The problems faced by the region are painfully real, and deserve not to be trivialized or oversimplified in the national spotlight. Today, coal has left Appalachia, as have a host of other industries that brought economic opportunity. To this day, the flavor variations of Mountain Dew often reference the connection to the drink's mountain origins, with names like Mountain Lion and Mountain Holler. Nearlyhalf of the people in Kentucky, and 25 percent of the national population, depend exclusively on well water, posing a threat tonatural resources as well as peoples teeth. Jin Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images It asks very little from the reader. 1974. But Mountain Dew mouth? The town of Appalachia is considered to be a largely intact "era" town of the late 1800s, early 1900s. "Mountain Dew" is a centuries-old mountain slang term for moonshine, which Tennessee-bred creators Barney and Ally Hartman found fitting because their bubbly elixir was initially crafted as a mixer for whiskey in the early 1930s. Its high sugar and caffeine content seem to be habit-forming, with many accounts of Appalachians constantly sipping and carrying bottles everywhere throughout the entire day. It was released on Del Rey's first major-label studio album, Born to Die. This can confuse the viewer who might come across this image of the baby drinking the bright green liquid and see it as a confirmation of a known stereotype. It is "not good" in a decidedly unsexy way, the way other corporate Frankenstein creations like Ho-Hos and Combos are easily tossed into the furnace of public scorn. Brenda makes a delicious desert -- Mountain Dew Apple Dumplings.-- very easy to make and very good .thank you very much for watching! Once a month, a University of Kentucky dentist also joins the group for oral treatment. Opioid addiction, smoking, chewing tobacco, lack of access to municipal water systems, and the necessary preoccupation with getting food on the table over worrying about nutritional value are also having an enormous effect on peoples teeth. Other forces are at play. In January, when an acquaintance who worked on Hillary Clintons campaign touted it on Facebook, I was unable to argue because I had not read it. All rights reserved. of The Whitesburg Conference, Whitesburg, Kentucky. You get a group of 10 or 12 women, theyre going to say things, like one woman I remember, I cant believe that youre still smoking. Vance also ascribes some of his familial dysfunction to the stress of his grandparents move from the hills of home to the industry of Ohio. Very well said indeed.Vance knows nothing at all about Appalachian or Scots Irish culture.His experience is that of any disassociated urban ethnic group filtered and bankrupted by a corrupt academic system that values social promotion.The disrespect of women and moral ambiguity on display in his poorly written value bin book is disgusting,and was promoted in exactly the same Big East / NYC fashion as the recently deceased corporate coaching group NXIVM. At first, I hee-hawed and rolled my eyes. However, this poses a significant problem because, in the eyes of the American health care system, the mouth is separate from the rest of the body. Copyright 2023 Salon.com, LLC. Vance grew up in an Appalachian ex-pat family in Ohio with rough-talking relatives who thought nothing of trashing a store until they got what they wanted, and who regularly communicated by screaming at each other. He also fetishizes his idea of being a hillbilly and the traits he believes go along with that. Poor Law Commissioners. "We are using taxpayer dollars to buy soda for the SNAP program, and we are using taxpayer dollars to rip teeth out of people's heads who can't afford dental care and are on Medicaid," says Dana Singer, a research analyst at the Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department in Parkersburg, W.Va., who wants to see stricter regulations on sales of all sugary beverages in the region. The Appalachian people were denigrated so that they could be exploited because they owned valuable land with natural resources. Various states, from Florida to Tennessee, have proposed bills that would restrict the use of SNAP to buy soda, sugary treats or other unhealthful foods. Prenatal training and preparation was a key part of the centering sessions across the pregnancy period and thereafter. Lunsford is an attorney, however, he is very fond of folk songs. While you may think of " Appalachia " as a region of the southern United States, the full Appalachian Mountains have a massive (not to . While Mountain Dews target audience today might be neon tank top wearing bros and skateboarding teenagers, my Appalachian demographicnamesake and allwere the original consumers. So we were saved and mostly unharmed. Nothing great will ever come from consuming yellow dye #5. Appalachia has a high concentration of these natural voids, including the world's longest. For those who have never had the pleasure of sipping an ice cold can of Mountain Dew, youve probably only heard talk of its vices, of which there are (admittedly) many. In a region long undergoing a cultural and economic crisis, Appalachias thirst for Mountain Dew is perhaps the lesser of many evils. 