hillbilly vs redneck
Definitions
noun
- a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person
Examples
It's got the whole indie-hillbilly thing going, with lots of mandolins and footstomping and fuzzy guitars etc but it's all just a little flat.
This time around, the focus is on gospel-based material rather than bluegrass and hillbilly music.
The instruments of a hillbilly jamboree are pots, jugs, and any other basic items.
Definitions
noun
- a poor White person in the southern United States
Examples
I worried also about the nature of our neighborhood, which is a redneck Shangri-La of big dawgs, trucks with bad mufflers, heavily armed Gomers, and gangs of marauding feral boys with BB guns.
While the word is not always used in disparagement, it is never used as a compliment except as a possible term of affection among close friends just as a close Alabama friend of mine might exclaim to this Alabama boy, "Bubba, you ole redneck, how are you?
Ed Norton stars in this film about twin brothers -- one a professor at Brown University, the other a redneck -- who come back together in Oklahoma when the ne'er-do-well, marijuana-dealing brother is implicated in a criminal matter.
