Thorns

I don't think it would be that hard to turn hicks into a race who aren't really white, when I think about it. I mean, a group of people who largely inherit their social positions from birth, with distinct linguistic mannerisms and idioms (I'm assuming, but I'd be surprised if it was far off the mark), cultural traditions, codes of appearance, social expectations, etc. It gets even worse if you stick social desirability into it, because, of course, there'd be a raft of social rules about marriage and public association. You don't marry a hick, for instance. And you don't associate with them where people can see. And if you're divorcing race from skin colour (which you have to do, really. Or (if I'm more charitable to some ideas) which the discussion on this entry has so far assumed), then I don't really see the problem with assuming that hicks and bogans, at least in some cases, form their own little race dominated by the white hegemony.