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Introduction	Hillbilly Baubles is a home crafting business specializing in hand stamped jewelry, wire wrapping and upcycling vintage finds.Let I'm your not so basic Hillbilly. I'm born and bred in Tennessee, I sound just like Elly May Clampet, but I am NOT a redneck LOL. The term Hillbilly has a lot of negative connotations that go with it, and I'd like to see it changed. According to Anthony Harkins in Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon, the term first appeared in print in a 1900 New York Journal article, with the definition: "a Hill-Billie is a free and untrammeled white citizen of Alabama, who lives in the hills, has no means to speak of, dresses as he can, talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it, and fires off his revolver as the fancy takes him." The Appalachian region was largely settled in the 18th century by the Scotch-Irish, the majority of whom originated in the lowlands of Scotland. Harkins believes the most credible theory of the term's origin is that it derives from the linkage of two older Scottish expressions, "hill-folk" and "billie" which was a synonym for "fellow", similar to "guy" or "bloke".

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Hillbilly Baubles is a home crafting business specializing in hand stamped jewelry, wire wrapping and upcycling vintage finds.Let I'm your not so basic Hillbilly. I'm born and bred in Tennessee, I sound just like Elly May Clampet, but I am NOT a redneck LOL. The term Hillbilly has a lot of negative connotations that go with it, and I'd like to see it changed. According to Anthony Harkins in Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon, the term first appeared in print in a 1900 New York Journal article, with the definition: "a Hill-Billie is a free and untrammeled white citizen of Alabama, who lives in the hills, has no means to speak of, dresses as he can, talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it, and fires off his revolver as the fancy takes him." The Appalachian region was largely settled in the 18th century by the Scotch-Irish, the majority of whom originated in the lowlands of Scotland. Harkins believes the most credible theory of the term's origin is that it derives from the linkage of two older Scottish expressions, "hill-folk" and "billie" which was a synonym for "fellow", similar to "guy" or "bloke".