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Old 03-05-2012, 09:28 AM
 
Location: Mokelumne Hill, CA & El Pescadero, BCS MX.
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Angel's Camp, Murphy, are the first places I can think of.
LOL those are the most upscale parts of Calaveras County. Try Wilseyville or Glencoe.

Obviously never been there comment.
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Old 03-05-2012, 09:34 AM
 
Location: SW MO
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LOL those are the most upscale parts of Calaveras County. Try Wilseyville or Glencoe.

Obviously never been there comment.
Besides, the foothills tend to be more redneck than hillbilly. Think San Andreas and tweakers. Murphys is artsy-fartsy, local wine sipping while nibbling fusion delicacies, except perhaps on St. Patrick's Day.
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Old 03-05-2012, 09:45 AM
 
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Besides, the foothills tend to be more redneck than hillbilly. Think San Andreas and tweakers. Murphys is artsy-fartsy, local wine sipping while nibbling fusion delicacies, except perhaps on St. Patrick's Day.
I'm thinking DM is in the know when it comes to that part of the foothills.

I definately agree with the redneck vs hillbilly thing in foothill country.

Quite honestly I don't think there really is a hillbilly type of area in California. Based on my exposure to Hillbilly culture when I visited the back country of West Virginia in the late 80's.
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Old 03-05-2012, 09:57 AM
 
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Well of course, our place is the pinnacle of hillbillydom!

That said, you will find hillbilly enclaves anywhere there are road served or quasi road served backwoods in them thar hills, which means, most places not in the flatlands, state wide.

Heck, I still see the odd hillbilly still living in the old hood out in the Sunset! LOL!
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Old 03-05-2012, 10:00 AM
 
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I'm thinking DM is in the know when it comes to that part of the foothills.

I definately agree with the redneck vs hillbilly thing in foothill country.

Quite honestly I don't think there really is a hillbilly type of area in California. Based on my exposure to Hillbilly culture when I visited the back country of West Virginia in the late 80's.
I've encountered them just a few miles from where we live, in the Santa Cruz mountain back woods. When we were kids we called them "zombies" - some of them grow pot, and there are stills as well.
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Old 03-05-2012, 10:12 AM
 
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Rancho Tehama Reserve

A fairly remote settlement in the hills west of Corning (no longer an Indian reservation).

Cheapest real estate in California.

Beware the local vigilantes, however.


The place is not entirely without high culture.

Those benchlands out to the West of I-5 are an intriguing neck of the woods. Most of the foothill areas to the W of I-5 anywhere south of Corning are much more arid in appearance, with the exception of the areas nearer the Bay-Delta gap (e.g. Solano/Yolo County foothills). The open oak and (Digger or Coulter?) pine forest in these Tehama benchlands are an inviting landscape.
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Old 03-05-2012, 10:27 AM
 
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I've encountered them just a few miles from where we live, in the Santa Cruz mountain back woods. When we were kids we called them "zombies" - some of them grow pot, and there are stills as well.


Santa Cruz Hillbilly.

Interesting.
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Old 03-05-2012, 10:44 AM
 
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Santa Cruz Hillbilly.

Interesting.
Not the City of Santa Cruz.

There are mountains (not big ones, 2 - 3K feet) that run between the San Benito - Santa Clara county line to Daly City, just West of the Western inner Bay Area communities. These are the Santa Cruz Mountains. They are densely wooded (including significant old, second and third growth stands of Coast Redwood, with Doug Fir above the marine layer) in many areas. Where they are not truly wooded they have thick 6 - 10 foot high chaparral. Topography is heavily weathered, with steep slopes and substantial late Tertiary and Quaternary aged stream formed erosional features. The foothills are more rolling, and are old rock, and have typical Coast Live oak open woodland.
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Old 03-05-2012, 11:35 AM
 
Location: United States of America
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Salton City. Hillbillyism in the desert.
I would say that Imperial County is hillbilly/redneck with a Latino twist
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Old 03-05-2012, 12:13 PM
 
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Not the City of Santa Cruz.

There are mountains (not big ones, 2 - 3K feet) that run between the San Benito - Santa Clara county line to Daly City, just West of the Western inner Bay Area communities. These are the Santa Cruz Mountains. They are densely wooded (including significant old, second and third growth stands of Coast Redwood, with Doug Fir above the marine layer) in many areas. Where they are not truly wooded they have thick 6 - 10 foot high chaparral. Topography is heavily weathered, with steep slopes and substantial late Tertiary and Quaternary aged stream formed erosional features. The foothills are more rolling, and are old rock, and have typical Coast Live oak open woodland.
Yes I am aware of the Santa Cruz Range. Having spent time hunting coastal deer in certain areas along its length back in the 1980's.

Still never ran into any hillbillies, hippies yes. But, learn something new every day
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