hillbilly
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Stewart didn’t go for polyester suits or arenas, preferring the rough and rowdy “skull orchards” around Fort Pierce where he could alternate between hillbilly rock and progressive bluegrass.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
Or as Vance once put it: "To understand me, you must understand that I am a Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart."
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025
He’s a hillbilly, an elegist, and a Yale Law School graduate.
From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2025
"Mountain Justice" pits a hillbilly father against his daughter who, Nugent wrote, “picked up her new-fangled notions at a nurses' training school.”
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2024
How I hated Colby and all those hillbilly kids and this nasty old house hanging off the side of the mountain and those canning jars in my room and especially those Cinderella pillowcases.
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
"It's cool there's a spot for hillbillies like me," says Top.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
From the moment I learned about hillbillies as a child, I was entranced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2024
The discourse around "hillbillies" shifts according to the country's mood.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2020
“The people up here, even the hillbillies like me, we would go down with our guns and stand outside the front gate of Islamberg to protect them,” Lonsberry said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2019
With just 10 days left, few self-described hillbillies in southwest Virginia are undecided.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2012
