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1. What event does Elizabeth Catte use to mark the timing of her move out of Appalachia six months before a particular event?

In the introduction's opening sentence, Elizabeth Catte states that she and her partner had moved from Tennessee to Texas. Their move had occurred "six months before the 2016 presidential election" (7).

2. Why is Catte's choice of time marker in the introduction's first sentence a significant one?

Catte purposefully points out that the move from Tennessee to Texas undertaken by her and her partner had occurred "six months before the 2016 presidential election" (7). The 2016 election will come to be a defining event within the context of Catte's book about Appalachia's modern and historical identity.

3. What does Catte mean when she names the "clinical" (7) reasons for her move out of Appalachia?

Breaking the reasons for her choice to move back to Appalachia into two categories, Catte classifies one of these reasons as the "clinical" (7) one. Into this category, Catte places her realization that Texas produces just as many pollutants and chemicals harmful to human life as Appalachia does. She and her partner reason, then, that if their health is at risk in both locations, then they may as well be at home.

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