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Old 09-27-2011, 10:21 AM
 
Location: Michigan
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark (Reuters) - The image of barefoot mountain hillbillies has made many Arkansans cringe for decades.

But it's a hard one to shake -- even though the state produced a two-term president in Bill Clinton, a famous author in John Grisham, and one of the world's most successful entrepreneurs in Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton.

Arkansas' hillbilly image resonates into 21st century - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/arkansas-hillbilly-image-resonates-21st-century-130617737.html - broken link)
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Old 09-27-2011, 10:35 AM
 
Location: Louisiana to Houston to Denver to NOVA
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I have nothing against Arkansas and like some of it's towns but really?:

And what is "redneck horseshoes," exactly?
Throwing a toilet seat at a stake.
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Old 09-27-2011, 10:48 AM
 
Location: Oroville, California
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Some of the scariest, trashiest, missing-a-chromosome people I've seen come out of hills have been right here in far Northern California. A trip to the local Wal-mart when they come down to shop can be an eye-opening experience. I never saw anyone like them when visiting family in rural areas of Northern Arkansas. Everyone there was so clean-cut and normal.
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Old 09-27-2011, 12:12 PM
 
Location: Blankity-blank!
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This is not fair to Kentucky, the hillbilly state!
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Old 09-27-2011, 12:23 PM
 
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Some of the scariest, trashiest, missing-a-chromosome people I've seen come out of hills have been right here in far Northern California. A trip to the local Wal-mart when they come down to shop can be an eye-opening experience. I never saw anyone like them when visiting family in rural areas of Northern Arkansas. Everyone there was so clean-cut and normal.
Yeah, I was going to make a comment and than I saw that you were already located in Oroville. I've got three generations of my family that lived around Oroville although most passed on or moved away, and still got an uncle and cousin around there.

As my grandpa used to say, "Nothin' but Okies out in there Gridley and Palermo". And then you've got the crazy hillbillies out in the foothills towards Feather Falls--either paranoid pot growers or wild backwood types. Once almost got shot at hiking in that area, when we wandered too close to someone's "organic farm". Last time I visited my family there was a free Foghat concert down at the Feather Falls Indian casino--a whole crowd of 'em came down from the boonies, looked like a cross between Lil' Abner and a biker ralley--and probably had about two full sets of teeth in the whole place.

On the other hands when I've driven around the hills and mountains of the South, people seemed pretty easy going and polite--at least comparatively.
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Old 09-27-2011, 02:04 PM
 
Location: Looking over your shoulder
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It’s simply that the south in general, not just Arkansas that has an image like this. I don’t think that this image will evaporate even into the 22nd century.
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Old 09-27-2011, 02:42 PM
 
Location: Louisiana to Houston to Denver to NOVA
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It’s simply that the south in general, not just Arkansas that has an image like this. I don’t think that this image will evaporate even into the 22nd century.
Maybe in the minds of the ignorant.
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Old 09-27-2011, 02:44 PM
 
Location: Appalachian New York, Formerly Louisiana
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Most hillbillies and rednecks I know are from the northeast!
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Old 09-27-2011, 02:57 PM
 
Location: Oroville, California
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Yeah, I was going to make a comment and than I saw that you were already located in Oroville. I've got three generations of my family that lived around Oroville although most passed on or moved away, and still got an uncle and cousin around there.

As my grandpa used to say, "Nothin' but Okies out in there Gridley and Palermo". And then you've got the crazy hillbillies out in the foothills towards Feather Falls--either paranoid pot growers or wild backwood types. Once almost got shot at hiking in that area, when we wandered too close to someone's "organic farm". Last time I visited my family there was a free Foghat concert down at the Feather Falls Indian casino--a whole crowd of 'em came down from the boonies, looked like a cross between Lil' Abner and a biker ralley--and probably had about two full sets of teeth in the whole place.

On the other hands when I've driven around the hills and mountains of the South, people seemed pretty easy going and polite--at least comparatively.
Someone who knows what I'm talking about! My mom was saying the other day she didn't know why all the old men around here look like some "49er" that walked through a time warp. Dirty clothes, old miner's hat and a long, ugly beard. Definitely an odd part of California that few know about.
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Old 09-27-2011, 08:08 PM
 
Location: Appalachian New York, Formerly Louisiana
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Yeah, I was going to make a comment and than I saw that you were already located in Oroville. I've got three generations of my family that lived around Oroville although most passed on or moved away, and still got an uncle and cousin around there.

As my grandpa used to say, "Nothin' but Okies out in there Gridley and Palermo". And then you've got the crazy hillbillies out in the foothills towards Feather Falls--either paranoid pot growers or wild backwood types. Once almost got shot at hiking in that area, when we wandered too close to someone's "organic farm". Last time I visited my family there was a free Foghat concert down at the Feather Falls Indian casino--a whole crowd of 'em came down from the boonies, looked like a cross between Lil' Abner and a biker ralley--and probably had about two full sets of teeth in the whole place.

On the other hands when I've driven around the hills and mountains of the South, people seemed pretty easy going and polite--at least comparatively.
I believe it. The real nasty more stereotypical hillbillies actually tend to come from places outside of the south.

The northeast and the Pacific coast in particular.

And I guarantee a hillbilly from New York is gonna be far worse than one from Arkansas these days. I know from experience. I bet the same goes for California.
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