Fwd: 16.1469, Sum: American Dialects

[Mullins, Bill]

White southerners are one of the few groups that the Hollywood Liberal
establishment still feels comfortable making fun of.  If you can
establish that redneck in question is a Christian to boot, you've got a
trifecta.

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> Laurence Horn forwarded (with much snippage):
> > 2) A related reason given was that there is a "hillbilly
> accent". This
> >     hillbilly accent has been around TV since the Beverly
> Hillbillies, and
> >     has been very successful in sitcoms.
>
> "The Real McCoys", with a somewhat similar premise (West
> Virginia family moves to California), predates "The Beverly
> Hillbillies" by quite a few years (1957 vs. 1962). (Of
> course, the "hillbilly accent" has been a staple of comedy in
> film for much longer; cf., e.g., "Murder, He Says"
> (1945).)
>
> Jim Parish
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