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...belying the town's, and Japan's, current economic slump. You won't see any orange-haired punk city kids, though; little Shimoda feels about as removed from the Babylonian crush of Tokyo as one can get. And yet, perhaps because of its special history, Shimoda is no Japanese hick town. There are English and Portuguese buttons on the atms. No one yelled "gaijin!" at me as I walked down the streets. There are funky bars like JaJah and Cheshire Cat that play soul and jazz. Indeed, the mongrel past is a source of pride for some inhabitants...
...Trapper managed a near-perfect set. The keyboard he found in his attic was not the only surprise instrument that Trapper pulled out during his Passim stint—warning the audience that he was “about to prove how much of a white-trash hick I am,” Trapper risked “be[ing] kicked out of the band” and backed the usually raucous “Minnesota” with a simple banjo. Trapper’s fast fingers and mastery of the instrument left the audience hoping for future banjo...
...about the 30 percent who opposed Proposition 419? Most were young, but they're leaving. According to a recent Omaha World-Herald survey, one-third of Omaha residents younger than 35 said they definitely or probably would move from Omaha within five years. "It's still got the whole hick, backward national impression," one of them said...
...describes himself as a "West Coast sort of hick"--he's from a small town in British Columbia, population 5,000--who nevertheless overcame his doubts early...
...ranch. His father and grandfather had farmed and ranched there. While Johnson used the ranch as a retreat, he tried to make it pay too. He had a foreman who lived on the property and bred Hereford cattle for show. Johnson hated being thought of as a hick, but he never repudiated his heritage. That ranch was where he began...