Speaking of religion..I personally believe in reintarnation

[Beth Worden]

Yeah, you know...reintarnation. To clarify, that's when you come back in the next life as a hillbilly.

[Jasfino]

I'm living proof... :-?

[PLEASURE PASOFINO]

Now!!! I have a question to ask, what is the difference between a RED NECK and a HILLBILLY????

Oh, and the definition between the 2 teeth and the 3 teeth, something like that??

:confused

[reuben T]

So what in the tarnation is tha....... I'm the red neck, get it every hay making season, that sun can sure make a red neck. A hill billy has to be a billy livin in the hills, I live in the hills but where's the billy? Oh ya, he's up yonder at the neighbors place running with the does and kids.

[Carol Nelson]

Hey...livin' on a road called Molasses Road in East Texas...don't that make me a redneck.... or a hillbilly??? or somethin' like that.... :lol: :lol: :lol:

[CarolU]

I believe that hillbilly's are unique to the hills and mountain country of the southeast, where as red necks are ALL over. Hillbillies are generally quant, poor, and maybe a little backwards. But rednecks are loud and obnoxious; drive old trucks that are usually jacked up, have a gun rack – with guns – in the back window, chew tobacco, shoot holes in signs, and have beer running through their veins.

Hillbilly:
http://members.tripod.com/~kaysok/aahoed/hillbillybass.gif

Rednecks:
http://www.lovelandnet.com/toms-place/redneck/RedneckDeerhunt.jpg

That about sums it up! ;-)

[Centauress]

:lol: Perfect Carol!

[Mellifluous]

I must have been reintarnated since I am a hillbilly.

I grew up in the southern appalachian mountains so I guess I qualify. :D

I am dragging ASB into hillbillydom with me. She has been reintarnated too!

[Privatetreaty]

Now!!! I have a question to ask, what is the difference between a RED NECK and a HILLBILLY????

Oh, and the definition between the 2 teeth and the 3 teeth, something like that??

:confused


You did it now, boy.
And by the way, you are on your own on this one.
So, don't be look'in to me, Cali-but.


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[PLEASURE PASOFINO]

CUZ, what did I do now?????? :twisted:

[paintedhorizon]

A hillbilly lives in, well, the hills. A redneck doesn’t. A hillbilly can have redneck tendencies though. The differences are very subtle to a human but rednecks and hillbillies can always tell a faker when they run into one.

Belt buckles- A redneck wears a gigantic, shiny belt buckle. A hillbilly wears a gigantic, rusty belt buckle. A redneck has the buckle on a belt while a hillbilly might have it hanging from the rope he’s using as a belt.

Teeth- A redneck usually has at least half of his teeth or a partial plate. A hillbilly may not have any teeth, including a partial. He does carry his last tooth around his neck, on a string.

Homes- A redneck favors trailers for homes. So do hillbillies, except a hillbilly trailer won’t have skirting around it. Makes it too hard for the dogs to get under when it rains.

Beverage- Both favor beer but a redneck prefers cans over bottles. A hillbilly is concerned only about the price.

Cars- The main difference between a redneck car and a hillbilly car is the amount of time spent up on blocks.

Hair- A redneck uses axle grease to slick his back while a hillbilly will uses snot.

Favorite food- A hillbilly prefers grits and roadkill. A redneck prefers grits and whatever it happens to be covering up.

Nose blowing- A redneck will wipe his nose on his shirt sleeve while a hillbilly prefers to blow it straight out at the ground. If he hits your shoes, he apologizes.

Work- Neither is a strong believer.

Pets- Rednecks-mean dogs. Hillbillies- whatever’s edible

Reading- Redneck sticks to comic books. Hillbillies look at only pictures, including naked women, although he doesn’t believe women look like that in real life.

Wife- A redneck might marry his cousin but not his sister. A hillbilly might marry his sister although he might not know it until the junior cretin is born.

[Palomino_Lover]

The term "Hill-Billies" is first encountered in documents from 17th century Ireland. Roman Catholic King James II landed at Kinsale in Ireland in 1689 and began to raise a Catholic army in an attempt to regain the British throne. Protestant King William III, Prince of Orange, led an English counterforce into Ireland and defeated James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. A significant portion of William III's army was composed of Protestants of Scottish descent (Planters) who had settled in Ulster in northern Ireland. The southern Irish Catholic supporters of James II referred to these northern Protestant supporters of King William as "Hill-Billies"[citation needed] and "Billy Boys"--Billy being an abbreviation of William; the term "Billy Boy" is still used today, mainly in Northern Ireland. The Catholics and Protestants were at war and the terms were not spoken in kindness. Supporters of King William more generally came to be known as Orangemen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillbilly

[PLEASURE PASOFINO]

Thanks you all, for EDUCATING me and many other lookers on the definitions.......


