The nominations are all in and the voting now begins for the official Hillbilly Movie.
1. Next Of Kin
5. Pale Rider
6. Rob Roy
7. Thunder Road
Ecosystem members place your votes in the comments. On Sunday afternoon I will announce the winner.
You may have noticed that I added a movie that wasn't in the original suggestions. The movie is Rob Roy. You may ask what a movie about early 18th Century Scottish Highlanders has to do with Hillbilly culture.
Well it has a great deal to do with it. The culture of the Southeastern United States is not Anglo-Saxon it is Anglo-Celtic. That is we speak English (Anglo) but our roots are Celtic, not Saxon. This part of the nation was settled originally by Scotts and Irish many of whom left their native lands during the time frame in which Rob Roy takes place.
If you are familiar with the South and you watch Rob Roy you will see the cultural threads which tie the South to their Scotts ancestors. This is why I think it deserves to be included in a list of Hillbilly movies.
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