<p>A hick is a derogatory term for a rural person, not a Southerner... as I've already stated, that applies to 20% maybe 25% of VA's population if that. 80% of VA lives in NoVa, Richmond, Hampton Roads, or the suburban areas in between.</p>
<p>Since when did I imply that all Southerners are hicks? I just said there are more hicks proportionally in VA than in California; much less than 20% of CA population (I've lived there) is hicky. The figure is probably less than 5%, largely due to the influx of Mexican immigrants, amongst other things. </p>
<p>And to Untilted, read the following:</p>
<p>"The polo shirt prevails because it is an elitist garment, polo being the one sport that is never, ever played in the ghetto. Similarly, the prep style of going sockless in leather shoes is an elitist statement: My feet don't smell.</p>
<p>The horrid pastel colors of prep -- the putrid pinks and livid lavenders, the mutant greens, the biopsy yellows -- come straight from the palette of the 1950s, which was the high age of corporate capitalism. "</p>
<p>Hmm, I still don't think you know what a 'hick' is, and plenty of people here beg to differ from your point of view about how many 'hicks' are in CA. I realize you lived in CA, but given how ignorant you are about the school you go to I wouldn't be surprised if the same held true for CA.</p>
<p>Edit: Why did you even talk about it in the fist place if it's not even relevant to anything?</p>
<p>Lol, I don't get the big deal you're making out of my first statement in my post regarding hicks. You've somehow associated it as though I were saying that UVA students are hicks, and that certainly wasn't what I said. Yet again, plenty of people also differ from your definition of how many hicks there are in VA. So if you want to say there's about 20% of hicks in VA, then you're also wrong.</p>
<p>lol, I don't get the big deal you're making out with people wearing polo shirts but whatever.</p>
<p>I would tend to agree that large portions of Virginia have "rednecky" characteristics, but you must understand that they, like much of rural America, face socioeconomic challenges that few of us can fully understand. Much like the residents of southeast DC or the barrios of southern California, the residents of the rural south are an unfair target of discrimination and defamatory statements.</p>
<p>The big deal relates to the subject of this topic, which is related to how preppy UVA students dress.</p>
<p>"The polo shirt prevails because it is an elitist garment, polo being the one sport that is never, ever played in the ghetto. Similarly, the prep style of going sockless in leather shoes is an elitist statement: My feet don't smell.</p>
<p>The horrid pastel colors of prep -- the putrid pinks and livid lavenders, the mutant greens, the biopsy yellows -- come straight from the palette of the 1950s, which was the high age of corporate capitalism. "</p>
<p>Man, where did you get this passage? Whoever wrote it is pretty pathetic.</p>
<p>When gentlemen engage in the sport of polo, they wear button down shirts, not polo shirt. You wear polo shirt in tennis (which you love) and golf. That's why polo shirts are often referred to as tennis shirts or golf shirts. It really doesn;t have anything to do with the sport polo. What I think happened is that Ralph Lauren used his genious marketing technique to advertize his tennis/golf shirts under the brand "Polo", so people begin to call it the polo shirt. </p>
<p>Going sockless was initially started by sailors who wear the boat shoes on the deck. You don't wear socks on the deck because you don't want to walk around in soaked socks. Then, these people began to wear moccasins and loafers sockless as well in the summer.</p>
<p>Whoever wrote that passage is not only pathetic, he/she is probably a communist who advocates equal wealth for all.</p>
<p>Edit: I doubt people do much differential equation problems in the ghetto, you think differential equation is elitist? A lot of people from the ghetto don't use condoms, is using condoms elitist? Ghetto people usually lack an appreciation for the finer things because they are not fortunately enough to get exposed to them. It's unfortunate.</p>
<p>Furthermore, you guys gotta be more liberal, as in more tolerant of what other people wear. I just love to wear a pair of lime green pants embroidered with pink pandas. If you don't tolerate it, you are way too conservative and close-minded. Fratboys NEVER criticize the people who wear T-shirts and jeans because most of them tolerate T-shirts and jeans, why can't you tolerate the fratboys too?</p>
<p>because they themselves are subject to criticism. and i recall you having to admit yourself that the prepiness in uva is bland and people don't have a sense of fashion here. and to correct you, tennis players don't wear polo shirts. they wear climacool shirts. fratboys wear both polo and buttoned down shirts - either one.</p>
<p>stupidest debate ever. it's just clothes.</p>
<p>Clothes don't make the person man...</p>
<p>Personally, I think that people that are calling Virginians "hicks" shouldn't be worried about whether a school is preppy or not. It would be nice if people actually veer away from stereotypes.</p>
<p>No, Preppy is more than clothes, it is a lifestyle and for someone to generalize an entire lifestyle and those who perscribe to it as stuck up is kind of derrogatory and insensitive. I'm not a jerk who gets offended by idiotic remarks like this but I merely felt like pointing this out to everyone who spent hours arguing over whether "hicks" was racial, or geographical (which it is), or insenstive (which it is too).</p>
<p>ha not all of us down here are hicks :-) (i'm from Radford-bording Montgomery County which is actually one of the least hickish places in this part of the state). I hate stereotyping people, but i really do want to know the general attitude of the student population. UVA is a great school but it just doesnt really seem the place for a hippyish low-key guy like myself. Then again, the people i know who went there love it</p>
<p>wears ties to football games/proud of "secret societies"/thinks they are on par with Princeton and Duke. Res ipsa loquitor.</p>