hillbilly

Example Sentences

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But one of the most remarkable things about King was the diversity of its catalog, which ranged from “hillbilly” music to “race records.”

From The Wall Street Journal

So I was learning all this hillbilly music with my uncle, and then I focused on being an awesome guitar player.

From BBC

Appalachia today includes pockets of extreme poverty and its inhabitants are often offensively depicted as "hillbillies" - simple, unsophisticated and poor.

From BBC

However, Vance has also described himself as a "Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart" in the past, with his ancestors having moved to the Appalachian region in the US more than three centuries ago.

From BBC

Forget the “minutiae of Medicaid policy,” tweeted Vice President JD Vance, supposed elegist of hillbillies and other downtrodden Americans — it’s the extra immigration crackdown cash that counts.

From Los Angeles Times