look. all i know i did full disclosure. i did a vote by mail application. i did the ballot who's i must not, not a virtue. you girls just rap. i should have job. sad them haven't. dion, you bet. and late you burke. and you'd be lot, lot smarter. thought okay. i appreciate you. are we still? yeah, he did that. i even if it did lead to me becoming a radical progressive,
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we still love you no matter what. oh yeah. we did. you need me for god about that. ah, this is interesting, this is a story that the city paper did in lexington. i think the question wise, where do you see yourself in 10 years? i would have been 18 here. and i said, angela. and that's what happened. my family has lived in eastern kentucky for 6 generations. he was a co minor. my grandparents on both sides worked in the coal industry. you were probably 6 or 8 months old. my whole life i was told to get out. i never questioned why. i went to serve my country, but people just it rode. de leon talked over me and like i wasn't even there,
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they think just because i grew up in the city and they talk with more pronounced words, especially when i know fans went after southern california. that was the worst i was looking for. the the brotherhood under bri up ah, do you think that was all somehow related to their stereotypes of mountain people or to? yes. yeah. will they? they still think northerners always did that. they'd always think that they're above you, bailey hillary said that we were all deplorable. according to her were all nothing were a bunch of backwoods people that are scum on her feet. you could put half a trump supporters into what i call the basket of deplorable
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right people in california and all these other states look at the hillbillies like may they have a certain perception of us because whatever they see on tv. well, bobbie, i emphasize when i was that young stir at 18 years old, going from the holler to the big city, lexington kentucky. that's how i felt, you know, i was a journalism student. you know, journalists are supposed to speak with a midwestern accent, which has meant to be no accent, so that you can pick up and move. and basically, just like sterilized as any kind of culture or regional uniqueness. that might be. and i was told you've got to speak correctly, which meant i was be incorrectly. and of course i believed it like one of the teachers, the professionals. you know, i was working for the n p r affiliate i worked at the city newspaper. i was the editor of student paper. i was the ed or tv change or you were from what you were
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right. ah, i would have never hurt him any more than i'd heard it june, bug my sag. is that like ours got you got this kind of like florida panhandle thing going where's what you really want is more of a savannah? actually i don't that other book on november, arkansas kind of learn. it pulls by half of the constant in arkansas, alabama. yeah. you mailed that real while they get a st. tom and again from these media portrayals is that it produces shame and self hatred. i mean our, with a lot of young people who don't want people to know where they are from. they want to change the way they speak. they want to escape the region as soon as possible because they're ashamed of it. as somebody who grew up in the region, i have always felt several layers of beam. the other always discouraged,
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is feel like a perpetual immigrant because we've been here so long. i mean, my family has been an avalanche of for 8 generations to some extent were still treated like immigrants were treated like we're from another country. when we go out into the rest of the united states, such a strange nominate. people speak slowly to us and expect that we're not gonna, you know, get common references. a woman once asked me if i knew johnny carson was, you know, because i was from appalachian she didn't like we had phoebe's or nobody was literate. apalachee was a construction, it was a social and cultural invention. for example, iowa is a construction to the difference between iowa and appalachian is, you know, when you're in iowa because there's a sign there that says, welcome to iowa. there's no such sign with appalachian everywhere in the world.
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there are half the latches and therefore everywhere you go, there are hillbillies. if we think of the hillbilly as sort of an outcast group, this your 1st trip to new york, i collected an article in which the official chinese news agency criticized a group of chinese people living far away from big gain. as the equivalent of hillbillies. everybody has an appalachian, everybody has somebody that they can feel superior to. we all do bad. why the hillbilly is the image of a guy with a corn cob pi remote ignorant, their foot lazy and so has really been a way of legitimate eating. the dispossession of the mountains, it's a region of people who are deprived, not part of the american dream. they don't really deserve the kind of resources and
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well lie beneath the land of appalachian particularly coal. it's only a region of trash, so why not trash it? in the flood valley, so the appalachians about 20 people are dead. 20000. they've been moved out of helicopters and robots to blame for the flash. blending is being placed on extreme erosion. side, coal operations, strip mining, enlarge tree clearing that allow the water to cascade into rivers with great speed . there were immediate promises of temporary housing from the federal government, but no trailers have arrived yet. nobody gave us anything we worked for maybe, but now we do need help initially when we do need help. why do we need to go? like if we can't get the coal industry created the towns we grew up in. it was the centerpiece of life and the livelihood and identity of so many folks in my home town,
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while it sustained their families. it ravished the land without call. you have very little of everything in our area and i like this area should be very happy that corporations such as ours, us steel and others are here for decades, all companies came to where we grew up and took out truckload after truckload of coal. the mining calls floods and destroyed home and left our creeks orange and lifeless. they brand, you got anything to say, you know, going going got anything, display that the news media, my, my granny. i remember he's max of plus, you know, plus 77 floods took home, floods that, you know, people had to raise their houses and they suffered deeply from that and didn't get support from the government. like migrating i remember her whole life was fighting
