These folks claim to be from Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Well, here's a scoop: I live in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and have for the past 20 1/2 years. (Prior to that, I lived in nearby Nashville for about 33 years.) And I have never heard the sort of dialect spoken by these (supposed) Murfreesborians. I have, on occasion, witnessed a similar lack of apparent literacy. But even that is unusual.
The person who posted this is simply playing into a stereotype--and a poorly considered one, at that. It is my understanding that hillbillies of the Tennessee variety (although I have never seen a real, live one, in person) reside principally in Appalachia--which is in the mountainous region of upper east Tennessee, past Knoxville.
The now-defunct TV series Hee Haw probably did a great deal to advance the notion of Nashville (in middle Tennessee) as a mecca for hillbillies. And the Nashville Chamber of Commerce no doubt played along, as this image--albeit a hugely false one--tends to promote tourism, if only out of a patronizing curiosity.
But Tennessee is not dominated by Apalachia (which, by the way, extends into some other states also), any more than Mississippi can be defined by its Delta country or Missouri and Arkansas defined by the Ozarks.
This is just another example of certain stereotyping being considered okay by the politically correct folks--the same folks who would roundly roast anyone who might dare to suggest a forbidden stereotype.
Sounded more like Andy Kaufman than anyone from Tennessee that I know.
It is a “stereotype” but it won’t be branded racist. “It was a joke” you know “A choke, maaaan, jess lighten up eeets funny”. Oh wait, that dialect wouldn’t be PC.
I work in Mboro and am wondering where all the cud-chewers are? Good God that was ridiculous.