What do you consider a hillbilly?

Question

my sister calls me hillbilly and she gave me 20 good reasons why... what do you think reasons are

Answer 1

I consider myself a hillbilly even though I have a college degree and spent 20 years living and working in California. I never felt at home during all those years away from the hills of south west Missouri. When I moved back home in 1994, I decided I was home and have been living the country (hillbilly) life I love ever since. Proud to be considered a hillbilly.

Answer 2

I don't think that "Deliverance" had anything to do with Kentucky as one of the answers stated. Most people that think of hillbilly's think of toothless, uneducated,Moonshine Making and Drinking ,goat raising,barefooted unemployed people who live in the sticks! But they couldn't be farther from the Truth, don't believe everything you see on TV! It's just easy to make up jokes about blondes and hillbilly's I guess!As a Hillbilly might say "Peers like up know, they probably don't know no such stuff!

Answer 3

People mistake Country or Western as being Hillbilly. I think it's a misused term. I think of Hillbilly as being really hickish & backwards. Whereas Country or Western is just a style, or sometimes a lifestyle if you're a real cowboy & not a poser.

Tell you sister to wise up & find a new nickname for you.

Answer 4

When we were down on the farm we were labled the boonys, when we were up in timber and logging mountain country we were those wild hillbillys, some friends and cousins were those transplanted Arkie hillbillys, and they were proud of it. We liked being called THOSE timber hillbillys. It was much better than being a dumb flatlander.

Answer 5

Hillbillies are, by definition, rural folk who inhabit the Appalachian region of the U.S., particularly in Tennessee, Kentucky and northern Georgia. I'd suggest you rent the movie "Deliverance" if you haven't seen it already; that should clear up what a hillbilly is (in the stereotypical sense of the word which is probably the context in which your sister used it).

Answer 6

I don't why your sister calls you hillbilly.but where my family from it's not a bad thing.Yes we are rural folk we kinda stick to our own kind.hillbilly's are not just in the Appalachian We are from western ky
just go north on 431 out of tenn.It's too bad that the movie Deliverance try to show what city people think hillbilly are.I'm proud to be one.Just remember one thing Country folk(hillbilly)will survive.

Answer 7

Oh i think it's a good thing...no offense to anybody please, but i consider Loretta Lynn a hillbilly, and she does too, i've read interviews where she's said that she's a proud hillbilly for butcher holler..HONEY YOU SHOULD BE PROUD- YOU'RE IN GREAT COMPANY!

Answer 8

Here are the reasons i could think of:
1.talks with a country accent.
2.says those charming country saying (like on hannah montana like sweet niblets and that boy flip flops more than a cat fish in a moon bouncer.)
3.they are more easy going i guess and have patients and know how to handle animals.

Answer 9

An uneducated backwoods person is what I consider a hillbilly so she must think that you arent the most cultured person in town. Does you house have wheels on it and does your family tree have no forks?

Answer 10

Well, Coolio....somebody said Hill Billy means uneducated back woods person, well....I live in town and I gots me a lil' bit of eddycation...so I guess I qualify to be a "Hill William"