9K Likes, 328 Comments. All last fall I resisted reading J.D. The problem is, he does not have a new or amazing insight. Growing up in Eastern Kentucky, Mountain Dew (and its diet counterpart, my beverage of choice) was an omnipresent force, its signature emerald-tinged, translucent 20-ounce bottles filling up coolers at backyard barbecues and littering the weed-lined backroads. Ive worried that I wont get work, that I will be perceived as less intelligent and qualified because I occasionally enjoy a soda thats lambasted as the scourge of the soft drink earth. At the University of Maryland dental school, ateam of researchers explored the effect of toothaches in poor Maryland adults like Matello: 44.3 percent of their respondents reported having experienced more than five toothaches in the past 10 years. Appalachian names are often taken as a southern baby name but there are subtle differences. When, in 2006, Todd-Langston got a call from Jeffrey Ebersole proposing to establish a full dental service for pregnant moms, she said it was like a gift from heaven. Four men showed off a massive pit of mud they found. Old woman smoking a pipe, Appalachia, USA, c1917. Appalachians are portrayed as individuals who are unable to get out of their own way problems caused by excessive Mountain Dew consumption. (The city of Cincinnati saw fit to make it illegal to discriminate against someone of Appalachian origin). Appalling already, the state of dental care in America faces even greater challenges with the threat of the Trump-backed American Health Care Act currently being debated in the Senate after passing in the House at the beginning of May. The latter, simply titled "Mountain Dew," was composed in 1920 by Bascom Lamar Lunsford, an attorney in Asheville, N.C. I had been traveling too much, and when I was home, I was still distant. It is not part of hillbilly justice. If his family were acting like violent jerks, its because theyre acting like jerks, not because theyre Appalachian. Pat worked long hours at a lumber mill a few miles down the road. They call each other on behavior like drinking too much soda and then all of a sudden with another group or two, everybodys stopped because something has happened within the group that says, 'This just isnt good.', For UKs Jeffrey Ebersole, programs like this one are policy no-brainers both in terms of cost and disease prevention. Back in 2009, Priscilla Harris, an associate professor at the Appalachian College of Law, issued the first battle cry in the war against Mountain Dew mouth with a legal brief titled "Undoing the Damage of the Dew," which explores how the drink became ingrained in the region's culture. See other posts by Stacy here. Appalachian Mountains. However, as it stands now, dental care is treated separate from health care, launching an epidemic that weighs heaviest on those who need it most the rural poor. It's estimated 26% of preschoolers in Appalachia already have tooth decay. Reproduction of material from any Salon pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. This is the third in a series of posts by Stacy Kranitz for BagNews Originals. For example, many Appalachian names are of Gaelic or Celtic origin (if you are interested in Irish baby names check out our Irish boy's names and Irish girls names posts). And Part 2 explored the link between transportation and healthcare. And Part 2 explored the link between transportation and healthcare. Dozer had collected several people along the way so by the end of the ride, there were 4 of us on the ATV. The term "Appalachia," however, is more of a socio-economic term than it is one of geography. Last week, my tiny county announced the statistics for heroin busts so far in 2015: nine deaths and 76 overdoses in three months. My research into the origins of this initiative led me to Harry Caudill, a small town lawyer from the eastern Kentucky town of Whitesburg. Bill Estep and John Cheves. Or, as Eater puts it, "Mountain Dew is only a sideshow to the heart of the matter.". I find Caudills complicated legacy a reminder that there is a lot more to the evolution of a people than the victimhood that has been placed upon them. Exploring it was simultaneously deeply cathartic and like sticking my hand in an emotional meat grinder. The Appalachian folk song was written in 1928. With 50 percent more caffeine than Coke or Pepsi, Mountain Dew seems to be used as a kind of anti-depressant for children in the hills. The town sprang up after the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and Southern Railroad made a junction there in 1890. They offer the services they can, provide prescriptions for painkillers and antibiotics, and recommend a dental clinic for a follow-up. Thus, patients leave the ER with no long-term solution for treatment. My camera was strapped around my neck, resting against my back. Many lives were lost. Two days later, she tweeted lyrics . They dont scream at each other, they dont fight loved ones or strangers as a way of life. Something went wrong. A Fresh Look at Appalachia50 Years After the War on Poverty Kealey Lowe is a student at Stone Memorial High School. is completely exhausting. Regardless of cultural influences Mountain Dew-mouth or not the dental health epidemic in America is rooted in the historical and political legacy of an unequal system. Like many Americans without dental insurance, it was not until Matello heard a free dental clinic would be held in the town of Salisbury, just 20 minutes away from her home, that fixing the cracked tooth seemed like a possibility. Ive never once had someone without deep mountains connections place a hand on my shoulder and say, "Me too, sister.". People we meet in life can seem at first to represent a stereotype. It's a thing, reports the Salt blog at NPR, and public health advocates in West Virginia and throughout Appalachia say the damage is real and widespread. It is wickedly acidic and (if youre drinking the less aspartame-influenced variety) highly caloric. