There are legitimate connections between blacks and Appalachian whites, that Barack Obama can tap into.
Recently, Obama has been getting a bevy of important Appalachian "Street cred" endorsements from, Legendary consultant, Mudcat Saunders, Dukes of Hazzards "Cooter-aka Ben Jones, and Bluegrass legend, Ralph Stanley; all support Obama.
Author, Ron Rash, is a Appalachian original himself. He is an author and a poet, who hails from the deep mountains in Appalachia, who has some salient advice for Barack Obama.
His current Book is titled Serena (no not the Tennis player). It's a story of two Bostoner's that came to the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina during the late 1920's, to start a timber fortune and a better life.
In the article, written by Kathleen Parker (yes the Palin critic), he gives some salient advice to Barack Obama, gives a brief history of Appalachia and it's people and also offers a moving stump speech (sort of) for Obama.
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