Last night there was a special documentary about people who live in the Appalacian hills [hillbillies by one account] on HBO. Go to HBO's web site, there is an interview with Rory Kennedy, the movie's producer. My mom was born in Russell County Virginia (not to far from the Kentucky border) and I went with her to visit my grandparents many times while I was growing up. I thought the movie did a very good job of showing how it is back in there. Several of my relatives still live just like that in those hills, although I was raised in Southern California. I thought it was a spectacular piece of film. I can't wait for it to come on again. (Also, I haven't heard that accent in a long time. It really made me miss my grandparents.)