How has the term hillbilly been reclaimed or redefined over time?

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In the late 1960s and early 1970s working-class white people began to reclaim “hillbilly” as a point of pride. The 1976 election of former Georgia peanut farmer Jimmy Carter and the best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy by future senator and vice president JD Vance further embraced the values of a simpler life as admirable.