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Thursday, July 05, 2007

Asheville Chosen Best Southern City 

What!? Pinko, commie, socialist Asheville chosen the South's best small city!?

Pinko, commie, socialist "Outside Magazine" did the deed, calling Asheville "an island of liberal alternative culture."

Way to go, you hippies!

// posted by J.W. Williamson @ 7/05/2007 08:37:00 AM

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• 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.


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