Do hillbillies make you nervous?

[Smoke]

I just personally assumed you were talking about the hills have eyes kinda people.

No, that's not how I see it at all.

Have any of the posts helped you sort through your feelngs about walking alone?

My mother's side of the family -- or some of them, anyway -- have lived in Appalachia since before the Revolution. I find it the most natural thing in the world to be up in the mountains; I feel happy there. I was just surprised that other people were concerned.

 

[Katzpur]

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

I think hillbillies shoot at Mormons, don't they?

 

[Buttercup]

We don't have hillbillies in Oregon. We have hippies. Are they related?

 

[Smoke]

I think hillbillies shoot at Mormons, don't they?

Everyplace I've ever lived, we got Mormon missionaries or Jehovah's Witnesses, but only rarely both. I think the JWs got Appalachia.

 

[Smoke]

We don't have hillbillies in Oregon. We have hippies. Are they related?

If you go to Boone, North Carolina (one of my favorite towns), you'll find a really interesting mix of the old mountain families, the university community, and lots of hippies. And lesbians. Hippies and lesbians love the mountains.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Hippies and lesbians love the mountains.

Who doesn't love the mountains?

 

[Smoke]

Who doesn't love the mountains?

My mother, for one. When she got out of high school, she moved to Florida and never looked back.

 

[s2a]

If you go to Boone, North Carolina (one of my favorite towns), you'll find a really interesting mix of the old mountain families, the university community, and lots of hippies. And lesbians. Hippies and lesbians love the mountains.

"Hippies and lesbians love the mountains."

And...Subarus...

;-)

 

[Lindsey-Loo]

No, they don't make me nervous. They're honest, hardworking people and I'm as much at home with them as I am with my redneck extended family in Georgia. And rednecks are kinfolk to hillbillies, you know. But my mother likes to refer to us as Southern Gentry. She can think that if she wants, I guess...

 

[Dr. Nosophoros]

I didn't vote because there was no " I am a hillbilly" choice.
Kinda weird.

I would rather live in a shack on the side of a hill than be part of what is generally called "civilization", every once in a while I get on a high bluff overlooking this city or that (doesn't matter the name) ponder on it, then think, naah- not today.

 

[Buttercup]

I didn't vote because there was no " I am a hillbilly" choice.
Kinda weird.

Exactly! I scream discrimination!

Also, why not add the choice, "I love hillbillies!"? Some find them sexy! :flirt:

 

[Nanda]

Hillbillies with internet access. There's a thought...

 

[Smoke]

I didn't vote because there was no " I am a hillbilly" choice.

That was a pretty serious omission on my part.

I've always thought I'd end up in the mountains of North Carolina, and the more disgusted I get with American politics, the more unhappy I am that northern Ontario doesn't seem to have anything comparable.

I would rather live in a shack on the side of a hill than be part of what is generally called "civilization", every once in a while I get on a high bluff overlooking this city or that (doesn't matter the name) ponder on it, then think, naah- not today.

Split decision for me. I keep telling John, we need a cabin in the woods, and an condo in the city. (And by the city, I mean New York, or maybe Toronto -- not Columbia, South Carolina.)

 

[Smoke]

Also, why not add the choice, "I love hillbillies!"? Some find them sexy! :flirt:

You wouldn't believe how many good-looking men there are in places like Burnsville, North Carolina, and Mountain City, Tennessee.

 

[Guitar's Cry]

Having grown up with hillbillies (some family), I have found only small differences between them and other folk.

 

[Dr. Nosophoros]

Having grown up with hillbillies (some family), I have found only small differences between them and other folk.

I'd trust a "hillbilly" over a man or woman with a suit and tie any day of the week.

 

[PureX]

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?

It's been a lot of years since I used to travel around Appalachia, but I found folks there to be very bright, and interesting, and friendly, and honest. And I was a "Yankee", even. They liked telling me stories that turned out to be jokes, as that's somewhat of a tradition in those parts, and because of my northern accent, they knew that I wouldn't have heard them before. But I understood that they weren't trying to make a fool of me, they just genuinely liked telling those story/jokes and they didn't often get to tell them to outsiders who had never heard them, before.

