Fact is, stereotypes exist, you have to deal with it in one way or other. And, unfortunately, they do exist for a reason.
Aside from the lifted truck with mud on the INSIDE of the windshield (I left some from URE just to remind me of home!), I also have long hair and scraggly beard, and due to some really unusual ocular defects I have pretty squinty eyes AND nystagmus, so I look like I'm stoned all teh time. I get "the look" all the time.
And you know what, I kind of like it.
Let people assume I'm stupid or inbred, that gives me the advatntage.
Once I open my mouth, they learn otherwise pretty quickly...