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It's actually a contraction from old English or Scots and has been around since 1631. The hicks are using socialist words that aren't theirs.
*ain't theirs
You uncultured swine. Ain't is a contraction of am not. Am only goes with I. I ain't going to accept illiteracy.
Y'all, it ain't theirs
(The South had a significant surge of Scottish immigrants)
(They're a fuckin "liberal" monarchy.)