Hillbillies Are Misunderstood

Hillbillies are Misunderstood.

Hillbilly is a word that is often heard in West Virginia. West Virginia has the

impression of “poor country folk”. The men in West Virginia are portrayed in the

image of coal miners and uneducated. The women give the image of being

pregnant and bare foot in the kitchen. My husband was raised in Chicago and he

took me there several years ago. We met up with a few of his friends and they to

had their opinion about West Virginia. Their exact words to me were, “Before to

long you’ll be pregnant and bare foot in the kitchen, cooking Jeff his dinner.” I told

them that it was not like that at all, but of course they have this mental image of

West Virginia being like that. That’s what they picture. They were brought up to

believe that West Virginia is really like that. That is reality to them.

Another term for that would be called self fulfilling prophecy. That means

people act on the basis of...