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[@Dynamo Frokane]
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.955142-So-are-rednecks-religious-people-the-new-boogeymen-now

I just saw a thread commenting on this. And I guess the only real thing I can add. Is that its been popping up quite a bit recently. And I agree about another comment that they've been on and off bad guys in fiction for decades.
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Yeah this basically agreeing with me, its been a well worn trope in movies, but there are actually only a handful of hick main enemies in videogames. Outlast is a bit of a stretch as most of those guys aren't hicks. Resident evil 4 places you in a rural spanish town of catholic farmers who have been infected by an illuminati expy that has bioweapons I'd argue that's a stretch too, I never saw them as 'hilbillies' but whatever. 


My main and only point on hicks is this

They have been on and off bad guys for decades (popularised by deliverance) in low budget horror movies, and some southern gothica.
But in videogames, compared to communists, cartel members, and yes even middle easterners they are actually very under-represented.