TW1ZTY wrote:
kraftiekortie wrote:
Hillbilly is certainly better than Trailer Trash. The connotation is not completely negative.
They don’t call many people from the Deep South hillbillies. It’s more a term for people from the hills and mountains of the Mid South. Especially people from the Ozarks and Appalachians.
I've been called trailer trash too, because I grew up in trailer parks all my life.
I pretty positive most people use terms like "hillbilly" and "redneck" as interchangable derogatory terms. Even if there is technically a difference.
Also I think Hawaii became an
official US state in 1959. Right? Before then it was US territory like Puerto Rico.
For what it's worth, I'd self-identify as a redneck before I'd use it as a slur. When I've read about it, the term seems to have an origin so far back that it's meant a few different things historically and probably still has different connotations to different people. I don't use it with an inherent connection to whiteness, because metis people definitely can be rednecks too. I do feel it implies 'Anglo-ness' to a degree though, non-English speaking Americans and Canadians don't count. Basically I tend to use it to refer to Anglophone Americans and Canadians who have lived in rural areas for multiple generations and who embrace the sorts of recreational activities available in those areas, especially if they'd be comfortable self-identifying with the term.
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