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. We can identify them in the plaque in blood vessels leading to arteriosclerosis. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Each time I hear it, I feel angryangry and ashamed. Then, I knew I shouldve seen it coming. Photograph taken during Cecil Sharp's folk music collecting expedition: British musician Sharp (1859-1924) and his assistant Dr Maud Karpeles (1885-1976) collected folk songs from the mountain singers of the Appalachians (North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky), between 1916 and 1918. 319K views 8 years ago With little to no job prospects the people living in Appalachia often do not have adequate health insurance. I was still behind Dozer with my arms wrapped around his stomach. View larger map Learn More About Subregions Appalachia Then and Now Here are three more in-depth reviews of Hillbilly Elegy. It declared a radical policy initiative that he believed would put an end to poverty in America. This was solidified during the economic transition that took place with the colonialist coal industries entry into the region at the end of the 19th century. Pat owned a trailer on a street called Tin Can Hollow. If theres a pop culture reference about DMD you need to knowincluding that bopping Lana Del Ray jam and its brief mention in a recent Paul Muldoon poemIm your girl. He cites a 2009 ABC report on Mountain Dew mouth in Appalachia, and the outraged reaction of Appalachians. They want to tackle the problem with policies, including restricting soda purchases with food stamps (now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and currently under debate in Congress). Even if you might not crack open a bottle in your lifetime, I encourage you to take a moment and imagine a highly carbonated, nose-tickling bubble and a tart-sweet, citrusy flavor thats similar to a church picnic punch on steroids. I watched as they trekked back and forth in it, finding great pleasure in turning their ATVs into boats. The distinction between dental care and health care extends to insurance. My consumption of Diet Mountain Dew ensures that Im served a double shot of shamecomplete with Backwoods Barbie stereotypeon a fairly regular basis. Arent there more important factors to consider like physical abuse or abandonment? ------------------------------------------, the link between transportation and healthcare. Mountain Dew Lasagne Recipe: Combine two jars of meatless spaghetti sauce, 12 ounces of lasagne noodles, and 12 ounces of Mountain Dew (or your choice); salt/ pepper as needed. Public health . The sun was setting and flashing red lights from an ambulance and several cop cars were lighting up the sky on the Ohio side of the river. Please enter a valid email and try again. Appalachia this election year: So many stories, so little depth. By now, we've all heard of the health risks posed by drinking too much soda. Appalachia. In the mountains, you dont look away because you remember when the heroin dealer was a second string quarterback. The Coal operators did not give any of the wealth they made through this devastating process back to the region. In the south-east mountains of the United States this word is often used instead of hollow; A small rising valley region between two hills or mountains; often containing a creek. (Note: I have made a couple of minor edits since this piece was first posted.). So we were saved and mostly unharmed. Under current guidelines, any kind of soda of any size can be purchased with a SNAP card even Mountain Dew, which has 170 calories in a single 12-ounce can. The Appalachian Mountains hold some truly terrifying stories.Podcast Episode #308.Download Swamp Dweller Scary Stories:Itunes: https://apple.co/2L7znZpSpotif. It was during this time that Christian Missionaries first spoke of the Appalachian region as ignorant and impoverished. If you try to to think about this, Im . I would probably get fewer dirty looks if I snorted a couple of lines of cocaine every day. Would people feel as open to chiding me or ribbing me about the drink if I were a man? The angry reaction supports the academic literature on Appalachian Americans, he writes, then proceeds to cite exactly one piece of academic literature, a paper three sociologists published in 2000 about how hillbillies learn from an early age to deal with uncomfortable truths by avoiding them., We tend to overstate and to understate, to glorify the good and ignore the bad in ourselves, Vance writes. Mountain Dew, however, remains culturally significant. According to area dentists, one of the main culprits contributing to toothlessness in Central Appalachia is Mountain Dew soda (a PepsiCo product). A little over a year ago, I became obsessed with the concept of shame. "Nothing is moving here. Ive been thinking a lot about the War on Poverty. Shameful or not, no food stuff is more personal to me, more deeply burrowed into my sense of identity than Diet Mountain Dew. 45 min, 20 ingredients. We went up the mountain without a problem; it was the end of summer and the trails were overgrown. Figuring out how to chip away at problems so deeply embedded in a region is astronomically much more complicated than a micro lens shot of a single caffeinated beverage. Appalachia has a distinct culture of sipping soda constantly throughout the day. He mentions his aunt, who had an early abusive marriage, and his mother. The drink is also native to the region. However, clinics are often too crowded to meet the demand. As a defense mechanism, Ive become a trivia expert on the most esoteric facts available about Mountain Dew so I can titter them off as a nervous shield. 