07/22/2012 04:45:59

The Elixirs wrote "Europe? No kidding.  The way I understand it, hillbillies, at least here in America, are a strange breed. Most live in shotgun shacks and work on dirt farms, when they have jobs at all. After they come home and boil the dirt they've farmed, they spend the rest of the evening fornicating with any and all available relatives and pets. To take a break from all that incest and bestiality, and incestuous bestiality, they turn on the TV and watch a wealthy, private school-educated comedian named Dan Whitney, who pretends to be a cable repairman, and yet is somehow a health inspector. I don't entirely understand it, myself. Um, yeah...sorry for rambling again." Well, its a cliché picture of their life, but I get what you are after, we got them too. Exept that most cant manage a farm. More likley they just got a shit job, if even that.

07/22/2012 04:40:45

Swedish Hillbillys are very fashinated by Elvis, American Mid west, Southern state cultures and are often more or less racists and haters. Their special kind of pop culture is called "Raggare" (People that pick up girls in their cars). Often with the confederate flag as their symbol. In the seventies and eighties they were the natural enemy of the punks. Then they got ousted by White power skinheads and out law bikers that recruted their people so the Raggare culture lost its popularity. Todays young raggare are more a punk culture hype, I think.

 

07/22/2012 04:25:00

Back from the deep woods again. Where there are working Phones, internet and daily newspapers. 

The nothern part of Sweden is a bit like Alaska. Not as big mountins but all woods, lakes, streams and wild life and not too many people. The one that are there arnt too clever. Not the sharpest knifes in the tool box with that "red neck" attitude, "I hate everything Stockholm, drinking home brew, not being to or looking too clever" kind of people. Not as bad as your Hillbillys but still recognized as such. 

 

My dad and my Mother tells local stories about the ones that are most likley fathers to the half of the county. Inbreading, that are officially denied, but a fact. 

Its miles to the nearest neightbours. It can be days before you can see another human exept our family. My Dad grew up there. He got the hell out of there at age 16 and thought he would never comeback. He joined the Airforce just to get out of there. The more clever of this 7 siblings did the same. One went to America to become an Architect. The rest are dead now. But to be honest. most of them that didn´t got the hell out of there wern´t to clever. 

American Hillbillys are a special breed, I know. But they came from somewhere. The type can be spotted over here as well. Especially out on the countryside. Like those out of town persosns where I grew up in the rural part of western Sweden.

07/17/2012 09:43:54

That makes a lot of sense...around these parts, the name redneck is applied more commonly to the working-class hillbilly. It's funny how words fall in and out of use and how the definitions evolve over time. Dang, now i have a hankering to read an etymology textbook! 

07/16/2012 18:29:48

I've always associated the term "Red Neck" with somebody who works out doors in the hot sun for a living and has the sun on their back at all times to the point where they back of their neck gets sun burned. Farmers, construction workers, journey men, and caucasian members of a chain gang, and their guards, or "Bosses". Before it became a derogatory term, the word "Red Neck" was once a badge of honor. It meant you worked hard for your money.

07/16/2012 09:47:20

Red Neck? Oh you know, that first "farmers tan" of the summer... Down here in Hoosier-land we ofter interchange hillbilly with redneck, also maybe I should have clarified the second redneck as "Injuns"? Sorry, but I'm not too good at (or comfortable with) using racial slang terms [correctly]. But what the hell, I gave it my best.      

07/16/2012 06:10:46

Well, now. That depends on what you mean by "Red Neck"

07/16/2012 04:52:46

LOL I have no reason to doubt you Adam,and I want to apologize to Punk Eriksson and say, I mean no disrespect by harping on the hillbilly aspect of your blog and basically ignoring the rest of it but I am wondering; did the original inhabitants of what is now America have their own version of the hillbilly as well? Were there pockets of redneck rednecks? to ask it bluntly.

07/15/2012 17:09:49

All of European origins, I assure you.

07/15/2012 06:41:02

Europe? No kidding.  The way I understand it, hillbillies, at least here in America, are a strange breed. Most live in shotgun shacks and work on dirt farms, when they have jobs at all. After they come home and boil the dirt they've farmed, they spend the rest of the evening fornicating with any and all available relatives and pets. To take a break from all that incest and bestiality, and incestuous bestiality, they turn on the TV and watch a wealthy, private school-educated comedian named Dan Whitney, who pretends to be a cable repairman, and yet is somehow a health inspector. I don't entirely understand it, myself. Um, yeah...sorry for rambling again.