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Agreed there...Gainesville, Missouri is practically on the border of Northern Arkansas. There are TONS of Hillbilly towns in Northern Arkansas. Probably the most scary hillbilly town I've ever been to would have to be Berea, KY....I found myself surrounded on all sides by rednecks with guns in old Chevy pick-up trucks (shivers)...I ate at the Cracker Barrel then hightailed my ass out of there
Berea suprises me. We stopped in there on the way to Gatlinburg and I found it to be wonderful.
Berea suprises me. We stopped in there on the way to Gatlinburg and I found it to be wonderful.
Hey...missymom...maybe my experience was something out of the ordinary..but it did happen...they could have been from other parts of Kentucky....rednecks do travel, yes?
There's Amish towns in Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania that are almost completely removed from society. And then inbreeding goes on among the Fumdamentalist LDS communities that practice polygamy, especially in Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona.
The book Under the Banner of Heaven is an amazing account of the LDS church and what goes on in Hildale and Colorado City. This country still has far enough out of the way places for this sort of thing to go on.
Most people live in mainstream American, whether they want to admit it or not, and there are things happening around us off the beaten path that, every once in awhile, jump up and shock us.
I've discovered that if you're friendly to people in these "scary" hillbilly towns, are not condescending or superior, then they return the favor.
Berea, Kentucky? A college town? They were probably professors who hunt on the weekends. Don't do anything to tick 'em off, and they'll leave the guns in the gun racks.
I have relatives outside of Uniontown, Pa and we have to pass through a town called Point Marion. I recall filling my car up at the local gas station (it's no longer there) and the locals just kind of creeped me out. Also the town looks like something from the Wild West. The way they drove in that area was weird too. For a rural area, they are very aggressive when driving. But once we got to Uniontown (12 miles away) it was normal. It should be noted that although Point Marion is 2 miles from the WV border, a state mentioned in the original post, Point Marion is nothing like the area it borders. Point Marion is its own world.
There's Amish towns in Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania that are almost completely removed from society.
Yeah, but the Amish, although isolated, are at least are pretty benign and pacifistic. They're not gonna bend you over and make you squeeeeeeel like a pig!
Yeah, but the Amish, although isolated, are at least are pretty benign and pacifistic. They're not gonna bend you over and make you squeeeeeeel like a pig!
There are also Amish towns in Missouri that are similar....however the Amish are not nearly as numerous here as in Indiana and Ohio...those are Amish Country.
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