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Thats something thats going to be hard to prove.. because you do see that type of stuff in a lot of small towns. Some of those things mentioned, you see in inner cities also!
The term is inherently insulting, but what the heck.
Princeton Wordnet defines a hick as "a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture." So it might make sense to look for a town with low education and little cultural outlets.
If it's more about isolation from a metropolitan area than it's probably some town in Alaska. For the contiguous US a contender is Bison, South Dakota, which is near the "spot furthest from a McDonald's." Bison is also over a 100 miles from Rapid City and this site says of it "Percentage of population with a bachelor's degree or higher significantly below state average."
The term is inherently insulting, but what the heck.
Princeton Wordnet defines a hick as "a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture." So it might make sense to look for a town with low education and little cultural outlets.
If it's more about isolation from a metropolitan area than it's probably some town in Alaska. For the contiguous US a contender is Bison, South Dakota, which is near the "spot furthest from a McDonald's." Bison is also over a 100 miles from Rapid City and this site says of it "Percentage of population with a bachelor's degree or higher significantly below state average."
What's funny is that there's a town here on Long island (actually right near where I live), that's called "Hicksville"--but it's not a small town at all. The population density is like 7700 people/sq mile, lots of Indian/Bengali sections, the commuter trains come every 20 mins and it's only like 15 miles outside the city here.
The term is inherently insulting, but what the heck.
Princeton Wordnet defines a hick as "a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture." So it might make sense to look for a town with low education and little cultural outlets.
If it's more about isolation from a metropolitan area than it's probably some town in Alaska. For the contiguous US a contender is Bison, South Dakota, which is near the "spot furthest from a McDonald's." Bison is also over a 100 miles from Rapid City and this site says of it "Percentage of population with a bachelor's degree or higher significantly below state average."
Thats something thats going to be hard to prove.. because you do see that type of stuff in a lot of small towns. Some of those things mentioned, you see in inner cities also!
Yes, I think it's fair to say many poor, newly arrived migrants to big cities are hicks. Always been that way. I'm guessing my Eurpoean ancestors would've been considered hicks when they immigrated to NY in the late 1800s.
Places in jersey, maryland etc where it's just white people
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I read your post too quick.
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