A few of the responses to this perfectly innocent post have led me to believe that some people see the words "redneck" and "hick" as one and the same thing. However, when I use the word "hick," I do not mean an uncultivated, rude, uncouth white man who likes trucks and often finds a snake his boot. My meaning is always and only this: "An unsophisticated provincial person." A hick (like the white male with boots and trucks) is a person from and raised in the limited, dumbing, dim rural world. That person can be of any color, ethnicity, or sex. So, country music is simply music for country people—hicks. If a city person likes country music, then this is something the French call nostalgie de la boue (nostalgia for the mud).