No, but they hear those funny drawls, see the mullets, beehives and red MAGA hats, the trailer homes and think—we’re so much better! We have nice velvety voices, well coffered hair in the latest styles, and beautiful mansions and McMansions. We’re on TV and stage! We’re nothing like these ignorant, stupid, filthy hillbillies!
Yet they are, just as you said. Hunter is. And Joe definitely.
Yet even the redneck and hillbilly can know they’re poor and know they’re looked down upon by the Coastals, the Yankees and the well-heeled.
The elites think they are smart, sophisticated, erudite and immune to all that ails “common” folk.
And that’s what pisses me off. The superior way they think about us, as if we’re another species. It’s worse than racism, really.
I don’t like to see it fed.
Here’s a song to listen to while you think about it:
Steely Dan - Show Biz Kids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SR48XA3hss
True enough, but that was the case going back centuries. Elizabethan poets called country folk “clowns” in their plays, and made fun of their poor command of the languages spoken in England at that time, Latin, Norman French, the hybrid that came to be known as English, and so it went on down to Ma and Pa Kettle, the Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres, not to mention Pete’s Dragon.
This documentary, however, is not like that. It has authentic people speaking the dialects of Kentucky and West Virginia, reformed junkies, a seasoned sheriff, living their lives, telling about what drugs did to them and their families, and what it meant to get free of it, friends and family who are still hooked or even died in that life.
The hoity toities will always look down on the poor and the rural folks, basically because they are stupid, and being prejudiced against blacks is now out, so they have to direct their malice somewhere else.
But this fellow is doing what he can to battle that prejudice with truth. He’s done a whole series of documentaries along this line. Recently saw a really good feature film, Where the Crawdad Sings, which showed the prejudice of well off town folk in South Carolina against a poor girl living in the marshes. Really well done murder mystery.