What is Hillbilly?
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Often used as an insult and racial slur against White folks who live in the country. A hillbilly is a person who lives in a remote, rural area in the South, often in the Appalachian (Or sometimes Ozark) Mountains and therefore is isolated and somewhat out of touch with modern culture.
The stereotype of a hillbilly is a person who: Is a White Southerner who owns a shotgun, goes barefoot, wears a worn out floppy hat, drinks moonshine and whiskey which he makes himself, plays the banjo or fiddle, drives old beat up pick up trucks, has bad teeth, is poorly educated, has long a beard, wears worn out clothes and hand me downs, and is happy and content with what they have.
Just because someone is a hillbilly doesn't mean that they fit the hillbilly stereotype listed above.
Contrary to some of the other entries, hillbillies don’t live in trailer parks; they can’t otherwise they wouldn’t be isolated from modern culture and therefore would not be a hillbilly. They don’t eat road kill; many are actually farmers and hunt for their food, they don’t pick it off the side of the road. Also, hillbillies don’t go around sodomizing people, that is a fictional movie Deliverance which has contributed too many of the negative stereotypes.
A Redneck lives in trailer park and goes on the Jerry Springer show; a Hillbilly lives in a shack or cabin out in the middle of nowhere and doesn’t even have a TV.
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Opposite of Metropolitan. Usually found living in sparsley populated areas away from the hustle & bustle of city life. Hillbilly's don't give a shit what city folk think of them. Their apperance & what you think of them is not high on their priority list.
What is important to a Hillbilly?
1. Having a good time with friends & family
2. Not having to answer to anybody
3. Spending time in the outdoors; either in the woods or on the water.
4. Enjoying the finer things in life that money can't buy.
A Modern Hillbilly is NOT:
1. Uneducated (most have college degrees)
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6. poor or live in a shack
The Modern Hillbilly is a true bohemian who is not constricted by what the mainstream considers acceptable. They live by their own rules, similar to the "laws of the land".
Did you see those Hillbillys going to the lake in their jacked-up 'burban whith the new Donzi boat?
Hell YEAH!, lets go get our boat and party with them.
Dude, do you know them?
No, but its cool!
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Apocryphal attribution to isolated denizens of Appalachian Mountains,(Eastern USA) descendants of some of the earliest Scotch-English settlers, who seem to have had some proclivity for naming their children "William" (familiarly "Bill")and some not inconsiderable inclination to incestuous sexual congress. More recently, the term is used to describe any rural resident,especially in the Southern USA and particularly those living in rather rough-hewn conditions, embracing noticably parochial ideologies and a generally hostile attitude.
When the hillbillies moved into the trailer park, they maintained their habits of firing off their revolvers at odd hours and cohabiting with their livestock.
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A resident of the Ozarks.
Contrary to popular belief Hillbillies are no smarter or dumber then a person from the city, though Hillbillies tend to enjoy the simpler pleasures in life, are laid back, have a penchant for homemade liquor, and have their own slang words.
It is a gross misconception that Rednecks and Hillbillies are one in the same, in truth they are not.
Hillbillies in short are the American version of the true Bohemian.
A Hillbilly, and a Redneck are not the same, Hillbillies, don't date family members.
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someone better educated and more entrepenueral than the average resident of Cincinnati....am one
You hillbillies are taking over the place.
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Someone who shoots "varmints" with his/her rifle and squaredances in the wee hours of the morning, often at "hoedowns". They say words lyke "spiffy" and "nifty" and enjoy playing the banjo and harmonica. They typically wear overalls with one of the straps undone, straw hat, and no shoes and have a piece of straw hanging outta their mouth. And when they laugh, they dont say hahaha, they say "ahurhur!"
hillbilly 1: Howdy Bobby joe! Ready to go a varmint huntin'?
hillbilly2: Sho nuff cuzzin!
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Britney Spears and/or her hubby
Britney Spears is a hillbilly
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