hillbilly

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

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

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

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.

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.