In the Arkansas Ozarks the fiddlers play jigs all the time. The dancers refer to their individual step dances as jigs and themselves as jig dancers. This will no doubt be confusing to folk from outside the area since the jigs are actually conventional hoedowns played with a 2/4 or 4/4 rhythm. I have been in this area about 30 years and spent a lot of time listening to fiddlers. I have seen only one play what most folks would call a jig and the tune he played was Irish Washerwoman. Something he would do on a rare occasion.