Jean Shepherd, you might know him as the writer and narrator of the seasonal classic "A Christmas Story," writes descriptively about the hillbilly. He, too, lived among them... and grew to despise the hillbilly.
Here's his dead-on description of what happens when the hillbilly family, "The Bumpuses" move into his neighborhood:
"Overnight, the entire neighborhood changed. The Taylors, a quiet family who had lived next to us for years moved out and--without warning--the Bumpuses had flooded in. There were thousands of them! The house seemed to age in a week. What had been a nondescript bungalow became a battered, hinge-sprung, sagging, hillbilly shack."
Many of us can relate.
Here's his dead-on description of what happens when the hillbilly family, "The Bumpuses" move into his neighborhood:
"Overnight, the entire neighborhood changed. The Taylors, a quiet family who had lived next to us for years moved out and--without warning--the Bumpuses had flooded in. There were thousands of them! The house seemed to age in a week. What had been a nondescript bungalow became a battered, hinge-sprung, sagging, hillbilly shack."
Many of us can relate.
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