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. Consider what every movie star, news anchor and television personality has in common: not height, weight or ethnicity (though there is certainly an enormous amount of room for more diversity). Story after story presents tightened regulations and banning the purchase of soda with food stamps as the lone solution to problems caused by excessive Mountain Dew consumption. I remember this story myself. And Part 2 explored the link between transportation and healthcare. While Harris says that there aren't a lot of comprehensive surveys of dental health in Appalachia, signs of a rampant problem are unmistakable: Some 26 percent of preschoolers in the region have tooth decay, and 15 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds have had a tooth extracted because of decay or erosion. The town of Appalachia is considered to be a largely intact "era" town of the late 1800s, early 1900s. (The city of Cincinnati saw fit to make it illegal to discriminate against someone of Appalachian origin). Native Americans first began to gather in the Appalachian Mountains some 16,000 years ago. He uses this word over and over, beating it into the readers consciousness. That's because the ABC special took great pains to show the effects of poverty on children in the Appalachian region a territory that stretches from around southern New York state to Alabama and coined a term, "Mountain Dew Mouth," which would be repeated in stories about Appalachian health care for years to come. They confer the stigma of economic and even moral failure. According to dentists, one of the main culprits is Mountain Dew soda. To get a sense of what that looks like, check out this picture. Today most of the time the superstitions are said in a joking manner. At first, I hee-hawed and rolled my eyes. Appalachia this election year: So many stories, so little depth. The meaning of the name is "mountain thrower" and it has a Sanskrit origin. The Appalachian Mountains are nearly 2000 miles long. For a time, I thought I could head the scolding off at the pass by making fun of myself first or displaying some arcane knowledge. And there's another reason why soda mouth is so pervasive in Appalachia, Harris says: the region's distinct culture of sipping soda constantly throughout the day. Appalachia is an ancient land - one of the oldest mountain systems on Earth. See other posts by Stacy here. Chaotic people beget chaos. He lived in a trailer and was occasionally put in jail for petty non-violent crimes. The Appalachians are the oldest mountain range in North America. As she waited to have teeth removed at a free clinic in Jonesville, Virginia, Emma Marsee told Mary Otto, the author of "Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America", that people only want a healthy-looking individual taking care of them. Lunsford is an attorney, however, he is very fond of folk songs. Just dont read it and think you understand Appalachia. Low-birth-weight infants also dropped by slightly more than half of state and national norms. If you calculate gum tissues inside and outside of the teeth its an area the size of the palm of your hand. With new Mountain Dew flavors seeming. As if I was living in some sort of divinely staged cosmic play, my theoretical interest in shame came home to roost shortly after my exploration began one Sunday afternoon at home in New Orleans. Oops. A problem as common as gingivitis (excess plaque) can result inserious health problemssuch as heart disease, diabetes, or cancer. The coal operators, who came from elsewhere to buy the land, blew up the mountains. It was not until the Affordable Care Act passed under President Obama in 2010 when Medicaid gave dental care to children under 19. Weeks later, he reported finding syringes in the street. 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. Appalachia People sometimes call it the water of the south. Part 1 covered diabetes in Appalachia. Without insurance, people often go years without seeing a dentist. In 1962 Caudill published an essay in the Atlantic titled,The Rape of Appalachia. Mountain Dew is mountain slang for "whiskey"; the phrase appears in Irish folk songs from the late 19th century and in an American folk song protesting Prohibition. The Appalachians are one of the three major mountain ranges in North America, alongside the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada. Pat made sure that all guests were taken care of. (function($) {window.fnames = new Array(); window.ftypes = new Array();fnames[0]='EMAIL';ftypes[0]='email';fnames[1]='FNAME';ftypes[1]='text';fnames[2]='LNAME';ftypes[2]='text';fnames[3]='MMERGE3';ftypes[3]='dropdown';}(jQuery));var $mcj = jQuery.noConflict(true); Stacy Kranitz A Fresh Look at Appalachia50 Years After the War on Poverty Kealey Lowe is a student at Stone Memorial High School. The high levels of consumption of sugary drinks, like. For me, beginning to think about (and talk about) shame as an emotion was like searching for a word thats been on the tip of your tongue for ages and then comes to you like a thunderbolt in the middle of washing dishes or when youre nodding off to an X-Files rerun. "Belle, I swear to God, it snowed eleven inches today," my dad sighed. Well-written review; thank you. So we were saved and mostly unharmed. More recently, whats driven home the jerry-rigged wiring between Mountain Dew and Appalachia is the use of the phrase "Mountain Dew Mouth" to describe the poor oral hygiene habits in the area which have led to widespread gum disease and tooth decay. 