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Hillbilly is a term for people who dwell in rural, mountainous areas in the United States, primarily in the Appalachian region and Ozarks. As people migrated out of the region during the Great Depression , the term spread northward and westward with them.
The term "Hillbilly" was first coined in 1899, around the time coal industries made an appearance in the Appalachian communities. [20] In reference to Appalachia, the utilization of the word "Hillbilly" has become such a commonplace that the term is often used to characterize the sociological and geographical happenings of the area.
The Hillbilly Highway was a parallel to the better-known Great Migration of African-Americans from the south. Many of these Appalachian migrants went to major industrial centers such as Detroit, Chicago, [2] Cleveland, [3] Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Milwaukee, Toledo, and Muncie, [4] while others traveled west to ...
Vance's mother's parents, Bonnie Blanton and Jim Vance Sr., whom he called Mamaw and Papaw, were from Jackson, Kentucky, a city of around 2,100 people in the Appalachian region. In "Hillbilly ...
"Hillbilly Elegy," to her, is an out-of-touch story about lazy Appalachian folk who made poor choices, and self-congratulations by the senator for pulling himself up by his bootstraps to get to ...
OpEd: Mr. Vance had virtually nothing to say in “Hillbilly Elegy” about the color of the canaries in coal mines or how Black workers were the last hired and first fired in the American ...
While "Hillbilly Highway" is a metaphor, many Appalachian people who arrived in Detroit literally traveled along "Hillbilly Highways" such as U.S. Route 23 and Interstate 75. [3] [4] In Chad Berry's Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles, he claims that 66,000 white Appalachian people resided in Detroit in 1930.
In "Hillbilly Elegy," he faulted Appalachian culture for keeping his people down. He now insists that it's actually his fellow elites who have destroyed the United States. Mexico, Vance now says ...