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Ben Brand

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Just read Chris Kyle`s autobiography- Most lethal sniper in US military history- Very good book, man those guys had balls.
In the book he is talking about being from Texas and being a redneck, I know what a redneck is, basically a cowboy, am I right. He also talks about hillbillies from Arkansas. Can someone please explain what a hillbilly is, Iv`e heard loads of stories about hillbillies, some of them not to good.
Being from the arse side of the world I would like to get the right stories about rednecks and hillbillies straight. I hope I don`t open a hornets nest by asking these questions.
Ben
 

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Being from Texas I've just heard rumors about hillbillys. I sure would like to read Chris Kyles book though. I hope his wife wins her appeal aagainst a certain former Navy Seal. I had the privaledge to watch some interviews with him on the O'Reiley factor and I was truly impressed. All rednecks ain't necessarily cowboys and a hillbilly knows how to improvise under any conditions.
Redneck and Hillbilly is basicly dealing with whats before you in a direct manner I suppose.But not in a wimpy way. Ya'll probably have a different word for it.
 

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You went and opened up a can of worms didn't you Ben?
There is no strict definition but a few examples.. You are riding down the road and a gigantic pick up truck pulls up beside you. It is lifted 10 inches, has NASCAR signs all over it, no muffler, confederate flags flying from the antenna and the guy driving has a wad of tobacco the size of a golf ball in his mouth. If you look at him the wrong way he'll want to "womp" your ass. He is a redneck.

A hillbilly is basically the same thing but his truck is parked in the front of his run down house with a tree growing through it and his wife is the one with a big wad of chew in it.

So basically there is not much difference but here in America it's kind of like porn. I can't define the difference between a redneck or a hillbilly but I know one when I see one.

And BTW. A hillbilly would look down on a redneck and a redneck would look down on a hillbilly
 

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The old joke I recall was...A redneck calls a hillbilly a inbreed and a hillbilly calls a redneck cousin!
 

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I like to think we can respectfully recognize ...

Any limp wrist metrosekshul egghead commie starts his sentence with "I like to think..." must be some yankee liburl gawd-hatin vedgitaran commie punk. The real world don't give a rabbit fart in a blizzard what you LIKE to think. Don't make me climb down outta my monster truck an whomp yo azz.

The hillbilly grows his grits. The redneck buys his grits. Simple as that.



Love an peace,
Jethro
 

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Any limp wrist metrosekshul egghead commie starts his sentence with "I like to think..." must be some yankee liburl gawd-hatin vedgitaran commie punk. The real world don't give a rabbit fart in a blizzard what you LIKE to think. Don't make me climb down outta my monster truck an whomp yo azz.

The hillbilly grows his grits. The redneck buys his grits. Simple as that.



Love an peace,
Jethro

Clearly an insult. not a problem. something I did not know.
 

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Any limp wrist metrosekshul egghead commie starts his sentence with "I like to think..." must be some yankee liburl gawd-hatin vedgitaran commie punk. The real world don't give a rabbit fart in a blizzard what you LIKE to think. Don't make me climb down outta my monster truck an whomp yo azz.

The hillbilly grows his grits. The redneck buys his grits. Simple as that.



Love an peace,
Jethro

You really shouldn't restrain yourself so much! You'd feel much better letting your inner feelings out. :)
 

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Now bring a yankee into the mix and you have yourself one helluva fun time...
 

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Yeah, well, you gotta excuse that Jethro. He's a yahoo. Has neither the good manners of a redneck, nor the grit of a hillbilly. Sure you have some of them in South Africa, Ben. Prolly call them Oss-TRY-lyuns.

Tell you, I was down among the hillbillies this last weekend. Salt of the earth. Hard palms and clear eyes. Rode thru Hillsville itself, in fact. Sunday, en route from Hillsville to Galax, stopped at a gas station, there was a scrawny young feller, affable as the day is long, waiting alongside his gal for the place to open so he could fuel his old pickup, which was half baling wire and half rust, so they could get theirselves to her Ma's house, help her out with chores. He asked for a cigarette. Gave him one of Johnny Sotweedseed's canisters. Turned out to be Johnny's only target that whole weekend, due to circumstance.

I'll write you up Johnny's adventures later if I get a minute.

I love it down there. Had a dream of buying this little seventy dollar motel that's right beside the Blue Ridge Parkway, turning the defunct motel restaurant into a bike shop, and riding the BRP every day til I die.
 

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Raised in PA. Was told by a fellow from West by god Virginia. " You are a hillbilly if you live so far back in the hills that the hoot owls f---- the chickens!"
 
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