The Hillbilly Bone: Prejudices Against the Heartland - Comments

I'm from a Small eastern Kentucky town and Stereotypes kill me. If i go to Flipping Ohio i get laughed at it's Crazy!
You would think people would grow Up and realize We have just as many stereotypes about 'City slickers' as they do us 'Hillbilly's'
Great article I'm glad a Kentuckian is helping stand up and spread the word that stereotyping is crazy!

Sweet fellow Kentuckians!!
I like this article, have you ever been asked, "So you're from Kentucky, so you don't wear any shoes, right?" o.O

You know, I started to write an article very similar to this a while back. I'm from MS, and the stereotypes drive me up the wall.

Thanks so much for this; you couldn't be more right!

As someone also from Kentucky, I completely agree with this article. It's accurate, and not to mention, well-written.

Although, the pregnancy stereotype is totally true in my school. We have about 1500 students, and I know at least 4 who are currently pregnant. And that's not counting the ones who have been in the past. It's terribly sad, really.

But wonderful article, I hate when people stereotype us Kentuckians -_-

I thought this article was actually really good. From Britain, the only real contact we get with southern Americans is on the Jerry Springer show. I know this shouldn't be generalised to everyone, but the way the media presents it, as you stated, makes this Southern stereotype look true, because of the thick accent. Good rebuttal to criticise it.

LOL the picture for this article. ahahahha

[i]Californiaaaa, here we comeeeee.[/i]

Yeah, I'm from Tennessee. I make the occasional "dumb redneck" remark myself, which might seem odd considering where I'm from but I don't think of it that way. I think you can live in New York and put forth that "dumb redneck" stereotypical behavior by not acting like you use the brain you were given.

I love this article. And as a fellow Kentuckian, I definitely feel your pain. When some people think of the Southeast, their minds immediately go to the Beverly Hillbillies or Deliverance. And we're the ignorant ones? "Hillbilly" is the acceptable racist term in modern day America. Look anywhere and you'll find remarks about idiotic Southerners, often from supposedly intelligent people. Reminds me of a great book called the Redneck Manifesto.

I completely agree with this article. I have been asked if everyone in Texas rode their horse to school. I was like, no, there are only a handful of us who even own a horse. This was such a great article!

Nice job! This was a very well written article; just had a few spelling errors, nothing major :) You made a very good point, and backed it up with stats and sources.
And I completly agree; I live 'up north', but I drove through the South with my family recently all the way to Florida. It was the...first time I've been down there, and I have to admit, a lot of sterotypes were destroyed.

I'm a sucker for southern accents.
I never really though much of anything about the south that way, mainly because I have several friends who live down south.
Although it is funny, since I moved to Nebraska from Minnesota, I do laugh at the occasional "y'all" I hear, or when I see the people wearing suspenders and cowboy hats like it's an every day thing.
I guess it depends. When I had people, foreign or just people from out of state, come to Minnesota and hang out, the would laugh cause I have an accent. I also get the whole accent thing down here. It gets a bit annoying.

Meh.
I'm a sucker for awesome accents in general.

I really liked your article. It was very well written. Growing up in Germany then moving to Indiana when I was fourteen the kids all told me just about every stereotype on this list when I told them I was moving to Mississippi. None of which were necessarily true. I've only encountered two pregnant girls, although here in Mississippi we do walk around barefoot on our lets say on average ten acres of land we wear shoes out in public, the kids are like all schools some actually study and others don't. The thing with the racially and religiously intolerance I'd have to correct you on. White kids, black kids, Mexican kids, they're all pretty racist. We all get along and in fact one of the most popular girls at our school is a girl named Jessica, a mixed (black and white although she doesn't neccairly look black nor white). It's just they are fairly racist.

This is extremely well written. Your feelings come through strongly without being angry. I never really thought about discrimination based on region until reading this honestly. Quite an interesting article with some surprising facts