7. Ibid.
8. Ibid., 598.
9. Carl E. Feather, Mountain People in a Flat Land: A Popular History of Appalachian Migration to Northeast Ohio, 1940–1965 (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998), 4.
10. Obermiller, Appalachian Odyssey, 145.
11. Kirby, “The Southern Exodus,” 598.
12. Elizabeth Kneebone, Carey Nadeau, and Alan Berube, “The Re-Emergence of Concentrated Poverty: Metropolitan Trends in the 2000s,” Brookings Institution (November 2011), http://www.brookings.edu/research/ papers/2011/11/03-poverty-kneebone — nadeau-berube.
13. “Nice Work if You Can Get Out,” The Economist (April 2014), http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21600989-why-rich-now-have-less-leisure-poor-nice-work-if-you-can-get-out.
14. Robert P. Jones and Daniel Cox, “Beyond Guns and God.” Public Religion Institute (2012), http://publicreligion. org/site/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/WWC-Report-For-Web-Final.pdf.
15. American Hollow (documentary), directed by Rory Kennedy (USA, 1999).
16. Linda Gorman, “Is Religion Good for You?” The National Bureau of Economic Research, http://www.nber. org/digest/oct05/wii377.html.
17. Raj Chetty, et al., “Equality of Opportunity Project.” Equality of Opportunity.” 2014. http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org. (The authors’ “Rel. Tot. variable” measures religiosity in a given region. The South and Rust Belt score much lower than many regions of the country.)
18. Ibid.
19. Carol Howard Merritt, “Why Evangelicalism Is Failing a New Generation,” The Huffington Post: Religion (May 2010), http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-howard-merritt/why-evangelicalism-is-fai_b_50397i.html.
20. Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (New York: Scribner, 2008).
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