“redneck”
My father’s family were all from SW Ohio.
They used to say; “But for a couple of miles and a river, we would all be briars!”
I was born in Ohio because when my dad discharged from the service Pittsburgh was in one of it’s 20-year downcycles where there are no jobs here, so he and my mom could not immediately return to their hometown.
The benefit for me was that I never picked-up the ear-shredding Yinzer accent that is prevalent around here. However, for years people have remarked that at times
various Southern fried things accents or phrases tend to come out of my mouth.
My mom explained that when I was a toddler in Ohio we were the only non-Kentuckians on the block.