I am disagreeing with you, CP, because you are absolutely, positively wrong. Unlike much of my hill living brethren, I have left the hills and moved to the valley where the air is not so thin.
And don't go thinking that every hillbilly would agree with you or me, most would say "I've got no use for movies." or "Hollywood can keep on making queer pictures and I'll keep on watching Andy Griffith.". Me? I say, make your movies and your television shows... we're a capitalist society. If it makes you money, legally, in the end, then it is justified.
And by the way, if you are from one region and move to another does NOT make you a native of that new region. Here, I'll dumb it down for you: You're an idiot. If you move to a room without any idiots in it, you'd still be an idiot.
Hank Williams a cowboy? He was born in Alabama and he had spina bifida occulta, hardly the body condition to be riding on horseback. His music stayle was "Honky Tonk", as well. Which had a lot more similarities with ragtime music than western music.