In fictional accounts of so-called "Hillbillies" (mostly TV and movie stereotypes), they're depicted as eating/enjoying possums, raccoons and squirrels. Are there REALLY folks in the backwoods country of the USA, who eat those critters?

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yes there are those kind of people. In the south they are called bumpkins.

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