>>1353515>>1353524>>1353531>>1353543Appalachia is not the South. It's its own cultural region seperate from that of the Lowlands, where "Southern" culture actually comes from. Any 'Southern' feeling in Appalachia infiltrated in from the lowland Anglo garbage people.
After the Highland Clearances evicted them from there homes, these Ulster Scots moved to the wilds of Western Pennsylvania. They really aren't very good farmers, so they chose rye whiskey as their main export and cheif currency. Daddy government did not like this, raised a massive army to get them to start paying taxes in what became known as the bloodless 'Whiskey Rebellion'. After this, they moved south along the Blue Ridge into the mountainous regions of Western VA, NC, GA, east TN,and KY, north AL now mostly cleared of Cherokee and Choctaw, where the government wouldn't fuck with them. They mostly didn't buy the land, just kind of settled it. Here they became the Scots-Irish, the hill people. Property disputes were common and often perpetuated by clan warfare. Corn whiskey replaced Rye. Daddy governments began selling off the land they lived on for timbering and later mining, they just continued to squat until force of arms made them leave, where they would simply move to a nearby patch of vacant land.
Source- 'Our Southern Highlanders' Horace Kephart
>Tldr: you're dealing with an extremely insular anarchistic anachronistic culture that has a tenuous grasp of property rights but has been on the land longer than you. Now add the genocide of opiod addiction into that mix. Conflicts WILL crop up and violence is golden. 
