Appalachian "nicknames"

[Katie]

All this talk of "hoopies" and "Jersey hillbillies" has me curious
about the various "nicknames" (usually at least faintly derogatory)
for those from Appalachia. In my 33rd year, I heard one that was
new to me. A woman from around Ashland, KY (in the northeastern
"corner" of the state) said of a man we both knew "Oh he's a
cove-ite." I knew immediately what she meant by this and didn't
ask her about the terms provenance. My husband (who is from
Middle Tennessee, near the Cumberland Plateau) claims that the
phrase most probably came from Tennessee because of the abundance
of "coves" in the mountains there. (He also claims that "coves"
are quite different, topographically, from the hollows or "hollers"
of the Kentucky mountains.

So ... does anyone know where "cove-ite" came from. And what about
other Appalachian "nicknames"?

Katie

[Larry of the Flies]

I know that there are areas in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee that are called
"coves". A facorite of tourists is Cades Cove, near Maryville, TN. So perhaps
the cove-ite - Tennessee connection os true.

[Tim Beach]

In article <2hrtp7$g...@s.ms.uky.edu> yun...@ms.uky.edu (Katie) writes:
>
>So ... does anyone know where "cove-ite" came from. And what about
>other Appalachian "nicknames"?
>
>Katie
>

When I lived in Middle Tennessee, I often heard the people who lived on the
Cumberland plateau (Towns like Tracy City and Sewannee) called covites,
especially by students at the University of the South. It was not
an endearing term.

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[Steven Vest]

Growing up in Dayton, Ohio, the word we used for anyone considered to be
a "rustic" was "Briar". As a matter of fact, we almost never heard the
Polish jokes that are so common elsewhere. We always heard the same joke
with the word Briar instead of Pollock. I do know that the term Briar
shows up in the Dictionary of American Regional English under the heading
"Brier Hopper". "Hoopie" shows up as well and is listed as primarily in
use in Ohio though I never heard the term growing up there. Covite
doesn't show up though.

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[JAWA...@ukcc.uky.edu]

In article <vest.759515284@alpha>

You refer to pollock ....Isn't that a fish? Do you mean pole-ack in stead?