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. In fact I did photograph a young man giving his baby Mountain Dew at Pats house. Exploring it was simultaneously deeply cathartic and like sticking my hand in an emotional meat grinder. The Bell Witch (who is thought to be a woman named Kate Batts) was supposedly cheated in a land purchase by John Bell, the patriarch of the . is completely exhausting. "If we aren't gaining any ground, isn't it time to revise our strategy?" Here are three more in-depth reviews of Hillbilly Elegy. It asks very little from the reader. In 2013, only 34 percent of general dentists accepted Medicaid patients, according toPew. . Oral, chronic infection untreated is getting into the bloodstream 24 hours a day, seven days a week, seeding systemic circulation. The vast majority of doctors lack the knowledge and tools to treat dental ailments. 2. 5. *Im not an economist, a historian or any kind of academic. While some people in this region may refer to the soda as "Mountain Dew," it is not accurate to say that all people from Appa. In that same exodus, several of my mothers uncles moved to Ohio and Detroit for work. Many Appalachians agree with Derek Mullins of Whitesburg, Kentucky, when he referred to President Lyndon B. Johnson's 1960s War on Poverty, which was launched in Inez, Kentucky. The problem isnt lack of doctors or even access to standard OB-GYN service. At 10.4 percent last year, the county's . CIVIL WAR ERA AND INDUSTRIALIZATION. According to the federal government, more than 50 million Americans live in areas officially designated asDental Health Professional Shortage Areas, and must travel hundreds of miles to get help. 3. That is what brutes do. A Mountain Dew Code Red, that is. Id like to think if you cut me open a little Diet Mountain Dew would be right there in my bloodstream, hovering just below the surface, like the homesickness that never quite goes away. Before being bought by PepsiCo, Mountain Dew was invented in Tennessee in the heart of Appalachia. And yet, as Priscilla Harris, an associate professor at the Appalachian College of Law told NPR, battling a drink that has become so ingrained in the culture of the region is not easy. The Appalachian Mountains stretch from the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador to northern Alabama and Georgia. In areas where jobs are scarce, a persons financial security depends on her teeth. According to a 2012 study by Yale's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, the federal government is spending $1.7 billion to $2.1 billion on soda purchases through SNAP. I had on a short dress that rode high up my thighs when I mounted the machine. In the eyes of so many people, theres no room at the table for consumption of the irony-free profane. This level of judgement has only heightened from year to year as Ive settled into a career as a food writer. But what exactly did that mean? "What Mountain Dew has going for it is that it's high in caffeine and high in sugar," Harris explained. As a memoir of a rough childhood, its fine. 277. Dew Baby". 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. In the mountains, you cant look away because theres nowhere to turn a blind eye. The two smarter passengers bailed during the flip but I was still hanging on to Dozer with the camera wrapped around my neck as I fell to the ground. Poor Law Commissioners. And in an impoverished part of the country, where the majority of residents either go hungry or receive government aid for food, public health advocates are calling for a policy overhaul to address the problem of rotted teeth and gum disease in Appalachia. Poverty is much greater in Central Appalachia than the other regions of Appalachia and about twice that of the U.S. as a whole. Use of thesesubstances is rampant in Appalachia; a single Kentucky county filled prescriptions for over 2 million doses of painkillers last year, which is about 150 doses for every man, woman and child. Its also a dramatic story. 