Yes... and some weird too: I've closed my 2nd book in 1984 - by 1975, ALL the adult women had left to Ohio ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ something to do with the Women's Liberation Movement?
Ha. Ohio is real, though. From about 1910 to 1960 millions of people left the coalfields for factory work up north: rubber in Akron, Dayton, Cincinnati, the car plants in Detroit and Flint. The mines were laying off, the plants were hiring, and once somebody had a job up there they sent for their kin. Folks said the schools taught readin', writin', and Route 23. Every women gone by 1975 is a stranger result than the history, though. I'll look at why the book sent the women and not the men.
Thanks again for your lights. And the much appreciated links to Wikipedia & appalachian-english.library.sc.edu!
Side note: I'm not from your country, nor is English my native language therefore my wording may sound weird.