I now see that neither terms should be used...............when engaged on a conversation with strangers.

[pnalley]

Hey...livin' on a road called Molasses Road in East Texas...don't that make me a redneck.... or a hillbilly??? or somethin' like that....


I live on Bottoms road, so what does that make me?? Wait, don't answer that :roll: :roll: :roll:

[Mellifluous]

That is better than living in a town that has a road named "Booger Hollow""

[Jasfino]

We have towns around here named.. Dogwood.. Possum Trot.. and Monkeys' Eyebrow...lol

[CarolU]

Hair- A redneck uses axle grease to slick his back while a hillbilly will uses snot.

Bet he lives on Booger Hollow!

[jodiTowne]

Not sure where I come in. I don't personally enjoy roadkill.

I do live on a road called Wart Road....I had to spill the beans before Barb beat me to it. My town has no store, stoplight, notin'

[motorgypsy]

We live in a hillbilly and redneck "hotbed" because most of the people up near our farm are both. A couple of other observations.

HIllbillies tend to be apolitical. They don't usually vote because they don't think it will do any good. It never has.

Rednecks vote for anyone who promises that they believe in Jesus and will lower their taxes.

Hillbillies tend to be really dirt poor. Their kids quit school to help out at home. Redneck kids quit school to help dad make money at the quarry, harley shop, and so on and have a new corvette paid for by the time they're 21. That redneck riding that Harley can very likely have a million dollar chicken processing plant or Harley dealership. Rednecks can be very very smart and can speak standard English if it means a profit so don't let that accent and bad grammar fool you. It really is just a dialect.

Hillbillies are more sad than mean. Rednecks are more mean than sad.

You're born a hillbilly because your parents are hillbillies. Noone ever converts to hillbilly. Redneck is a "culture" you can convert to. Some of the best rednecks I know aren't even from the south. Think Archie Bunker.

Rednecks work really hard and eat a lot. Hillbillies can't work really hard because they don't have enough to eat or a job. Rednecks drink beer - fancy beer if they're rich. Hillbillies drink homebrew. We had a bunch of stills up on the mountain and the rusted up barrels axed by the "revenooers" are still there. Both our next door neighbors were bootleggers. One got caught and served time in a federal pen. The other never got caught and died very very old and pretty rich too. So some hillbillies do find success but they have a very hard life. Rednecks can have a very hard life also but they usually do just fine financially.

[Barbwire]

Up here, in the hills of Northeastern NY, we are known as "woodchucks". I live on Babcock Lake Road. I can't comment about what people call it when they find out some folks call me Babs, though. :twisted:

[Carol Nelson]

What've you all been drinkin' here....??????


Bet it ain't just Red Bull.... :lol:

[motorgypsy]

It funny though now that I think of it I remember as a small child my mother referring to some people a couple of times as "hillbillies". They talked funny, looked very poor and were definitely missing some teeth. This was either in Chicago or Columbus (Ohio). Guess they were up there trying to get a job because that was when it was really really bad in Appalachia. Long long ago before you guys were born. But it must still be pretty bad because Kyle's young cousin (female) is a skydiver and went up to the New River bridge I guess in W VA for a base jumping thing and came back totally creeped out because they got lost and had to stop and ask for directions and the living conditions were very very bad. And she's a native South Carolinian but not a hillbilly. We're the hillbillies of the family living up in them thar hills with the moonshiners all around us. Kyles daddy used to buy and drink the stuff. Amazing it didn't kill him!! :roll: :roll: :roll:

[JennLM]

Troy said last night he truly felt like a redneck. It was about 11:30pm at night and the bad foster dog ripped out the flashing and got under the house and stuck under the porch. Got him out and had to put some fencing up along the backside of the house to prevent it temporarily. He was dressed in sweatpants and booots, no tshirt LOL Pounding a tspost in. I'm just glad most the neighbors were gone because the sound of them (3 of them) being banged in is loud as most of you know.

[Soltera]

motorgypsy - You're killing me with the Redneck/Hillbilly comparisons. Got it spot-on right, for sure. But economic conditions in western NC, at least, are as bed as they've been for 100 years: in our county alone we've lost more jobs than you can shake a stick at (not recommended while riding a horse...). All our textile and furniture jobs were lost to overseas interests. Thing is, those jobs paid well ($12-$16) and all that's left are mostly under $8/hr.

Hillbillies are still sad.

We need more humor, now....

[lisa l aka marci]

Hey...livin' on a road called Molasses Road in East Texas...don't that make me a redneck.... or a hillbilly??? or somethin' like that....


I live on Bottoms road, so what does that make me?? Wait, don't answer that :roll: :roll: :roll:

I have to turn onto "Hyney Hill Road" to get home....so what does that make ME?!?!?!?!?!