Talk:Hillbilly Highway

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 19 January 2021 and 30 April 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Emmadeitz. Peer reviewers: Turnwaldm, JSchultzJr, Aer0033, Tanner2021.

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Most or 35%?[edit]

The article reads “During holidays and lay-offs, most of the migrants went back to their old homes.[20] During lay-offs in Flint, MI, as many as 35% of the migrants would return to their old homes.”

So is it most (over 50%) or only 35%? Or is it most in Detroit and 35% in Michigan? IllQuill (talk) 03:09, 5 May 2020 (UTC) "Between 1918 and 1972, roughly five million people made this journey along the so-called “hillbilly highway,” a demographic event exceeded during the twentieth century only by the Great Migrations and the westward migration of the Dustbowl period and after." This could be added to the intorduction of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Emmadeitz (talk • contribs) 20:20, 26 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The word "HillBilly"[edit]

I am going to add to the beginning introduction on how the origin of the word hillbilly is of Scottish origin and in Scotland the term "hill-folk" referred to someone who preferred to be isolated from society while the term "billy" was referring to someone who was a comrade or companion. Aaron8449 (talk) 21:31, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This origin is disputed and not certain. See discussion under the main article on "Hillbilly". I don't think it needs to be in this article, especially in the introduction. Eastcote (talk) 18:22, 31 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]