High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Appalachian Regional Commission defines the Appalachian Region as a 205,000-square-mile (530,000 km2) region the follows the Appalachian Mountains from southern New York to northern Mississippi. It includes all of West Virginia and parts of 12 other states: Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Forty-two percent of the Region's population is rural, compared with 20 percent of the national population. The Region's economy was once highly dependent on mining, forestry, agriculture, chemical industries, and heavy industry. In recent times it has become more diversified and now includes a variety of manufacturing and service industries. According to the Commission, one in three Appalachians lived in poverty in 1965. Thankfully by 2008 this rate has decreased to 18 percent. The number of counties considered economically distressed had decreased...

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