The Appalachian Region

Legislative ARC approval According to the defined area, along the backbone of the Appalachian Mountains from New York in the south of Appalachian Region North Mississippi, the area is 205,000 square miles. It includes parts of West Virginia state and other states in 12 states: Virginia, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee: 42% of the region's population is rural and the population proportion is 20%

Once dependent on mining, forestry, agriculture, chemical industry and heavy industry once economic apparatia has recently become more diversified, including manufacturing industry and professional services. Appalachia travels a long way 50 years: 17% poverty rate in 1960 to 16.7% between 2012 and 2016. Decreased from the region's high poverty count of 1960 295-2012 (the average of five times more in the US is poverty rate) - 93

These results from the widespread poverty of the region on one economic comparison: While communities still need infrastructure, such as roads, water supply and sewer systems, some communities have succeeded and economic We realize diversification. Considering the size and diversity of the area, the contrast is not surprising. Includes counties of 13 states 420. Extended 1000 miles from Southern New York with a population of more than 250,000 in Northeast Mississippi

According to the definition of the Appalachian Regional Committee, it consists of a geographic area that includes 13 states Appalachian territory in 420 counties. State partnership - The Appalachian Regional Committee (ARC) is an effort to promote federal government's economic development. ARC consists of the President and the 13 Appalachi governor appointed by the Federal Co-Chair of composition. Local participation by providing Multi County Regional Development Zone. There are 13 states with territories: Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia State of West Virginia . You can find the complete list of all eligible 420 counties on the ARC website

The South Appalachian region is mainly defined as mountain. In this way the boundaries are blurred and have different definitions for different purposes. In this discussion, the South Appalachian Mountains (Figure 1), including West Virginia, South West Virginia, East Kentucky and Tennessee in the Northeast, North Carolina State and South Carolina in the West, Alabama in the North Georgia State. This is mainly the social definition of the Appalachian Regional Committee (1973) and climbers and other examples of studies with Rangers (Mastran and Lowerre 1983), below. But their common characteristics and all parts of the South Appalachian mountains can be explained as part of the identity of other regions and nations such as the region need to study the whole South Appalachian mountain range. In addition to the mountain landscape, these areas have a common history, alternating between prehistoric cultural exchanges and isolation