Am i a hillbilly?

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Do you have to be born in appalachia to be a hillbilly? Or do you just have to be born in the hills of the south

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  • PurpleHoneycomb
    2 years ago

    The term hillbilly has, for the most part, been watered down to mostly mean the same thing as redneck. At least from a general linguistics perspective.

    On a technical level I believe you essentially just have to be from a rural, isolated community in the hills. The term is most commonly used to describe people from Appalachia for obvious reasons.

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    • Meowypowers
      2 years ago

      Redneck is a hateful word. Hillbillies are folks that live way outside of the cities. There are plenty in Pennsylvania and New York as much as there are in rural Mississippi or rural flanders Belgium.

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  • [Old Memory]
    2 years ago

    Being like that depends on your personality more than where you were born.

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    • 1WeirdGuy
      2 years ago

      But then they arent real hillbillies tho right? A real hillbilly lives in the hills i thought

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      • LloydAsher
        2 years ago

        Oddly enough every time I hear hill Billy I think of swamps. Maybe I'm mixing in cajun redneck for some reason.

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  • LloydAsher
    2 years ago

    Have you ever used duct tape to fix a wound? you might be a hillbilly.

    Do you have 2-4 broken and rusty cars in your yard because of its dubious value? You might be a hillbilly.

    Do you play the banjo? If so I wanna learn, seems like a cool string instrument to learn.

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  • freakyman69
    2 years ago

    It has more to do with your beliefs and how you act than the actual location of your birth.

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  • Somenormie
    2 years ago

    You could be.

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  • ThatOneGuyYouNeverWantToMeet
    2 years ago

    "Do you have to be born in appalachia to be a hillbilly?"

    That's like saying do you have to be born in NY to be a city slicker, the Appalachia is just the NY of the sticks (I should know, I was born & raised there). So yes, you can be a hillbilly while not being born in Appalachia.

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