Ozark Hillbillies are very keen on education as are the rednecks. Hillbillies are taught to read and write before we enter the school system, and yes, that does make those first few grades pretty boring for us. Hillbillies are a bit stoic, we have strong opinions but don't see the need to ram them down anyone else's throat, very few stills exists and as mentioned before, it's for tradition not for profit. Hillbillies are health conscience for sure, that includes our teeth. Hillbillies do not mate with relatives but we cherish family above all else. There was a time in the sparsely populated hill areas where if a woman became widowed, it was not unusual for one her late husband's brothers to step up and marry her, she's already family and it would not be right to watch a family widow struggle on her own. (That's what I mean by "family is cherished above all else" )


We are usually raised in a baptist based religion. Hillbilly history is immigration. Our ancestors are early immigrants who's American dream was not to live in a filthy crowded city, (cities a century plus ago were filthy, with little or no sanitation systems, even the well to do and snobish pooped in the "sugar pot" and then just dumped it out the window in the morning, an outhouse in the country, far more hygenic)

The bluegrass music is an evolved genre of folk music from the immigrants homeland. Sometimes a blend of German, Irish, English mixed with black slave songs and instruments. I see, I hear true beauty in that.

The nasty stereotype, really don't understand where it came from. Maybe the language set off an impression of ignorance but those with a false sense of superiority over others that are different, but I love the dialect and language of the farmer, the hillbilly, the redneck. It's not how something is said, it's what is said.

Stereotypes are just exaggerated caricatures. Most were created during the height of the immigration to this country where politics and commerce created the most negative and offensive stereotypes to panic and manipulate the population. Everyone was a target based on their homeland, their religion, their culture, their skin color. Political and commercial...nuff said there ya know.

Every culture has it value among us if we are not dumbass and stupid enough to believe in the created stereotype and smart enough to want to learn the history of others different than ourselves.

  QUOTE (Chazzy @ June 3, 2012, 12:03)


It's been quite a few years, since I've seen the Arkansas Traveller. But I think I can point to it and go, 'right there is the Ozark stereo type, Ellie Mae.'

The stereotypes that are always applied to the Brits by the world always make me laugh

We are all either yobby football hooligans or stuck up posh folk sitting and drinking tea and avoiding talking about dirty things...

Well I do like my tea

  QUOTE (josie34 @ June 3, 2012, 22:11)

You probably like cucumber sandwiches, too.

  QUOTE (kamarel @ June 3, 2012, 22:59)
lmfao you guys

  QUOTE (onehornee @ June 4, 2012, 02:11)


Why waste a cucumber cutting it up into slices when it is such much more effective left whole.......

  QUOTE (josie34 @ June 4, 2012, 22:52)


Amateurs.... Glad you are here Josie.

  QUOTE (Iwant2kssuallovr @ June 5, 2012, 00:23)
Another one talking about food!!!! now would that have been a field variety or long english?

Who says we haven't experimented with all of them already.....

  QUOTE (sybianwatcher1 @ June 6, 2012, 21:42)


Syb, think they'd be willing to experiment with all the gourds?

I also want to know what you think the difference is between the two. In my mind its more or less the same, maybe a hillbilly stereotype is a bit less educated and has a still somewhere on their property.

  QUOTE (newbie1011 @ June 2, 2012, 15:43)


Redneck is a part of hillbilly history, it was a labor movement among the workers of the Appalachian people, in protest and solidarity they wore red bandannas around their necks and so they were called rednecks. Accurately, rednecks do not really exist today, it was a historic American event.

Who says we haven't experimented with all of them already.....

  QUOTE (josie34 @ June 7, 2012, 09:43)
. Film at 11?

  QUOTE (perveman @ June 8, 2012, 14:25)


Now that I want to see....