My first impressions when I searched the terms hillbilly and redneck were the very first results, which stated the definitions. While redneck had a more positive light speaking of how this term represented hard workers, the definition for hillbilly however uses negative connotations like “unsophisticated”. Further research also showed that redneck has quite the derogatory connotation and is used pretty interchangeably with the term hillbilly. Both generally relating to people in rural southern areas, poor, of lower intelligence/social class, and just weird. Particularly, political parties labeled hard working, poor farmers who had red necks due to having to work out in the fields. In this case it was used in a mean, condescending way to highlight the poorness of these farmers rather than their hard working nature. In like manner hillbillies are used by groups to refer to the ignorant, poor, rural, white southerners rather than their strong roots and self reliance. Both rednecks and hillbillies have owned up to some general views of the definitions. Hard working southerners who work really hard and don’t ask for hand outs usually identify as rednecks, while hillbillies see themselves as coming from the hills and from rural areas in the Appalachians. Although there are some differences between hillbillies and rednecks, I feel like an individual could be both. An individual could be a hard worker from the rural hills of Appalachia, independent and poor, and also proud of their heritage and what it means to them.