Redneck vs Hillbilly

[reklawd]

My Yankee friends joke that I'm a hillbilly, but I always told them I was a redneck. However I've been thinking about it lately ... since I've always lived on the Piedmont I must actually be a hillbilly.

Do you think there is a hillbilly / redneck divide in GA, like the Mason Dixon line? Also, what do you think is the difference between the two?

 

[Bucket99]

Redneck is a flatlander, hillbilly is not

 

[TheGman]

 

[ole ed]

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Gotta have me a hill ta be one'nem hillbillers.

 

[alleycat]

People seem to call themselves rednecks and they call other people hillbilly. They mean different things to different people.

My people are from all over Appalachia....they call each other ‘mountain folk’. Redneck is an insult to them.

 

[TapcoFan]

You might be born a hillbilly, but you choose to be a redneck.

 

[8675309]

hillbilly hears banjos and runs towards it

 

[BDR1]

I'm just a redneck hillbilly...and proud of it

 

[xlr8ngn]

I'm born, raised and educated southern. My brother who can't find a job with a search warrant is a redneck.

 

[BDR1]

Hmmm...ok