Do hillbillies make you nervous?

Hillbilly · May 10, 2008

I'm a little surprised at way some of you responded to this thread. I have to think that if they same question in this title were directed towards almost any other group of people more of you would have come to their defense.

We hillbillies are no better or no worse than any other group of people. We have our bad apples but we have our good ones too. If we make you nervious then maybe it's because we are simple folks who don't pretend to be something we are not. A lot of people don't seem to feel comfortable with the truth about others or about themselves. You can call me a hillbilly and I don't take offense to it. I'm proud to be a hillbilly just as I hope you are proud to be who or what you are.

Divine Androgyne · May 10, 2008

Hillbilly said:
I'm a little surprised at way some of you responded to this thread. I have to think that if they same question in this title were directed towards almost any other group of people more of you would have come to their defense. quote]

So true, so true and so sad. :yes:

Nessa Nenharma · May 10, 2008

I, personally, am not nervous about anyone. I have gone from living on the streets of inner city Baltimore and Philly, to the back neck woods of Delaware (trust me, you want to see racist people live on the Delaware/Maryland border... whew these people are Crazy). I don't feel that anyone should feel nervous about anyone else. Most people are sorely misunderstood, and in that misunderstanding comes stereotyping.

hillbilly

"southern Appalachian resident," c.1900, from hill + masc. proper name Billy/Billie. As a type of folk music, first attested 1924.

"In short, a Hill-Billie is a free and untrammelled white citizen of Alabama, who lives in the hills, has no means to speak of, dresses as he can, talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it, and fires of his revolver as the fancy takes him." ["New York Journal," April 23, 1900]

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper

I see nothing in the definition of a hillbilly that would cause one to be nervous or even afraid.

DallasApple · May 10, 2008

No hillibilies dont make me nervous.. just caint understand them ...and I prefer a male companion to be with me when encoutering one...And Im part hillbilly ..

Ya'll should go in the woods in east Texas and try to order a hamburger at Dairy queen..Its more of a "language barrier" than anything else...Have you ever ordered a hamburger and it soudned like you were at a cattlle auction?...I have...Then they laugh at me cuz I just say "o.k" when the question required a yes or no..

So I guess it depends on the hillbilly...

Love

Dallas

Ardent Listener · May 10, 2008

Wow! Talk about stereotypes. I would have expected better of Religious forums.

whereismynotecard · May 10, 2008

I'm really unsocial and I get nervous about talking to anyone, unless I already know them, or unless they are being nice to me. Uh... hillbillies... I wouldn't say they make me any more nervous than anyone else...

McBell · May 10, 2008

Ardent Listener said:
Wow! Talk about stereotypes. I would have expected better of Religious forums.

Huh?
Is it your thought that RF should ban everyone who harbors stereotypical beliefs?

Ardent Listener · May 10, 2008

Mestemia said:
Huh?
Is it your thought that RF should ban everyone who harbors stereotypical beliefs?

Did I mention anything about banning anyone? I'm surprised you would ask something like that.

I was just disappointed in some of the replies expressed here that's all.

Divine Androgyne · May 10, 2008

Mestemia said:
Huh?
Is it your thought that RF should ban everyone who harbors stereotypical beliefs?

Not if its only stupid hillbillies we are talking about. Now stereotype a jew, transsexual, or a homosexual and welcome to R.E.F's hell fellow.

DallasApple · May 10, 2008

Ardent Listener said:
Wow! Talk about stereotypes. I would have expected better of Religious forums.

Maybe you have a corn cobb up your behiny and cant stop expecting people to not talk about things you think they shouldnt? (In your opininion)..People are different...Including you..Talking about that isnt a "sin"....

I was born In Alabama and take ZERO offense to this thread..

Blessings

Dallas

Divine Androgyne · May 10, 2008

DallasApple said:
Maybe you have a corn cobb up your behiny and cant stop expecting people to not talk about things you think they shouldnt?..People are different...Includign you..Talking about that isnt a "sin"....

I was born In Alabama and take ZERO offense to this thread..

Blessings

Dallas

Well, hillbilly told me he did so stick the corn cob in deep pal!

DallasApple · May 10, 2008

Divine Androgyne said:
Not if its only stupid hillbillies we are talking about. Now stereotype a jew, transsexual, or a homosexual and welcome to R.E.F's hell fellow.

Hillbillies arent "stupid"...but they are "hillibillies"...Just like "ganstas" arent stupid but they in fact are ganstas...

Discussing the ways of life of others is what a forum is about..(in part)..IMHO

Love

Dallas

DallasApple · May 10, 2008

Divine Androgyne said:
Well, hillbilly told me he did so stick the corn cob in deep pal!

Im good...but I dont read you well...sorry..

Love

Dallas

Smoke · May 10, 2008

Hillbilly said:
I'm proud to be a hillbilly just as I hope you are proud to be who or what you are.

I'm proud, too, though I'm a generation removed from the mountains. (I was born in Florida.) I started the thread because I was surprised that anybody would be afraid to go around hillbillies. I've seen a lot more mean and hateful people in the Midwest than I ever have in the Appalachian mountains.

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technical ecstasy · Aug 24, 2008

MidnightBlue said:
My first husband was very nervous about hillbillies. Take him six miles down a dirt road in the mountains, and he was convinced he was about to be in a real-life version of Deliverance. He actually got kind of panicky a couple times.

Well, I thought he was just nervous. But recently my present husband and his mother both told me they think it's either very brave or very foolish to travel all over Appalachia by myself, in all kinds of isolated places. They are surprised no hillbillies have waylaid me yet. That surprises me.

I am sometimes wary, mind you, about going onto private land. But in general I don't think a thing about traveling around the mountains alone. The only places that have ever made me nervous (so far) were the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn and New Orleans outside the the Quarter.

What do you think? Would you be nervous traveling in Appalachia? Why?

Well blow me down and call me Lou, dog gone it. Do hillbillies make me nervous? No, dang nab it.

Laremst · Oct 26, 2008

There's not too many Hillbillies these days, most of what's left of them where I live are just run of the mill farmers now. I have encountered a few "Hillbillies" though, ones who just live off on their own in the woods making beer and shooting deer. They're friendly from what I've seen though, I've been invited in and offered drinks lots of times too.

Do hillbillies make you nervous?

Do hillbillies make you nervous?

Everybody makes me nervous.

I'm not generally nervous, but hillbillies make me nervous.

Some people make me nervous, but hillbillies don't.

Nobody makes me nervous.

I don't know; I never met a hillbilly.

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