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What is it with Hollywood and Hillbillys?


They're always portrayed as incestuous, retarded, racist and homicidal?

Yes, the south had it's race issues, but talk about showbiz agenda?

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Because caricatures of stereotypes are pretty entertaining to everyone except the ones getting stereotyped. And hollywood entertains

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Hillbillies have no one to speak for them so they can be raped in perpetuity.

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