28K views, 631 likes, 154 loves, 240 comments, 642 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Mountain Roots: Here's the 36th Episode in my new Exploring Appalachia series! As a memoir of a rough childhood, its fine. But over in Appalachia, the region that stretches roughly from southern New York state to Alabama, the fight against soda is targeting an altogether different concern: rotted teeth. The 4 of us caught the ATV off balance and it flipped. To compensate for the cracked molar on the left side of her mouth, she had simply learned to chew on the right side. It isnt that Appalachians cant face the truth. Diet Mt. I view it, and much reaction to Vances own book, as Appalachian people being tired of hearing that their only story is the negative one. That's according to calculations by Singer, who is working with Harris. In my latest video I discuss folklore and superstitions. I dont really have any answers. However, even in the states that do offer dental benefits, poor patients have difficulty getting appointments. Central Appalachia is No. This article originally appeared on AlterNet. It was, in his eyes, a more intimate, longterm partner than he had become. Between about 1.1 billion and 541 . Within the first hour of knowing him, I watched as he got into three drunken fistfights. The two types of rock that characterize the present Appalachian ranges tell much of the story of the mountains' long existence. My father was one of 11 children, and my mother is one of five. On top of that, without municipal water systems, people rely on well water, which is unfluoridated or they drink more Mountain Dew to quench their thirst. He was the first person to publicly question the coal operators who came to extract valuable natural resources in Appalachia using processes that obliterated the terrain through mountain top removal. It also seems that along the way, he had already been writing something for the conservative outlets like the National Review (whose editor has a glowing blurb on the back cover, as does Chua) that helped promote him and make him the hillbilly whisperer for more mainstream publications. We made our way to the strip mine trails and as we did, we passed Butchs grave. Vance and I are of the same generation. As soon as it aired on February 7, 2016, the Super Bowl ad for Mountain Dew's energy drink "Kickstart" was trending online. The phrase is inherently noxious. Heroes can be villains and villains can provide valuable insight into how to reimagine what we think we know about our own history. But theyre no more the norm than people who arent like that. In this use, it does not relate to any type of demonic or evil activity as has . In both cases, its a prickly briar patch of fact and lore jumbled together. Named after mountain slang for moonshine, Mountain Dew was sold to Pepsi in 1964, where the soda went national. Yes, indeed. For the 379 women enrolled in the study, pre-term birth rate, or PTB, was 6.6 percent against 14 percent for Hopkins County generally in the preceding years. We use cookies to help better serve your experience. He came to believe that Appalachias gene pool had been watered down by inbreeding among what he called dullards who lived on welfare in remote mountain hollers (1). Basic education, says Harris, is also needed: "We also just need to let people know that you can drink these drinks safely, but they can also do harm. Just as the word Appalachia is generally pronounced Ap-pa-LATCH-a in the southern mountains, but more commonly Ap-pa-LAY-cha in the rest of the country, so too is there some dispute over the. Instead, I try to tell the stories of a town full of people who consider neighbors to be like family, a town brimming over with folks who would drive all night to New Orleans if they thought I was ever in trouble. The elderly are affected, too. First there are the most ancient crystalline rocks. You could assign this in high school if it didnt have cuss words. They confer the stigma of economic and even moral failure. I had on a short dress that rode high up my thighs when I mounted the machine. Moonshine is available in a barrage of flavors at most local liquor stores, but it won't be brewed from a hidden still. This is the third and final part of a series on rural health-care challenges. I take out teeth every week that could have been saved with restorative work, he told a reporter forUSA Today. He concluded that poverty is genetic in origin(2) and invited the eugenicist William Shockley to his home in Kentucky Together they proposed to studypoor eastern Kentuckians as part of a research project on inherited intelligence.Cash bonuses would be offered to participants in exchange for sterilization (3). Then when she did all these things [in the group] I said, Thats wonderful! Grease a baking dish with olive oil or butter, then pour on the Mountain Dew sauce mixture until about two inches high. Even today when I discuss drinking it in public, people look at me incredulously as if waiting for a punchline. According to Eater, Mountain Dew was invented by Barney and Ally Hartman, Tennesseans who were looking for a mixer to accompany their whiskey in the 1930s. For Americans who do not have health insurance and need dental treatment immediately, the emergency room remains the only option. (New York: Pergamon) 1977, 6. Brothers Barney and Ally Hartman, who had moved their business from Augusta, GA, to Knoxville in 1932, initially bottled a lemon-lime mixer they jokingly called Mountain Dew, a 19th century nickname for moonshine, for their own after-hours consumption. But did that make him a bad dad? In the special, the term was used as a catchall phrase to