/lit/ - Literature

I want to write a parody of Appalachia. Basically, a college student has decided to return to his hometown to gather material for his thesis on rural Appalachian culture. His intent is to put a spotlight on the poverty, ignorance, and corruption of this downtrodden region. He has this haughty idea of becoming a sort of, saintly spokesman, for Appalachia.

When he gets there, however, he remembers that Appalachia is far more erratic than the gentrified city he's been living in. He's been gone too long and forgotten his roots, and he realizes this as he interviews the more eccentric hillbillies in the area. There are chapters dedicated to these colorful characters:

A hapa offspring of a mail-order Filipino woman and white Appalachian man. He's a Filipino Nationalist manager at the local retail chain store, who refuses to speak English and has a burning hatred for the white man while also living in a region with 90% whites.

An obese 39 year old mother with 9 children, 3 being black, who survives off food-stamps, selling opioids, and feeds her family by ordering at local fast food chains and then coming back with the food demanding a refund and a fresh order, as she's found a dead rat inside her bag (placed by her, obviously).

A local KKK group where every member is actually in the FBI, but unaware that each other is an undercover agent.

A white supremacist who won't join the aforementioned KKK, since everyone knows they're all FBI. At the end of his chapter he threatens suicide unless the protagonist says The Confederacy wasn't about slavery.

A hermit family deep in the mountains that believes Prohibition is still a thing and runs their own illegal moonshine distillery.

Etc. It's not fully fleshed out, but these are some of the ideas.