Posted on 07/26/2022 4:14:02 AM PDT by Rebelbase
I was born and raised on the High Plains. When dad got a wild hair up his behind and decided to move to the Ozarks, back in the 1950s, it was not a good place for an outsider, even if white, to be.
If your grand dad was not born there then you don’t belong there.
Never heard of segregation till Little Rock blew up. Had to ask dad. When he told me, I was in shock remembering all the various kids I went to school with in the Rocky Mountain-High Plains area.
Lots to think about in that movie regarding human survival and civilization and humans being good stewards of the wild, natural world.
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Beatty is a pretty evil good ol’ boy sheriff. R.G. Armstrong is good, too. The sequel kinda sucks.
The hand from the water scene was pure horror. Went a million miles further than things like this ever will;
“This is the first Hellraiser movie to have a female Pinhead.”
Was looking forward to this year’s “Hellraiser” reboot until I saw that.
The sequel was ‘Gator’ with Jerry Reed as the bad guy.
My dad spent his teen years in Arkansas...1950s. For years he carried in his wallet a clipping from the local paper. A real estate agent had taken out an ad to say that rumors of a car full of Negroes parked in front of his office were not true.
I went to my Aunt’s funeral way up in the moutains northwest of Asheville a couple weeks ago.
That mountain culture shown in deliverance— died with the pill back in the 1960’s. Before then the mountain men would have 20-30 kids by several wives. They’d wear out one wife and get another. Their front yards showed every car they’d ever driven for the previous 50 years. The schools were filled with children.
With the pill —all that went away.
Now things are different. Given a choice the mountain women won’t have but a couple kids or less. So a lot of schools have shut down in the mountains. The mountain hollows are not rural ghettos. They’re not rich but they all show a sense of self respect.
An interesting comment made by thomas sowall is that that pre 1960’s white hillbilly rural ghetto culture is what blacks emulated when they come north in the first six decades of the 20th century. The hill billy whites exported all their surplus population to the cities of the north where they had a terrible reputation. That is, their reputation was about the same as that of urban blacks today because the blacks coming north immitated the ghetto ways of the mountain ghetto whites.
Now that culture has disappeared from the mountains—again in part because of the pill—but also because technology has broken the isolation of the region. and of course, new money has come into the area from all over. Now, there is a net inflow of people.
You are so right.
Yeah, I know. Somehow, “White Lightning” morphed into the “Smokey and the Bandit.” franchise. I suspect Hollywood scum were responsible, abetted by a retarded American movie-going public.
Must have been good ole’ Madison County. Close to 50 years ago some folks up there distrusted the government so much they would take pot shots at vehicles with federal government markings. First hand account from a relative who worked with the US Soil Service.
Good observation about the Pill and tech/communication. There are old schools scattered all through WNC that have been repurposed into community centers or sold and being used for various business use.
Back in the day when you asked someone in Asheville where they were from the typical answer was Waynesville, Black Mountain, Weaverville, Barnardsville and the occasional long distance traveler from Marion or Old Fort.
Now people answer, New Jersey, Michigan, California, Colorado and the ever present Florida. The days of isolation are indeed over.
Oh. I thought he was currently in the White House acting as President. Hmm
The actor was geniunely scary and "aroused" physically during the shot.
It really terrified Burt.
I hate this movie. It is terrible. I simply don’t understand how anyone likes it.
LOL
yes it was disturbing....
although thousands of woman have been raped on tv shows and movies and nobody seems to object....
but have one guy get it and all of a sudden its "disturbing"....
You don’t live in my oart of the South
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