This was 16 years ago, but the answer is Tennessee. Bugtussle, Tennessee. Granny once gave Jethro a Tennessee volunteers uniform to wear when he was going to join the army and back home is the Tennessee hills. (the movie made them from Arkansas for the
purpose of a Bill Clinton joke). Hooterville is in an undisclosed state in the south. The Douglasses traveled by air with Arnold to California. Pearl Bodine and Kate are cousins. This was explained when the clampetts traveled to Hooterville.

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On 6/23/2020 4:16 AM, billyarnezz@gmail.com wrote:

This was 16 years ago, but the answer is Tennessee. Bugtussle, Tennessee. Granny once gave Jethro a Tennessee volunteers uniform to wear when he was going to join the army and back home is the Tennessee hills. (the movie made them from Arkansas for the

purpose of a Bill Clinton joke). Hooterville is in an undisclosed state in the south. The Douglasses traveled by air with Arnold to California. Pearl Bodine and Kate are cousins. This was explained when the clampetts traveled to Hooterville.

Hooterville's state is not "undisclosed"...it's made quite plain in one
episode that it's the Kangaroo state....r

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On Wednesday, January 28, 2004 at 9:20:08 PM UTC-5, Randall Bart wrote:

This is off topic for this newsgroup, but it's the sort of trivia which people here tend to know.
Where do the characters on The Beverly Hillbillies hail from? I have
found two town names and three state names, and I would like to know which
is (are) correct. It's possible that they come from two or three places,
one for the Clampetts (Jed and Ellie Mae) one for the Bodines (Jethro, Jethrine and Pearl) and a third Granny (Daisie Mae Moses). I am
deliberately not revealing the town and state names I have accumulated so
as not to pollute anyone's memory.
They do not come from Hooterville. They come from somewhere back east,
and from all evidence Hooterville is in California. There is no real Hooterville CA, but Pixlie CA is a real place and whenever a Hootervillian went to Pixlie they showed the genuine Pixlie CA water tower. There is a
town named Porterville about 20 miles from Pixlie, and I have always
guessed that Hooterville is a named after Porterville, but I may be wrong
on that.
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Clampetts are from Northern Central Tennessee near the Kentucky line. I recently moved to TN and began to notice all the references in the series. Closest "big city" is Bugtussle, KY - per Jed trying to phone home.

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