Quiz... how hillbilly are you

CallMeKate said:
I got a 15 but I'm a country girl and spent a lot of time on my grandparents' farm... I'm not even sure how "hillbilly" would be defined, but I don't think it's synonymous with "country born and raised." At least I think of them differently.
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Yes, I always thought you needed to have some hills to be a hillbilly, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, etc. Countrified is different.

I'm not really country at all, I was raised in the expensive suburbs around Charleston, but I visited my grandparents farm and that's where the wading in the river, walking the swinging bridge, egg gathering and the neighbors poor, tick covered beagles were.

Everyone told me not to touch those filthy dogs but I loved them. The real danger was from those wild farm cats, I tried to catch and hug. Lacerations!
 
Being born and raised in Chicago and then transplanted to Kentucky as an adult, I was a little appalled at the lack of "book learning" and some backward ways I found here. Definitely a culture shock. But over the years I have come to appreciate many of the things they do. Most have a great deal of common sense to make up for lack of book smarts.

In the case of a national disaster, they may survive better than most. They will keep warm with their wood stoves, filled with wood they have split themselves. They will also cook their food on that wood stove. They will have shelves filled with food they have grown and canned. They will have meat they have hunted and preserved. They will have eggs. They know how to "southern engineer" when something breaks. They'll have that mule or horse to get around. Water won't be a problem with the well they have. Not to mention many of them will still have their homemade whiskey!

The attitude of the "hill folk" is still kind of ho-hum towards formal education which, in my opinion, needs to change but they don't seem to be bothered. Priorities are just different.

After the hypothetical national disaster I imagine they will hear about all the city folk looting and crying about no phone or internet service and just shake their heads and go back to picking blackberries for tomorrow's breakfast.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
I don't believe I knew you are from West Texas. :unsure: I definitely never thought of you as a hillbilly. :D Funny....one of my husband's nicknames for me was "Country Girl". How the hell he came up with that I'll never know! Well maybe I knew once but forgot. :LOL:
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I was born in Nevada and later moved to Idaho when my mother remarried. Shortly after the end of WWII, we relocated to West Texas where I lived until I joined the Navy at the age of 17 after High School. I spent a lot of time working on various cotton farms as a teenager. We always lived in the country and were not far from the Mexican border. I never thought of myself as a redneck either, but I suppose 31 years in the Navy changes one's perspective on many, many things.

"Country Girl", wow that is quite a stretch.
 
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