I was not in the deep south, however, I mostly traveled around Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina.

 

[Ozzie]

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?

Deliverance is a great movie. I can't hear duellin' Banjos without recalling it. Duellin banjos make me nervous.

 

[JadeAngel]

There can be bad people and there can be good people. I was born and raised in Chattanooga TN and it is for the most part a city that has a lot of ghetto communities, and I have found some good people in ghettos who work and try to make a living abd provide for their families, but then I have seen the welfare single moms who have some leach of a man living off of her and possibly even putting her out on the streets to sell sexual favores. I've even seen white men also this way as well in these same communities. I've seen drug dealers of every kind, of every race of people. In every kind of community, urban nighborhoods, trailer parks, Apartment complexes (both normal appartments, and project appartments). I've seen good and bad in lots of differnet types of places.

I have lived in the country and seen different kinds of people in Whats called hillbilly communities, like in the mountains (I've also seen city folk get pretty nervous when they go into these places and I've been one myself), and there can be pretty bad people there as well as good people. There can even be the leaches living off of parents, who have worked all their lives to keep a home and take care of their families. Then there are the good people who can be the best people in the world who will take care of a city girl whos new and her boyfriend just dumps her off out in the middle of the woods with mountain people she ain't never met before (like what happened to me when I was 18), but the people were great with me. I am so shy people think I'm kinda crazy mentally, but these people didn't treat me like that and they talked to me and got me to go aroud with them on their business or just their social visits. They made the scary feeling go away totally, I felt like I was in the safest place in the world, even more safer than with my boyfriend who had taken me there.

Then there are the drug dealers that live in the mountains, who are coolest people and then there are the mean people who have no scrupples and must make sure they don't get caght up with and will stoop to violence if they have to. People who feel like they need to sell drugs, mainly pot, to make extra cash to live on. Then there are the leaches in these places to. Most of the leaches are people who live off of anyone who will take them in they are usually alcoholics and drug addicts who hang out anywhere there is beer, moonshine, or any kinda drug you can pull out in front of them.

Then theres the farmers and the people who own small stores, businesses, and fishing bait and takle places who vary in everyway, every kind of person you can think of in the world. Seriously, there are some people who you can put labels on, but with every label you give a group of people there are always the opposite of the norm in that groups as well.

Like us trailer park (trash) well some of us actually work, and try to be the best kind of people we can be. Some of us seriously do try and rasie our kids right. Some of us do actually make sure our teenagers don't go out running around like little sluts, or whores. Some of us actually don't live on welfare at all. Some of us would rather starve and wait on the next pay check before we'd even consider getting food stamps. I've even seen a man consider stealing to feed his kids rather than get food stamps or to ask the government for anything. I've seen women have kids, and leave them all over anyone who'd take the kid, just to get welfare. I've seen these kinds of women In trailer parks, urban comunities, and ghettos, you name it these kinds of women are everywhere. They spend the welfare money on themselves, whatever it is they need at any given time. I have seen all kinds of women in every kind of community con any man she could find for money.

And yes there is a lot of prejudice in any kinda community you can go into. I have been in a house in my own hometown, where a black lady told my boyfriend (who was half black) to not bring a white lady back to my house anymore. I went outside of that ladies home as she considered me an undesireable. Then I have heard red necks jokingly talking about running down a black person they just saw walking on a road and not doing nothing. Prejudice is everywhere, and in those places where it is, you can also find someone people who arn't prejudice. I have seen both black and white go to the exstreem when they caught the person of a differnt race inside their community. But even with all of the labels you can put on people, you can find good and decent people that you least expected to find in that place as well.

Charla

 

[3.14]

as long as the hillbillies don't have sharp bloody axes, bodyparts in a jar, or my child i got nothing to be nervous about