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for support and stuff. this is a flood plain here. what we wrong is for fema to come in and help us. i mean people, this is, this is, it's a shame. it's more than a shame. i don't care about people that live down here in these areas that feel water to support it was around, but i would call that newspaper and get them to come over and take pictures. the government is supposed to be for bad people, but that is the way the patients when they get an office, they know who's take care of because they're the ones take care of them. i certainly didn't agree with my grand and politics, but i knew she had a long list of resentments against the government, which helped me understand her point of view. you know, the minor is to
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a certain you're so down and they've been treated so badly that they haven't been voted. they haven't been going out and voting like they can. and that includes members of their family that have left the mining business. let members of the family they've left home. i think at that time, if somebody would've asked her, would you ever vote for someone who would make a comment that he freely would grab one about a i think she'll have a very different answer at that time in her life. this is 6 months to go until the welcome and the clock is taking a teams and funds to make them all about 2022. we'll have a new show every month taking in the news at excitement from across the globe. picking up in south america as maxi thinks to match my rodonna. i brazil look to and a 20
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you oh i see. and listen to the story that i already laid to the business harland county usaa. i saw this movie when i was 19 arabic, glad on the picket laughed, and will wonder contract if they'll, i'll stand it. it was the 1st time i remember seeing the people of eastern kentucky representing dignity on film. oh, this film inspired me to make documentaries. that was like an aha moment. i mean, i grew up in a rural place in public education and it wasn't, you know, a space of like radical thought or ideas. and i think that, that very much set the tone for me and for the direction of my life. and i was interested in telling stories of marginalized and vulnerable people because i grew up in a place where a lot of people are marginalized and a lot of people are vulnerable. i mean,
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it's really incredible the way that media works and how the stories can get told in the immediate aftermath of the civil war. the local color writing presented appalachia as a sort of quirky and quaint peoples. but as industrialists become interested in the region for minerals, for lumber, for coal, the people that were living there could also be seen as a kind of potential threat or at least a interference with their economic plans. and so a new conception emerges of them as a dangerous and threatening people who might threaten civilization itself or not just talking about hillbillies i. e. people who live in the mountains. we're talking about poor people who live in the mountains. they're the ones who are going to cut your throat regional and national newspapers promote them out and people as dangerous and threatening if they stand in the way of progress. oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
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no. you can still hear that. that piece of music. and so you'll lock the car doors just in case the car were to break down. hey, john leo, for the layout lane. in deliverance. there is this horrifying rain. oh, well, now, if you hear that lick on the banjo, it brings up this image of right ah, in deliverance, there is an acknowledgement at the beginning of the film with the images mountain being blown up. an acknowledgment of the cities exploitation of the rural gall rate, this god damn landscaper rate. o louis my extreme point of view agreement. are you nervous the a little bit?
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are you nervous about this them all. i've always been that way. this is used to be my classroom. we had to direct look for extra and somehow they come in, our class got to look and it picked tools out. i wouldn't assign the same person that i was when they put that mike up head mark that it, and it collie shop. ah, i think one of the things that makes deliverance work on lots of levels is that billy's character and my character were able to sort of connect with having that seen work really put this film on a different level which was the break of my life. i guess that's probably one of the great moments ever put on the screen. is there anyone out there who hasn't seen the motion picture delivers? i've seen a large number of people. there is
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a moment there when he plays the the banjo with a retarded boy. and they suddenly discover each other, and ronnie plays the guitar and they do dueling banjos. and i guess probably one of the most electric moments on the screen i get goose pimples. just thinking about it . it was nominated for academy award. mine is a me awards presentation and it's nearly always listed in the top 15 or 30 of the best films of all time, ged, with how much money did you make for your role and deliberate and they'd never been. mm. i wish i would,
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could be an actor. i just left to go to laughing. that's my doing. and hope to now get there one day i just want to happen in billy was only in the 4th grade when the directors came to his school. he had no idea how the movie would be used or that he would become a symbol for the entire region. deliverance for billy his hope and hendrick me when i 1st seen the movie, i didn't know that part was going to be in our in our thought to my sales people. there's going to see that movie is going to fight man. it destroys right. being
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county. ah ah, sports bar that has a white trash theme. it's called the rescue mall. it cautioned to me is taking someone else's culture and explaining it, you know, and using it for your own profit. there's a lot of ironic redneck she and i think it only bothers me in the same way. the white people are turning their block through adopting and pop culture, those. it's not your experience with, along with the same day when you called the white trash party, i thought we just made the biscuit. so anyway, this movie fans with when you get your ideas about what, what trash looks like. wow, i, i see
