Redneck vs. Hillbilly

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Then what is a "hick"?

Uneducated rural person.

Uneducated rural person who doesn't want to be educated.

Or it could just be some person who lives in a "hick town," without the negative connotation, except for the stigma attached to living in a "backwater."

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"Hillbilly" doesn't always have a negative connotation. It could just be a person who lives in the "hills" of the southeast United States.

"Hillbilly music" didn't have a negative connotation in the 1940s. It just meant, basically, "country music" in those days. Especially Bluegrass music.

I've met some nice, nonracist "rednecks," though at least some are racists. If they're into Confederate memorabilia, it's more likely that they're racist. Not all are into this sort of memorabilia. They are usually just farmer-laborer or blue-collar types who dress in overalls with plaid (often flannel) shirts; or jeans with plaid shirts. A "redneck" usually doesn't wear a hat. They don't necessarily have to be Southern. They tend to drive pickups, frequent roadside bars, and like NASCAR (though I'm a New Yorker who's been an auto racing fan since early childhood).

Think of the two main characters of the "Dukes of Hazzard." They were rather like "nice" rednecks. They were, to me, just "regular guys." I've met those sorts of people in my life.

The way some folks slice it: the pleasant nice ones are called "good ole boys" (or girls), and the unpleasant foaming at the mouth ones are called "rednecks". So the Dukes of Hazzard would be "good ole' boys".

Trouble with that is that the Dukes of Hazzard were kinda young to be called "ole".

A redneck. And probably an inbred one too.

I'm betting Australia is chock full of what we Yanks would call rednecks.

I believe they might be called "Bogans."

Again, there ARE nice hillbillies and nice rednecks.

As far as I know, being a "hick" only means you live in a "backwater" type of place.

*high five*

I don't think you've mentioned this before. I'm a fanatic for Trans-Am, IMSA, DRM/DTM, Super GT, and all that jazz. </hijack>

When I was a kid, I knew all the major drivers:

Mario Andretti, A.J. Foyt, the older Unser brothers, Cale Yarborough, Richard Petty, many others....

I even like watching "m***et racing."

In the Fifties and early Sixties the world of stand up comedy was turned on it's head by Mort Sahl, who introduced political satire to stand up.

Or that's what the critics of the time said. Mort Sahl himself said "everyone thinks I am the first comic to walk on stage with a newspaper, but there was a comic who walked on stage with newspapers twenty years before me. That was Will Rogers. But the difference between me and Will Rogers is that he would pretend to be a hayseed, and would make fun of the sophisticates who run the government. I pretend to be a sophisticate, and I make fun of the hayseeds who run the government."

Stereotype much?

This topic has covered Hillbillies, Rednecks and Hicks ...

what about "Yokels"?

Can you be a Redneck Yokel?

A yokel is a person who wants to remain ignorant.

A hick is just a person from a “backwater.”

What about bumpkins and woollybacks?

You forgot peckerwoods.

A "peckerwood" is a very negative term for a racist white-supremacist type person.

A "bumpkin" has no real negative connotation. It just means a person from the country who is naive.

Never heard of a '"Woollyback."