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. We told them dont put Mountain Dew in a baby bottle, dont put that baby to sleep with juice, dont let people kiss that baby, to prevent bacteria being transferred, Almon said. If you had an abscess the size of the palm of your hand youd get something done about it.. "Students tell us it tastes best, and it's a habit." I dont really have any answers. In my latest video I discuss folklore and superstitions. (Farmland is even lighter than usual in this image because the fields are fallow after the harvest.) He cites a 2009 ABC report on "Mountain Dew mouth" in Appalachia, and the outraged reaction of Appalachians. Today, theres a Mountain Dew to suit every tastefrom Code Red (cherry) to Baja Blast (lime)and enough generic knockoffs with names like Mountain Lion, Mountain Lightning and Mountain Holler to really put an exclamation point on the rural connection. Eighty-two percent of them had periodontal bleeding points and half had already developed recessive pockets in their gums. Appalachian Mountains. Some 67 percent of West Virginians age 65 or older have lost six or more teeth owing to tooth decay or gum disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In October, I went to a mayoral forum and the women behind me were talking about it I mean, hes from there, so he must know I did not read it. The ties that bind know no distance. After getting an x-ray and having the tooth extracteda procedure that would have cost from $600 to $800 in a regular dentist's office Matello left the clinic, wondering why people who work hard and put faith in their government for help are obligated to endure such demeaning treatment. Appalachia has a distinct culture of sipping soda constantly throughout the day. are in the service sector, yet these jobs are hard to come by without a certain degree of oral health. I think it valuable for us to question how we arrive at the meaning of poverty. And by quite a wide margin, one might add. Poor Law Amendment Act, 1841. Oklahoma senator concerned about dead babies in his Mountain Dew. Obesity. Were on the 4-wheeler in the dark and we are coming down this hill. 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. This is due to the influence of Scottish and . Perhaps most shocking was how poor the womens general oral health was at the start of the study. 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. 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. Packed with poems and prose, book reviews, science, and exciting exploits from around the globe, Appalachia delivers inspired stories of adventure, redemption, and the outdoors. Heroes can be villains and villains can provide valuable insight into how to reimagine what we think we know about our own history. Sarah Baird, a writer who grew up in Eastern Kentucky, recentlywrote about the importance of the drink to her sense of identity, saying, Its not just a beverage its a portable sense of home.. of The Whitesburg Conference, Whitesburg, Kentucky. A little over a year ago, I became obsessed with the concept of shame. He invited everyone to his home to celebrate the end of a long workweek, every week. Nah man that's brondo you're thinking of, Mountain Dew is mostly caffeine and sugar . The presentation of a drastic policy overhaul as the solitary option is a little dehumanizing, and fails to take notice of the deeply rooted social norms of the region (read: Outsiders, dont fucking tell us what to do). "Nothing is moving here. Folklore & Superstitions in Appalachia. You could assign this in high school if it didnt have cuss words. THE APPALACHIAN Mountains of eastern North America comprise a north to south-tending range that extends for 1,600 mi (2,500 km) from the Gaspe Peninsula in Atlantic Maritime CANADA to northern ALABAMA in the UNITED STATES.Uplifted by the collision of continents ancestral to North America and Africa 270 million years ago, the Appalachian Mountains are the oldest mountain range in North America. The elderly are affected, too. 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. 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. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Your email address will not be published. The maternal death rate in southern Appalachia was 12.7 per 100,000 births, compared with rates of 15.1 per 100,000 for the entire rural United States and 16.3 per 100,000 in the nation as a whole. We stopped along the way and enjoyed beer with others who were out recreating. They, like Vances family and many other Appalachians, came home for regular visits and the annual reunion. ------------------------------------------, the link between transportation and healthcare. According to a report from WiseG About Us The Region also comprises three federally recognized and five state recognized Native American Tribal Communities, with Tribal entities in Appalachian Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, New York, and North Carolina. Appalachia. If you try to to think about this, Im . When I moved away from home, it became very clear that I should be ashamed of drinking Diet Mountain Dew (my parents and I still lovingly abbreviate it as "DMD" in text messages). Kentucky is also the state with the most smokers, followed closely by West Virginia, according to aGallup study. Sorry, but no. Appalachia isnt a pity case, and Mountain Dew is only sideshow to the heart of the matter. Brushing Teeth 'Too Painful' Picking on Diet Mountain Dew was a surefire way to get my attention and cut me to the quick. Sitting at my kitchen counter with DMD in hand while my then-boyfriend concocted an intricate lunch, without lifting his eyes a gauntlet was thrown: "You have to stop drinking Diet Mountain Dew. I would see a lot of kids who had a mouth full of rotting teeth, Dr. Edwin Smith, a traveling dentist who drove his mobile dental truck for 12 years throughout Kentucky, toldCNN last September. 