These and a host of other questions eventually confront any one who tries to make sense of the Ozarks as a place, a people, a subculture.
Newcomers find answers to be at best indirect, often evasive or negative.
More consideration, then a shake of the head. No authentic Ozarks place could be identified by my informant, at least not in the late 20th century. You're 25 years too late. The Ozarks is over, it's done with. Somewhere else, somebody else, some other time.