Word: hillbillyism
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But last week it became clear that Tennessee would hear more from Clement−lots more. At age 42, he made a political comeback by beating two other men in a primary, which virtually assures him the governorship in November. He Won the way he always has−with words...
Angel's Talent. Agee met Father Flye at St. Andrew's School near Sewanee, Tenn., where the young Rufus (as Agee was then called) went shortly after the death of his own father. To the teacher-priest, Rufus seemed a sort of wonderful, shy, gifted hillbilly. For once...
Faubus' voice, magnified by a sound truck, filled the tiny square, ripped through the still, oppressive heat and bellowed out over the whole town. Pausing only to drink from a red paper cup or wipe his sweating face with a handkerchief, Faubus appealed to his listeners as "my kind...
Mostly descendants of Scotch-Irish immigrants who settled in the Appalachians in the early 18th century, the migrants were long isolated by their mountain barriers from the mainstream of U.S. life. Settling down to a slow-paced, hand-to-mouth and inbred way of life, they became famed chiefly for...
PERHAPS your taste runs to the American Heritage. For the pigeonholing mind there are a great many subtle and not-so-subtle distinctions to be made between hillbilly, bluegrass, old-timey, country, mountain, and western folk music. The only way of lumping them together is to point out that all...