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. Over the next six weeks I returned regularly, befriending the extended group of people that spent time at Pats house. But Vance thinks that outrage is Appalachian people being unwilling to take an honest look at Appalachias problems. Mostdental insurance limits annual benefits to between $1,000 and $1,500 per personthis cap has hardly changed since the mid-'80s, despite inflation. Other forces are at play. is dedicated to the analysis of news photos and media images. 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. Four men showed off a massive pit of mud they found. 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. Though pain and discomfort are unfortunate enough, lack of dental care presents other, more enduring problems. The lights, claim the legend, are the ghosts of grieving women still searching the mountainside for the bodies of fallen warriors. The arrival of enslaved Africans in the area dates back to the 16th century. MADISONVILLE, Ky. . Just, turn off your brain before you read this post, folks. The Appalachians are among the oldest mountains on Earth, born of powerful upheavals within the terrestrial crust and sculpted by the ceaseless action of water upon the surface. "It makes no sense to be paying for these things twice.". But since the 14th century, poverty as a label has been used to ostracize certain people in society (5). We use cookies to help better serve your experience. For Appalachians, a sense of place and of home seem particularly important, yet from the 1940s to 1960s, an estimated seven million immigrated north into urban areas in search of work, only to be met with widespread prejudice against any Appalachian-speaking mountain speech. Grease a baking dish with olive oil or butter, then pour on the Mountain Dew sauce mixture until about two inches high. 2. The phrase is inherently noxious. Nonetheless, the factors that contribute to poor dental health are not simply Mountain Dew; they are not even specifically linked to Appalachia. The 4 of us caught the ATV off balance and it flipped. Mammoth Cave in west-central Kentucky spans 420 milesmore than twice the size of the second-longest,. He had downed 4 more beers since we left Pats house, so thats 24 beers. Sometimes there were drunken fights. 1 in the nation in toothlessness. And she expects that number to grow as jobs in the region continue to disappear. 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 the wealth gap continues to increase, teeth represent the dividing line between the classes. The seemingly relentless desire to perpetuate negative regional stereotypes (rotting teeth! 4. After Kennedys death and Johnsons announcement, millions of government dollars were doled out to initiatives that would solve these problems and turn America into the Great Society it was meant to be. Then, I knew I shouldve seen it coming. I learned about Caudills dark turn while I was traveling in the region. */. 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. Copyright 2023 Salon.com, LLC. Both sodas and energy drinks, he says, "are more damaging than food.". Glimmering pearly whites have long been a symbol of social and financial success in America. Nationally, the rate of infant mortality was 211.1 per 100,000, but it was higher in five of six southern Appalachian states (all except Tennessee). This legend centers around the Bell family. January 15, 2021. I have 26 first cousins, not counting step-cousins, second cousins, etc. 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. Vance and I are of the same generation. A study published in theNation Bureau of Economic Research found that a missing tooth can result in a loss of $720 of earnings (and178 million peopleare missing at least one tooth). The journal comes out twice a year and has been a tradition of inspired writing since 1876. It's sort of like folks don't really believe them, but since their parents or grandparents said them they say them just in case they might be true . At this point, I should probably make this clear: Im no Mountain Dew apologist. Should I credit all this to their hillbilly heritage? We saw that our women werent getting preventative [dental] screening. The latter, simply titled "Mountain Dew," was composed in 1920 by Bascom Lamar Lunsford, an attorney in Asheville, N.C. Vance has chosen the version of his life to tell, and he chooses to emphasize what fits his narrative. To paraphrase a tweet from author David Joy, you can read Hillbilly Elegy. 