Heads up. History of Hillbillies on THC Sunday 8pm

There was a style in San Francisco for awhile to cut the butt-cheeks out of jeans that way.

Back when I lived in the Ozarks I could count all of the money I had in the bank without taking my shoes off also. Sometimes didn't even have to use both hands.

I watched most of the show last evening, very informative. The long narrative about the Clinchfield railroad was curious with much of the footage being filmed close to here. All those tunnels and switchbacks for the railroad as it descends the front of the Blue Ridge are just 5 to 10 miles North of me. The Over-the Mountain Victory Trail that the militia from the Nation of Watauga (now NE Tenn.) used to walk to the Battle of King's Mountain came right thru here also.

At the battle of King's Mountain 900 men with hunting rifle's attacked a Redcoat army of 3,000 and standing behind trees to fire at long distance at the British who had gathered in ranks with their short-range muskets, in only an hour and a half, completely killed or captured all the Redcoats losing only 28 men in the militia.

The origin of the term 'redneck' was discussed as well and involved the largest civil uprising in America since the Civil War.

My definition of the geographic location of hillbillies runs from NE Alabama up far Western Maryland (portions of the former slave-holding states) and includes Northern GA, East TN, East Kentucky, most of West Virginia, Western Virginia, Western NC and far NW SC.

These areas were settled by Europeans 50 to 100 years before the Ozarks and of course many areas from Pennsylvania right up to Maine have hilly terrain occupied by codgers.

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Well Pancho, I have to agree that there are a lot of poor folks here still.
When I was a child I had a Friend at school that I always thought was from a rich Family. She grew up and became one of our State Representatives. Still is.
I was at a political dinner with her one time and listened to her tell some one about her childhood and realized that she was as poor as I was. Most in this area were back then. There are a few with money here now but most in this immediate area are still low income.

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My mother tells me stump jumpers, ridge runners, and hillbillies but I cain't rightly remember where theyse from.

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