Appalachia Is Not Just West Virginia —The Truth About A Region Most People Get Wrong #shorts

Añadido: 2026-06-05

[00:00:00]Most people think Appalachia is just West Virginia. It is not. Appalachia spans from Maine all the way down to northern Mississippi. It covers approximately 206,000 square miles.

[00:00:12]And it is home to more than approximately 26 million people. That is not a hollow. That is not a backwater.

[00:00:19]That is a region the size of a nation with its own language, its own music, its own food, its own history.

[00:00:27]And yet somehow the rest of the country still thinks it knows everything about us from a two-hour movie and a handful of jokes. 25 million people. Learn the geography before you form the opinion.

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