[BlueLancer]

"And my dear ol’ dad’s answer is “They went to s**t and the hogs ate ‘em.”"

Not "hillbilly" at all. My old Irish grandfather (who was raised in Michigan) always used to say that. I still do ...

[Salamander]

We’re Scots/Irish/Welsh Appalachians.

Those are the origins of “hillbillies”.

In polite company, we shortened it to simply “The hogs ate ‘em”.

Everybody knows the rest.

:)