Posted on 03/21/2010 9:31:37 AM PDT by jay1949
The premiere city of Southern Appalachia is without doubt Asheville, North Carolina. It has to be -- it's the one with the palace, Biltmore House. Since the late 19th century, Asheville has been a travel and resort destination without peer in the region. [Vintage pictures]
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Not to mention it being Thomas Wolfe’s “Altamont!!”
I haven’t been up to Asheville, but I hear that it’s the place the liberals move when they decide they can’t stand conservative Greenville anymore.
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“Asheville . . . the place the liberals move when they decide they can’t stand conservative Greenville anymore”
Asheville certainly has its share of moonbeams, hippies, and assorted wierdos. Something you wouldn’t normally expect up in the hills.
Well, it is a college town, after all.
“Well, it is a college town, after all.”
True enough, though so is Johnson City and one doesn’t see the same assortment of zany characters there.
Asheville is the Haight Ashbury of the Smokies. It is totally out of place. It would be interesting to compare its history to Austin TX, another out of place city. You have to wonder what it was exactly that caused them to become magnets for liberal artsy types. I actually kind of like the liberal artsy culture in some ways — it’s just too bad it’s always tied to statist authoritarianism.
Asheville is the hippy town it has become due to the Northerners who sell off up north and discover they can have a nicer place in NC mountains relatively cheap. - Go 3 miles away from the city and it’s back to normal people who don’t like what Asheville has become.
>You have to wonder what it was exactly that caused them to become magnets for liberal artsy types.
The story I was told was that some moonbat magazine printed an article that Asheville was some kind of “power place” or “place of healing” etc..etc.. Then the rainbow people had a national gathering (illegal) in a national forrest not far from here (which not coincidently turned into a diarreah festival) and many of them enjoyed that so much they decided to stay. When I first moved here around 1980 it was good-old-boy country. Now it’s completely changed but all-in-all there are benefits. The moonbats have brought a taste for better food with them and eating out has improved vastly. The moonbats are annoying but harmless and economically I think it’s been for the best.
boone is a college city also
“boone is a college city also”
Yes, and a pretty place, too.
Yes it is, I worked up there for a few months a couple of years ago.
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It finally got to the point I could actually drive the 550 miles from Norfolk to Knoxville and get home a couple hours sooner. When I'd fly back I either had to fly to Atlanta, DC, or NYC, to catch a connecting flight to Norfolk.
Keep Asheville Weird!
Keep Austin Weird!
The “San Fran” of the Appalachians.
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