u/Human_Situation_2641

What were Team Avatars reasons for joining and working with Korra? Or do they change through the seasons?

I get that American "hilbillies" isn't a salient oppressed group, but acting like this is a vague metaphor for a minority culture or interchangeable example of resistance to oppression is pretty frustrating.

Like many oppressed people (including Romani) Appalachians have a history of being maligned and exploited, with traditions of cultural preservation through music and strict family networks.

Double-barreled names like Betty Fae, Ida Lou, and Sarah Jean are a regional naming tradition, and the ballads referenced- like "Barbara Allen" and "Billy Boy" are regional folk songs.

Linguistically, Appalachian speech has its own distinct cadence and aphoristic style, that the Covey use.

Music and ballads are key to Appalachian culture- and the Covey's, instruments, performance traditions, and songs are a a specific type of folk ballad with a really deep, rich, and multiracial history.

Also, understanding this as a real culture- and not a metaphor- adds so much to the story. Many of the songs preformed and referenced by the Covey are real songs. There is an entire cannon of Appalachian "Murder Ballads" that tell stories of women falling for men, and getting killed/ vanishing. There are references to historical American armed uprisings against authoritarian rule. There is a reason the Covey are pulling from European poems and ballads. There's a large history of tri-racial "olive skinned" melungeon communities.