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How capitalism underdeveloped Appalachia: The economic truth ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ ignores December 1, 2020 10:27 AM CDT By Michael Berkowitz
Fog hovers over a mountaintop as a cutout depicting a coal miner stands at a memorial to local miners killed on the job in Cumberland, Ky. Kentucky coal miners bled and died to unionize, but the days when King Coal dominated the lives of people here are long gone. The legacy of this exploitative period is missing, though, from Ron Howard s film adaptation of J.D. Vance s Hillbilly Elegy. | David Goldman / AP