Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Stereotyping

State of the Arts: Cultural double talk

Review of Hillbilly Land, a contemplative and text-heavy new exhibition, curated by author and UNC Asheville history professor Dan Pierce.

Whether you embrace the word proudly or decry it as a derogatory epithet, the Hillbilly term, and stereotype, is cemented in America’s mind.

People of the Appalachian Mountains are still the only cultural group in America that many people have the audacity to ridicule publicly.

In the mid ’30s De Beck abandoned Spark Plug, subordinated Barney, and brought bodacious Hillbilly Snuffy Smith to the fore.

Al Capp’s comic strip starred Li’l Abner Yokum, the lazy, dumb, but good-natured & strong hillbilly who lived in Dogpatch.

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