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Old 03-04-2012, 11:03 AM
 
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Desert Hot Springs
DHS is definitely different from Palm Springs, but I never thought of it as hillbilly.
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Old 03-04-2012, 11:05 AM
 
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Middletown
Yeah, this is good! Bizarre in that it's 16 miles from Calistoga and 3 miles from a "new age" hot springs.
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Old 03-04-2012, 11:06 AM
 
Location: Indiana Uplands
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Out by Siskiyou county
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Old 03-04-2012, 11:15 AM
 
Location: The Other California
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Rancho Tehama Reserve

A fairly remote settlement in the hills west of Corning (no longer an Indian reservation).

Cheapest real estate in California.

Beware the local vigilantes, however.


The place is not entirely without high culture.

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Old 03-04-2012, 11:17 AM
 
Location: The Other California
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I'd second Oroville. I was tempted to say Bakersfield or Redding,but rednecks seem to have a bit more common sense. Oroville seems to have attracted the real deal. You know, the type guys who play cards over whiskey in old shacks and one guy gets liquored up good shoots his best buddy for cheating. Happened there a few years back.

The hispanics have their hillbilly elements too. Guys drinking and knifing each other in the labor camps. Those places would be in the smaller towns out in the San Joaquin valley. Though a lot of those areas have been overrun with gangs, which are kind of different.
Oroville proper has made a lot of progress in shedding its hillbilly reputation over the last 30 years or so. But it's still the tattoo capital of northern California.
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Old 03-04-2012, 11:52 AM
 
Location: The Other California
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The hispanics have their hillbilly elements too. Guys drinking and knifing each other in the labor camps. Those places would be in the smaller towns out in the San Joaquin valley. Though a lot of those areas have been overrun with gangs, which are kind of different.
Around here some of the Mexican workers enjoy illegal cockfights with high-stakes gambling associated. The rooster farms are in full view of the road - it's not illegal, apparently, just to raise roosters for cockfighting - but the cockfights take place at remote locations in the orchards and ranches. You can buy cockfighting t-shirts and caps in the local stores.

It can be dangerous for spectators, though. Last year a man was killed by rooster at an illegal cockfight in Tulare County.

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Old 03-04-2012, 11:52 AM
 
Location: United States of America
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Out by Siskiyou county
I second this!

Pretty much anything that borders Oregon is hillbilly as the Oregon-side is redneck as well.
Also, Butte County!! REDNECK!!
The surrounding Sacremento-area VERY redneck and Kern County is redneck/hillbilly with a Latino-twist

Going to these places is so weird! It is so odd that these people TOO are Californians! They are just as Californian as a surfer from the OC, an artist from SF, a hippy from Humboldt, and viniculturist from Napa!

Also......if Imperial County had more people it too would be redneck!
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Old 03-04-2012, 11:57 AM
 
Location: The Other California
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I second this!

Pretty much anything that borders Oregon is hillbilly as the Oregon-side is redneck as well.
Also, Butte County!! REDNECK!!
The surrounding Sacremento-area VERY redneck and Kern County is redneck/hillbilly with a Latino-twist

Going to these places is so weird! It is so odd that these people TOO are Californians! They are just as Californian as a surfer from the OC, an artist from SF, a hippy from Humboldt, and viniculturist from Napa!

Also......if Imperial County had more people it too would be redneck!
Wait ... I think we should keep our rednecks and hillbillies straight. Butte County has some of both. I'm partial to the rednecks myself and am often accused of being one of them.
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Old 03-04-2012, 11:57 AM
 
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I second this!

Pretty much anything that borders Oregon is hillbilly as the Oregon-side is redneck as well.
Also, Butte County!! REDNECK!!
The surrounding Sacremento-area VERY redneck and Kern County is redneck/hillbilly with a Latino-twist
Right, the Oregon-California border is another world.
And Butte county does contain Oroville.
Chico, realistically, is the only place in the North State that is NOT redneck. But heck, even Paradise and Magalia, sitting on a hill above Chico, are redneck.
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Old 03-04-2012, 12:00 PM
 
Location: The Other California
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Right, the Oregon-California border is another world.
And Butte county does contain Oroville.
Chico, realistically, is the only place in the North State that is NOT redneck. But heck, even Paradise and Magalia, sitting on a hill above Chico, are redneck.
And Chico itself has its fair share of people the OP would consider "rednecks" (but who in reality are just normal, blue-collar, family-types).
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