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. Employer-provided plans assuming the patient has a job and the job offers a plancan exceed $500 a year or more and do little to ease the burden when other concerns take priority. By now, we've all heard of the health risks posed by drinking too much soda. Its gross." Sixty-five percent of our women are on Kentucky Medicaid, Todd-Langston, manager of the Trover Center for Women's Health, told me. Social Darwinist thinkers in the late 18th century and early 19th century influenced attitudes towards poverty during the emergence of capitalism (6). Nothing great will ever come from consuming yellow dye #5. Follow us on Instagram (@readingthepictures) and Twitter (@readingthepix), and subscribe to our newsletter. In Kentucky, the state with highest proportion of adults under 65 without teeth, Smith has witnessed the extremes ofMountain Dew-mouthtoddlers with baby teeth filled with cavities, kids who won't brush their teeth because of inflamed gums, and teenagers who have pulled out their own rotting teeth with pliers. He was unhappy. Central Appalachia is No. Between about 1.1 billion and 541 . It was officially developed in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the mid-1900s, but it has ties to the wheat and rye distilled by Irish immigrants who settled in the region as coal miners during the. A culture in crisis.. Over a series of months, a perfect storm of books, lectures and wee-small-hours conversations revealed to melike peeling back the layers of an onion (weepy eyes and all)that the feeling I had called so many other things (embarrassment, pigheadedness, discomfort, willfulness) was shame at its core. Dozer had had 20 beers that day and I remember that it was muggy and hot out, he was super sweaty, and my hands were kind of slipping along his body. ", Beneath all the systemic diseases linked to bad oral health, Ebersole argued, is a disastrous healthcare system in which oral health is considered a luxury. Letter to William Shockley. It is, however, a drink thatfor better or worseties me to my home. It turned out that just behind Pats trailer was an old reclaimed strip mine that had been turned into ATV trails for recreational use. By sa smith on January 26, 2012. Being violent is not a symptom of Appalachianness. I said I hadnt really noticed as he shook his head. On pages 228-229, Vance writes about instability in working-class families, due to relationship instability. Ive never once had someone without deep mountains connections place a hand on my shoulder and say, "Me too, sister.". Copyright 2023 Salon.com, LLC. "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. Dentists have noticed that the toll soda takes on teeth can resemble the damaging impact of meth. No one is all good or all bad, but family life for most American hillbillies I know is not how Vance, wielding his overly broad brush, describes it. I would probably get fewer dirty looks if I snorted a couple of lines of cocaine every day. 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. Chaos begets chaos. These stories grew out of reporting assignments for Kaiser Health News. Prenatal training and preparation was a key part of the centering sessions across the pregnancy period and thereafter. 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. Identity crisis: without coal, who will we be? 5. The beverage industry has repeatedly challenged claims that its products are destroying teeth. 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. In many regions of Appalachia there is a major decline in dental health, many speculate that this is due to the numerous financially challenged families and individuals; however, many dentists believe that the true culprit is Mountain Dew. It is wickedly acidic and (if youre drinking the less aspartame-influenced variety) highly caloric. He mentions that she pushed him to write this, apparently recognizing that claiming his Appalachian heritage as an obstacle to overcome would sell. Appalachia has a distinct culture of sipping soda constantly throughout the day. Mountain Dew bottles by Shutterstock/Darios. For 10 years, Otto researched and conducted interviews about oral health in America, traveling across the country attending beauty pageants and clinics, talking to dentists and patients alike. It isnt that Appalachians cant face the truth. 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. 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. 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. Elbio. He also fetishizes his idea of being a hillbilly and the traits he believes go along with that. Growing up in Eastern Kentucky, Mountain Dew was not a novelty, not an ironic goofjust simply a way of life. 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