drm604
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Sun Nov-09-08 11:00 AM
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3. My father grew up in the Allegheny Mountains of western Pennsylvania. |
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His father was an illiterate coal miner and they were dirt poor. My father left the region and married my mother in the Philly suburbs which is where I grew up. So I guess I come from hillbilly lineage myself.
I don't think many of the people on here see the term "hillbilly" as applying to real people, but rather as a cartoonish image as portrayed by "Lil Abner" and "The Beverly Hillbillies". So they don't see it's use in a disdainful manner as an insult to any real persons.
To be honest, I myself wasn't aware that anyone thought of themselves as hillbillies.
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