Abstract
Scholars and pundits have asserted that the United States has regions and pockets that serve as hotbeds of traditional gender roles. Through quantitative techniques, this analysis explores whether Appalachian college students differentiated themselves from others on a litany of different gender role measures (n = 508). Ultimately, Appalachian college students failed to distinguish themselves in the Feminist Perspectives Scale, the Modern Sexism Scale, Attitudes toward Rape Victims Scale, and the Sexual Experiences Scale. In fact, the only statistically significant measures found that Appalachians were less likely to know school acquaintances who were the survivors of sexual violence, thus implying that Appalachians did not distinguish themselves by their "rural distinctiveness" with regard to gender roles.
