Are all yokels, hicks ?

Question

What's the diffference between a rube, a hick, a hillbilly, redneck, and a yokel.

Answer 1

I'd like to know.

Answer 2

You might as well add country bumpkin to mix as well...it's in the OED. There is no difference between any of those terms. They all mean the same thing: an individual who lives between the Sierra and Appalachian mountain ranges. Basically, if you can't see the ocean then you are a rube, a hick, a hillbilly, redneck, or a yokel.

Answer 3

I don't know what a rube is, but i do know that i am a local yokel, who likes to deck rednecks, get my kicks from hicks, and hillbillies give me the willies... We are all different in our respective ways, but these ways are hard to say.

Answer 4

I've never heard of rube.
Around my parts a hick lives out in the sticks-has modern house and life, but enjoys the simple life.
A hillbilly lives further back into the wilderness-and relies on the ways of the old days before power etc.
A redneck (name gotten from the sunburn around the neck), is hardworking, mostly of the agricultural nature.
Every place has 'local yocals' - they are generally natives of the place you are referring to.

Answer 5

lol no they are not all hick,hillbilly,or redneck I do not know what Yokel mean

Answer 6

There's alot of overlap, but hillbilly has barefeet and holds his pants up with a piece of rope while a redneck were's boots and holds his pants up with a thick leather belt with a large belt buckle that advertises and beer, truck, or gun.

Answer 7

Hillbillies whittles what they sees, (in visions), Rubes "It’s the rubes. Yeah, that’s it. It’s the stupid, ignorant, white, in-bred, bucked-toothed country hicks who still believe in Jesus and haven’t moved to the city. They’re the idiots who caused a landslide for conservative Republicans."
Yokels, also called bumpkins, are unsophisticated country people. In England yokels are traditionally depicted as wearing the old West Country farmhand's dress of straw hat and white smock, chewing a piece of straw and carrying a pitchfork or rake. The Wurzels cheerfully play on this stereotype in their Scrumpy and Western music. Yokels can also come from other parts of Britain such as Yorkshire or Norfolk. English yokels speak a country dialect from some part of England. [1] Variations can involve the straw hat with baggy trousers or a large untidy weatherproof hat not of straw.

Yokels are also depicted as talking about bucolic topics like cows, sheep, fields, crops and buxom wenches to the exclusion of all else.

The word may derive either from a comic mispronunciation of the word 'local', from a dialect word 'yokel' meaning 'woodpecker' or from the Somerset word 'yogel' meaning 'owl', owls being traditionally seen as stupid in Somerset.

In fiction, such yokels may be depicted as gullible and easily conned. Conversely, they may be viewed as straightforward and simplistic, and therefore seeing through sophisticated pretenses.

The development of television brought many previously isolated communities into mainstream British culture in the 1950s and 1960s. The Internet continues this integration, further eroding the town/country divide. In the 21st century British country folk are less frequently seen as yokels.

"In the United States yokel has a similar meaning to Hillbilly or country bumpkin.
Bumpkin (capital “B”) can also be an abbreviation of Bumpasskin (of or relating to Bumpass, Virginia.)"
"Hick (also country hick or country bumpkin) is a derogatory term for a person from a rural area. It connotes a degree of crude simplicity and backward conservativism in values, manners, and mores. In a number of rural areas it is a term applied to a snob coming from wealth usually a southerner, as in the phrase, "You big shot hick."

According to the Oxford English Dictionary the term is a "by-form" of the personal name Richard (like Dick) and Hob (like Bob) for Robert. Although the English word "hick" is of recent vintage, distinctions between urban and rural dwellers are ancient.

According to a popular etymology, the term derives from the nickname "Old Hickory" for Andrew Jackson, one of the first Presidents of the United States to come from rural hard-scrabble roots. This nickname suggested that Jackson was tough and enduring like an old Hickory tree. Jackson was particularly admired by the residents of remote and mountainous areas of the United States, people who would come to be known as "hicks."

Some people complain that "hicks" continue as almost the only group that can be ridiculed and stereotyped with impunity. "Hick" is a less frequently used as a term for any American of European descent by other racial groups."

Answer 8

I dont know but I liked life alot better without all the labels.People are just people.Good and bad in everyone

Answer 9

They're all white derogatory remarks, you yokel!

Answer 10

Nothing, they are all ignorant, slang terms for white people and are very offensive and should be banned like the word Ni#ger.

but.....white people really do not take offense to stupid terms like that. We understand BS and know what is important.

Answer 11

I assume you are refering to people who live in rural areas or anyone not urban or suburban. The only difference in them and anyone else is that they are usually more self-reliant than their urban/suburban counterparts.