hillbilly
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thumb|375px|The Hatfield–McCoy feud|Hatfield clan (1897)
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thumb|375px|The Hatfield–McCoy feud|Hatfield clan (1897)
Hillbilly is a term historically used for people who dwell in rural, mountainous areas in the United States, primarily in the Appalachian region and Ozarks. As people migrated out of the region during the Great Depression, the term spread northward and westward with them.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “hillbilly” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.