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Have you ever taken a road trip through the South and tried to downplay your cleanliness and intelligence so you don't upset the locals?
I’m to north to know what the deep southern hillbillies are like but I feel like I wouldn’t want to be gross just to fit in with them.
I feel like the southerners are smarter honestly. Probably not with math but a lot of them fix their own cars, build their houses, grow food, hunt, repair things. Southerners are very independent ppl.
I don't think hillbillies exist today. I've lived in the deep south twice and never met any more dumb or unclean people there than other places. I will say though that the southern accent sounds unintelligent however, but this has nothing to do with intellect. It's just their traditional way of speaking.
I have lived many years in the Deep South, and for the most part I have never really experienced backwoods people like the type you are describing.
I do kinda remember some people in Greenville, Mississippi with awful oral hygiene, and I have seen some raunchy looking people while passing through some parts of Arkansas.
I would NEVER neglect my own personal hygiene for the sake of putting other less civilized people at ease. All I can do is what I would do anywhere, be polite, but respectfully keep my distance of course.
When I was shopping at this Pennsylvania Dutch market here in Delaware an Amish, or Mennonite man passed by me, and he had a definite aroma about his person.
No way dude, I remember stopping at this big store I never heard of in the south, thinking it was similar to wal mart, to pick up a phone charger. turns out it was like a walmart version of farm supply, they had a pen full of 100s of live chickens in there too. They didnt know what a phone charger was (jk, but it took them a minute). I wondered if they hear the "standard american accent" as something unusual, as we would in the north to hear theirs.
I knew a guy that moved to our smalltown in Nashville when he was a teenager and the kid had lived off the grid his whole life. He lived in the sticks, grew his own food, hunted his own meat, had his own livestock, and this kid could build ANYTHING. He was so country you could not understand hardly a word he was saying. Me and my friend Andy took him under our wing and tried to teach him suburb things like that he shouldnt use a giant john deer tractor to mow his half acre lot.
We thought he would get picked on in highschool but the dude turned out to be the biggest pussy magnet ive ever seen. When we were too young to buy alcohol he made his own and supplied everyone. He got more pussy than anyone in school. He'd be at every party cooking deer for everyone on the grill and telling crazy ass stories. Fixed all the girls cars. Dude was a interesting individual.
Got so many crazy stories about that bastard. Dudes a rich af now. Started his own housebuilding business.