Define Hillbilly Meaning

Opposite of Metropolitan. Usually found living in sparsley populated areas away from the hustle & bustle of city life. Hillbilly's don't give a shit what city folk think of them. Their apperance & what you think of them is not high on their priority list.

What is important to a Hillbilly?

1. Having a good time with friends & family
2. Not having to answer to anybody
3. Spending time in the outdoors; either in the woods or on the water.
4. Enjoying the finer things in life that money can't buy.

A Modern Hillbilly is NOT:

1. Uneducated (most have college degrees)
2. a redneck
3. white trash
4. a wigger
5. a nigger
6. poor or live in a shack

The Modern Hillbilly is a true bohemian who is not constricted by what the mainstream considers acceptable. They live by their own rules, similar to the "laws of the land".

A resident of the Ozarks.
Contrary to popular belief Hillbillies are no smarter or dumber then a person from the city, though Hillbillies tend to enjoy the simpler pleasures in life, are laid back, have a penchant for homemade liquor, and have their own slang words.

It is a gross misconception that Rednecks and Hillbillies are one in the same, in truth they are not.

Hillbillies in short are the American version of the true Bohemian.

Contrary to popular belief, hillbillys and rednecks are NOT the same thing.

Hillbillys:
Live in the mountains. (hence the name) appalaichians or the ozarks.
Are from the South
Are most of the time educated, they just enjoy the simpler things in life, and dont like to live near a ton of people.
Mostly, very family and friend oriented people.

Rednecks:
In my experience, mostly come from texas.. basically the regions in the south that dont have mountains.
Are also educated mostly, they also dont like to live with alot of people around, but they are usually a little less civiliazed then hillbillys.
Can get very roudy.. (loud, kinda crazy) but all in all, both are very good people,
and both have traditional Southern values.

Apocryphal attribution to isolated denizens of Appalachian Mountains,(Eastern USA) descendants of some of the earliest Scotch-English settlers, who seem to have had some proclivity for naming their children "William" (familiarly "Bill")and some not inconsiderable inclination to incestuous sexual congress. More recently, the term is used to describe any rural resident,especially in the Southern USA and particularly those living in rather rough-hewn conditions, embracing noticably parochial ideologies and a generally hostile attitude.

someone better educated and more entrepenueral than the average resident of Cincinnati....am one

A high-elevation redneck.

Someone who shoots "varmints" with his/her rifle and squaredances in the wee hours of the morning, often at "hoedowns". They say words lyke "spiffy" and "nifty" and enjoy playing the banjo and harmonica. They typically wear overalls with one of the straps undone, straw hat, and no shoes and have a piece of straw hanging outta their mouth. And when they laugh, they dont say hahaha, they say "ahurhur!"

n. People, primarily in the Appalachian region of the South, who are isolated from civilization and cannot therefore assimilate into modern culture. They differ from rednecks in, that, rednecks live in close proximity to both civilization and modern culture, however, they choose not to assimilate, whereas a hillbilly cannot assimilate.

Britney Spears and/or her hubby

Simple minded, rural and inbred. Poor excuses for homosapiens. Diet Consists of roasted racoon and roadkill. usually has around 12 children, all named cleetus, britney or clancey. Lives in trailers or shacks. often mistaken for game. the combined IQ of a family of hillbilly's often challenges the IQ of the raodkill they eat, which is approximatly how many teeth they have (less then 5)

Phrases often used:
ma (mother)
pa (father)
food (roadkill)
crocodillo (rodent)
spoon (any general tool)
ahuhug (hillbilly laugh)
toilet (sink)
them posh city folk (humans)
aha ahugugh (pass the salt)

only a true hillbilly can point out the direction of 'yonder'
hillbillys often get gas money by selling their truck.

hillbillys are also known as:
rednecks
hicks
yokels
country folk
inbreds
trailer park white trash