describe the poor dental health of children in Appalachia, due to the abundance of sugary drinks. In areas where jobs are scarce, a persons financial security depends on her teeth. On pages 228-229, Vance writes about instability in working-class families, due to relationship instability. We're no strangers to Mountain Dew in the south, or are we? Oklahoma senator concerned about dead babies in his Mountain Dew. Native Americans first began to gather in the Appalachian Mountains some 16,000 years ago. Bascom Lamar Lunsford, born in Mars Hill, North Carolinain 1882, was what amounts to the first Appalachian ethnomusicologist- but not at first. January 15, 2021. Nah man that's brondo you're thinking of, Mountain Dew is mostly caffeine and sugar . The problem isnt lack of doctors or even access to standard OB-GYN service. So even though hospital visits for dental problems cost an enormous amount to the health care system as a wholean estimated $2.7 billion over a three-year period according to one majorstudy people rarely receive the treatment they need. Should I credit all this to their hillbilly heritage? Originally the care of the poor was relegated to the church, which regarded the poor to be of the highest moral status. But, like so many, I feel helpless. In the eyes of so many people, theres no room at the table for consumption of the irony-free profane. 4. According to Eater, Mountain Dew was invented by Barney and Ally Hartman, Tennesseans who were looking for a mixer to accompany their whiskey in the 1930s. The meaning of the name is "mountain thrower" and it has a Sanskrit origin. 2. They, like Vances family and many other Appalachians, came home for regular visits and the annual reunion. A Mountain Dew Code Red, that is. The fact that it IS a narrative is one big reason why his book has gotten the attention it has, when more deserving explanations of Appalachian culture and history have been perhaps overlooked. Don't give up, though. Singer says she would like to see West Virginia and other states in Appalachia try this approach. *Im not an economist, a historian or any kind of academic. Mountain Dew is a drink very closely embedded in the Appalachian culture. My first daycare was just a few doors down. Why would this kind of line-in-the-sand stance about a beverage come hundreds (er, thousands) of cans into a relationship? Vance ignores valid reasons why Appalachians are leery of outsiders telling them who they are because historically, that has always been done through a very skewed lens. I learned about Caudills dark turn while I was traveling in the region. "Here in West Virginia, you see people carrying around bottles of Mountain Dew all the time even at a public health conference," says public health researcher Dana Singer. Welcome to family life for the American hillbilly.. Eighty-two percent of them had periodontal bleeding points and half had already developed recessive pockets in their gums. Thats definitely a no. Mostdental insurance limits annual benefits to between $1,000 and $1,500 per personthis cap has hardly changed since the mid-'80s, despite inflation. With 26 percent of preschool-age kids suffering from tooth decay and 15 percent of young adults extracting a tooth because of erosion, Mountain Dew-mouth in Appalachia has created one of the worst dental health problems in the United States according to alegal brief by Priscilla Harris, an associate professor at the Appalachian College of Law. My dada gentle, 30-year lawyer who likes to describe himself as an "old steady sheepdog"called me a couple of months ago to describe the scene unfolding near his office in my hometown. Join me as I explore Marion. It's Pepsi's #2 cash cow, second only to their flagship beverage, Pepsi, even beating out Diet Pepsi for total sales. Dr. George Kushner, the director of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, explained that he sees ER patients with dental pain on a daily basis. "What Mountain Dew has going for it is that it's high in caffeine and high in sugar," Harris explained. And none of them behave the way Vance describes his family behaving. As the story goes, John F Kennedy read Caudills book and quickly moved to set up the Presidents Appalachian Regional Commission in order to take a closer look at what was happening in Appalachia. /* Add your own Mailchimp form style overrides in your site stylesheet or in this style block. Unless policy and behavior change, were not going to improve the health and its links to systemic health.. To get a sense of what that looks like, check out this picture. CIVIL WAR ERA AND INDUSTRIALIZATION. One of the amazing things about Centering, Todd-Langston said, is when you bring people together on common ground, even though the lower socioeconomic women are the ones that get the most out of this, by bringing them in here, those barriers go away. Oops. It is not dense, it does not use large words or complicated concepts. I saw him pick up and throw several chairs and then punch a friend in the face. The Real Winners of World Press Photo 2014: The Palestinians. Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams, elegantly summed up my decades-long tug of war with how Mountain Dew relates to my identity in a recent interview. Old recipes passed down keep traditions alive, but more coveted. The term conjuring is used by people living in Southern Appalachia (including North Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama, Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia) to describe a practice of folk healing done by members of their remote communities. 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