In did not find that offensive at all. Sometimes you have to have fun with being a redneck hillbilly.
Many decades ago a second cousin of mine took a job teaching in a Chicago school where the class had already run off two teachers. It was a rough group and they thought they'd have no trouble running off this tiny little hillbilly girl. She had five older brothers and grew up way back in the hills, even further than I did and a decade earlier. She had no trouble whipping those kids into shape. She was a darn good English teacher too. She even published some books. Her parents were college educated and were teachers too.
After that set-up, some of the Chicago city people expressed surprise this hillbilly girl was wearing shoes. Their image of a hillbilly was a barefoot Daisy Mae chasing Lil Abner. I'm sure she went barefoot summers when she was a kid. We all did back in the hills. She was no stranger to shoes but she played along. She told them she didn't own a pair of shoes until she moved there to that cold climate. And yes, those shoes she was wearing were really hurting her feet. Wearing shoes just didn't feel natural. She played right along.
She liked to tell that story since it showed how ignorant city folk can be.
