 after the Vietnam War bemoaned the fact that Appalachian whites, many of them who had fought in the Vietnam War, should be held as accountable for its execution as the northeastern elites who had designed it. All wasps, Webb wrote, were considered to be the same in this environment, as if they had landed together on the same ship at Plymouth Rock and the smart ones had gone to Boston while the dumbest had somehow made their way to West Virginia.