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a lot of imagery on the internet. i see what are they called memes or means internet means if somebody will put up a picture of like, torn jeans. i'm here with a local white trash. you know, port mainly of char turned into, you know, drinking glass, you know, like rash and i saw a lot of deliverance when i was kid. ah, if a new hipster like what really no like white trash like white here. yeah, absolutely. a lot of hipsters that are maybe dressing like this. don't even know where apalachee is, or understand any of the issues about it. oh, you poor west virginia and still have to like my coal to get your electricity. when like 14 percent of the power of new york city comes from west virginia cole, these hipsters, these millennials are going to be the people running our country. and do they know, like that, say, for instance,
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west virginia has the highest rate of overdose desk in the nation from opioid use, but they're wearing our clothes and trying to look our look in can vegetables and drink moonshine? ah, are the co option of politicians? there's a long history of here. mcconnell and the senate won his 1st election, running a tv ad in which he used hound dogs. he played the hillbilly switched mich, my 7th, george w bush's seen as a redneck. that's exactly right. yeah. nice child privilege. totally different clothes one's on the shock, one's one, the country club is a cultural politics to the success of more right wing groups in this country. and
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it hinges in part, on depiction of white working class people. so from the right, you get this depiction as the salt of the earth. you know, the people that we lift up and from the left, you get the stereotypes of vicious li voted against their own economic interest because of guns because of gaze. and because of god, the 3 cheese their own behavior is precisely what people on the right point to in enlisting white working class folks for very right wing cos it. i mean they have contempt for the core, the country for middle class for rural america. and they're now admitting it, it's really important that people who consider themselves progressive, understand what harm they're doing. i'm the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key in the cold country. because we're going to put
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a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business. we're making a movie about media representations and appalachian american people. so what do you think is important? 2016. 0 man for warren is a man. i'm saying the jobs they really were, the commons is gone. it's got really bad. a lot of folks think about the election. oh, anyway, it goes, there's no way, no co mind and is going to lose a lot of kentucky people jobs. and this is for my goal, lot of people not be able to like it's for their family really wanting to leave regina in united states now. well, i don't want you to try because he is very rude to women in this world. people can't help the latest. they all are right and races. what do you think about his promise to make america great. again, things big rationalize. do you identify hillbillies or?
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yeah, i'm here. leave my keys. are you the only thing? i me i why now, but it didn't work. don't don't us that the color out after you do it, we can go and make adjustments, but i don't actually think it's at blue really beautiful. so rare that you see appalachian through the eyes of an appalachian person in like new york city or you know, in the new york times or something. there are storytellers here who are able to critically examine their communities and to how powerful and honest stories and that you don't necessarily always have to find somebody. and to tell that story in
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memory of the black coal mine and i want to make sure that they're visually ins down the fact that there is a small black community given in this place that i didn't even know about for all my years of living and training a law is pretty much completely changed off and it's really got me in touch with my community and just help people don't have to be alone in the world that they live. i day the girl in college, her parents really races. obviously, she is why her parents had a very negative view of black people, really busy and dangerous all kinds of stuff. anna, we had it in secret, and we did it almost 2 years and her parents pulled out of the school. once they found out that we were dating and i haven't seen her since 2012000 really a heartbreaking thing for me. it's tiring to have to have who you are. as a person, everyone should be able to say who they are as
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a person. that was always very big tomboy, went to school and developed a crush on a girl. like i was laying my bed and just crow every night cuz my entire family, they found out they would hate me like just disowning. sometimes people come in and they haven't really had to hear what it's like for a l g b t q used to be discriminated against our for a person color in the group to be discriminated against. so i think it's creating a bridge of understanding between young people and their own community. there is a guardian article that came out about my home town. they were doing a series about poverty in america. they said something like the average yearly income for
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a household in lee county. kentucky is something like $13000.00 or $14000.00 a year unless you are over the age of $65.00. and then that drops down to like $6000.00 something dollars a year. not only is this a place where people are so overwhelmingly poor, but also it's a place in america where people are overwhelming, the watt and the vast majority of them always vote republican. i'm not conservative, but i think it's wrong to say, oh you guys are stupid, you're just doing it to your sales republican. so your student to your sale, that's not the case. it just seems like you know it's, they're not blaming you for being republican and they're by me for being on greg. if they're not bunny for that, and they're not by me for that and your lazy after this article came out, there are all these people who outside the community are saying things like this
