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2006-09-04 05:51:18 · 25 answers · asked by tripledigit 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
I would rather live in the country where I can piss off my backporch, or feed my chickens naked if I so choose,,,,living in the city is like living on top of a fire ant mound....what makes you any better? bet you put your britches on the same way I do.
2006-09-04 05:57:57 · answer #1 · answered by dusty 2 · 10⤊ 2⤋
I've been accused of being a hick on more than one occasion, but I'm not sure what they meant exactly.
Did they call me a hick because I'm a southerner? Did they call me a hick because I believe in hard work, family, God, and country? Did they call me a hick because I like to fish, hunt, and believe in the God given right to own a firearm to protect my family, neighbors....? Did they call me a hick because I believe that as a mom, I brought some children into the world and I want to be the one raising them? Did they call me a hick because I grow herbs and veggies on my front porch and back stoop in pots? Did they call me a hick because I like the feel of the grass between my toes and let my kids play barefoot? Did they call me a hick because I believe that you don't swear in front of a lady or tell crude jokes that hurt others? Did they call me a hick because I believe that unions are becoming just as corrupt as NOW, NAACP, and many other organizaions that once had a noble cause and went extreme? Did they call me a hick because I like to eat fried food, collard greens, cornbread, gizzards, fried green tomatoes, catfish, bisquits and gravey, grits, and watermelon??? Yes, I've been called a hick for all those reasons. Am I bothered? Nope. If those things make me a hick, then I'm proud to be one. I'm also a GRIT (girl raised in the south), sandlapper (child raised in SC), redneck (worked in the sun much of my childhood), conservative, Christian, a stay-at-home mom, and college educated. Many of those are used today with a negative connotation, but I'm proud of them all. Hope I raise my girls to be much like me. My husband does too.
So what is a hick?
2006-09-04 13:04:36 · answer #2 · answered by Bubbles 4 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Hick (also country hick or country bumpkin) is a derogatory term for a person from a rural area.
Does this include human souls living outside of Merica in rural areas?
2006-09-04 13:05:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
I think hick is a derogatory term for Americans who probably live in the rural areas of the midwest or the south, (Texas and east) that are uneducated and backward. they are probably white and more than likely racist and narrow minded. A synonym would be hillbilly.
2006-09-04 13:50:05 · answer #4 · answered by Dianna P 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Some people think that if you were born in the South or in the hills, that makes you a hick. Some people think that if you were born outside of a great cultural center, that you are a hick. Some people equate poor with ignorant and stupid=hick. It depends on your reasoning. What do you think?
I also LOVED Vanessam's answer. You go, girl!!
2006-09-04 12:58:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 3⤋
In English, a hick is a particularly unsophisticated person from a rural place.
2006-09-04 12:58:11 · answer #6 · answered by Candidus 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Words similar to hick: rube, bumpkin, bumpkinly, chawbacon, hayseed, hickish.....that's what the dictionary says......I'm not sure I agree and I see it doesn't say from any particular state or region.I don't use that word or description towards any one.Its a bigoted word just as most bigoted words are,meant to speak disparagingly about another in order to make themselves feel better about their own ignorance or lot in life.
I don't use racist or bigoted words to get my point across.I do use the term illegal immigrant because its correct. But I don't use racial words that hurt.I don't need to because I use my vocabulary skills and I don't need the bigoted words or references. So hick is a misnomer and you people that use it are bigots too.
2006-09-04 13:03:28 · answer #7 · answered by Yakuza 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
It's an insult of course. There's nothing else going on so I'll give you your definition. This is from Merriam-Webster dictionary
Main Entry: HICK noun
Etymology: from Hick, nickname for Richard
an awkward, rude, unsophisticated, or provincial person
synonym see BOOR
2006-09-04 12:53:52 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Larry Bird; "the hick from French Lick"
2006-09-04 12:55:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
It is my understanding that a 'hick' is someone from the far outskirts of any smaller city.
2006-09-04 12:54:19 · answer #10 · answered by Our Turn 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