Chapter 8: Appalachia

The Appalachia region is a mountainous region in the Eastern U.S. that impedes transportation and promotes isolation. There is not enough flat land for farms to thrive and people to live. The Appalachian Plateau was formed by stream erosion of uplifted horizontal rock beds Moreover, "the Piedmont, stretches almost nine hundred miles from New Jersey into Alabama and is the effective divide between the fall line and the Appalachian Blue Ridge Mountains" (Mayda 209). In contrast, the Los Angeles region has very little in common with the Appalachia region. The one exception is that L.A. is surrounded by mountains but they do not compare to the Appalachian Mountains

The region known as Appalachia