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article is really sad. i feel so sorry for the people who live here. ok, like this person, the brown people get up and move to places, the opportunities, which is what brought people always do. it's the brain drain. they're telling people to do the same stuff that teachers said to me when i was going to high school and bite, you got to get out. you can't, you don't need to be here. you've got to get out. there's nothing here. ah, me there's like around or have something else. so yeah, i don't know. i don't know what to tell you to do. why not for you to just have like a big head. yeah. like say, if we were going to do a montage of the you know, gotcha. gotcha. all right. voting and finally got in the race for president motors, head of the whole issue between the 1st woman president and a business man running for his 1st elected office. 2015 has truly been unlike any
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political race we've ever covered before. trump was eager to out surveys that show him, gaining ground. lot of good falls out there to what still unknown is the outcome on election day. now, i don't know where we are. what's up in america? let's take a president. y'all been on time for security, nettie, hold on. ah, a new hilder cell. read because we did this the most important election i've ever participated in it before. i really didn't care who voted for this time. i know lots of people with i voted stickers on people seem to be voting the guests here, but we'll see they're like moving up in the morning. what kind of hang over really
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b o is in error for that. well, you're going to like break it or something. went out with, well, i'm blank, the hillary, i get a lot more votes and kentucky than people blank. yeah, she's not a wham, but there are lots of little blue dots all over this red site. so i was for my daughter's, i was for me and jason, all the couples. i know who were able to get married on a lot of laurie a decision in america. donald trump wins west virginia and it's
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a state where his message deployed. well, it's whole industry is taking a, beating the map, filling in 19 electoral votes to trump at this early hour. a . it is such a hard question because i love these before because people are people. they have people that built this country to show amazing people. so i would, i just hope my family and i historic what's unfolding right now. it's not over yet . we're watching every state, every electoral, without a doubt, one the most momentous nights in american political history are in the bank here. secretary. and then you want to go out, you say, here's the if you want to read, right? there's more, but they're only the only 24 percent of the book for
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ah, who you will. oh, no. as far as us in hillary, but got, you know, believe oh gosh, this you lost and i was happy. i'm happy that i support the and i'm happy that my vote helped him get there. i just really believed that hillary clinton was gonna be the 45th president of the united states. i believed it so much and i wanted it so badly. you had your hopes on being to be able to see the 1st woman president now voted for. then your dream was crushed and i can accept it. you know, i'm not in that camp of like this is a deal breaker. and i want to like in my relationships with people who voted for donald trump because we all know people who voted for donald trump. and i know another problem that was clearly revealed in this campaign is that hillary was unable to appeal to rural folks. and i think that hurt her. i want to see like what a girl could do,
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but i don't want haley no way of when i have pressed you can all vote shelby girls brownie. i will be a bigger for that. i want that looks like it would get it looks like it might burn a little late bringing your laundry. did you hear my stomach growl? i had i i've been on about the 500 calorie diet. if that last 4 days is not intentional, i'm just, i'm just in the i haven't eaten a whole lot granny. so i am starving. i'm very excited about this fine mill that you are preparing for us. i had to cook, couldn't when i was growing up, were you responsible for making mills for your siblings and your family were mother
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and daddy now love them. wow. but mother didn't believe that girls should get medication. she wanted me to stay there and take care of the kids washed dish and sweet mop floors and stuff. rather than do school. i just wanted to experience laugh. that's what my dream was. get no jobs creek and i will make something of myself. i have not heard about you. i've never heard you say that you had a consciousness about leaving. it makes me feel like i am leaving your dream in a way, you know what could be that want and desire that you had and didn't get that. that gets transferred to mom and, and amanda and i like as it came to us, we had that opportunity. you know you,
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i'm so grateful for granting i can't tell you the m m is to be able to go to school. it's so meaningful. yes. because everybody doesn't get an opportunity, you know, the oh apple at the wound and a joy and a poem and not of complication. but you cannot know a place without loving hating there and fill in everything in between. something inside you has to crack the lid and the lot. so your eyes and brain and heart can just properly those attempting to portray the region must become immersed in the region in a special kind of way. they must go to the mountains, drive these one and wrote them a certain joe, for a while with folk from the front porches must attend weddings and high school graduation. they must study the history of the place and come to understand them
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a sin and awake. and look at the lands on the faces of the people, the calluses on their hands. they must understand the gestational and generational complexities of poverty and culture. i must stand for a while else. smell the air started the gravestones on the hills, that awake inscriptions of name belong to people. not just not very ah, look in the line. sometimes you have to leave where you came from to find your voice. and other times you have to return to that same place to listen for a deeper understanding. wesley men to purchase 300 years of danish colonization and international interest
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