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# Appalachia in vivid colour
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/appalachia-in-vivid-colour/
- Published: 2008-05-22T17:05:22.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:40:33.000Z
- Author: openUSA Openusa
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:41

Following our posts in recent days on [race in the Appalachian primary contests](http://www.opendemocracy.net/usa/blog/kentucky%5Frace%5Frural), this al-Jazeera video offers a glimpse of the kind of obstacles that lie before a politics that seeks to transcend race.

Is this selective demonisation? How easy is it to exaggerate the pitch of racist passions in the impoverished corners of Appalachia?