Well, it would seem that holler people by definition are a minority population element anyway. But anything unusual gets public attention and spawns - er, no pun intended - legends. Isn't West Virginia the location of that strange megalithic stuff, and some East Anglia derived witchcraft that then traveled to the Ozarks and from there informed Anderson Feri in its early development? And the Mothman sightings John Keel writes about? So its like, an out of date likely defunct stereotype likely started by the appearance and activities of less than 1% of the population. But if WV is one of a very few places that has that kind of !% or less in its population, it is going to be the place that is thought to be THE location for it, when you could troll the place for years and find nothing like it. That bug eyed look that makes one think of an Innsmouth person ready to make The Change into his abomination shuffling shambling scaly fishy self, goes with goiter and low Iodine, a problem corrected by iodizing table salt long ago. Mary Christine In a message dated 2/27/2008 7:18:26 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: The regional/racial stereotypes that Lovecraft, among other authors, used in their fiction persist. The backwoods and hills of North America must--a storytelling/folkloric imperative-- incorporate some sort of devolutionary rays similar to what Lovecraft suggested. And what has devolved... <<Julianne Moore Movie Casts For Inbred, Albino & Deformed-Looking West Virginians>> **************Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living. (http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/ 2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598)