“He is a cowboy, not a hillbilly.”
When I worked overseas, a Brit tried to insult several of us Texans by calling us “a bunch of cowboys”. He got so frustrated as we agreed with him saying “damn straight we are”. He didn’t know how to respond so he kept repeating it trying to insult us. We kept taking it as praise and confused him to no end.
Nothing more provincial than a liberal elitist, but we have a whole strain of conservative that is there to tell us how great and powerful and morally superior liberals are.
The Los Angeles Times demonstrates the liberal intellect -— name-calling.
I always loved it when Man played Graham. Graham calls its teams the ‘G-Men’. I called their cheerleaders the ‘G-Strings’.
Man, that LAT idiot needs a geography lesson. Perry isn’t a hillbilly, he’s a cowboy or cowpoke. Hillbillies are an Appalachian thing, crackers come from Florida, rednecks are a little more generic but more of a Carolina-and-further-south species. Get a clue about your rural etymology, LAT!
(I, by the way, am a product of the finest strain of Caucasian recyclables that central Virginia produces. That’s the politically correct way to say “white trash,” y’know.)
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Where`s yourn`?
Spit-shinin` my bead sight right now.
But New Yorker city-slickers in Albany want to take away our ammo- HELPP!!
The LAT is unquestionably effeminate in its worldview.
I think that only hillbillies should be allowed to say the word “hillbilly”. Anyone that is not a hillbilly that uses the word should be met with violence, a lawsuit, and should be fired from their job, and branded as a biggot.
Rick isn’t from a cowboy tradition. His folks were tenant farmers near Paint Creek, north of Abilene.
Tenant farmers is just a polite term for share-croppers and a dry land farm in W. Texas is probably the nearest thing to desperation in the United States.