Want To Be Woke? Stop Making Fun of Hillbillies and Rural Folks

The same people who would not dare to say an offensive word about anyone often keep one type of person they are unafraid to ridicule: the dumb hillbilly. A "hillbilly" is a slang term for an unsophisticated person ... usually used by intellectuals to describe people who live in a rural location and who they assume lack formal or higher education.

As this article justifiably argues, if we want to bridge the global divide between those who live in cities and those who live outside them, we all need to find more ways to interact with these so-called "hillbillies," instead of judging or dismissing them based on our own stereotypes of what they believe or who they are.