Mine are like the Drúedain. Reclusive and unfriendly.
Notably, Tolkien may have based some ideas of hobbits on the citizens of Kentucky:
Tolkien's Ol' Kentucky Hole?
Hobbits in Kentucky
I went to internet phone books and found no entries for Baggins, Tooks or Bracegirdles, no Brandybucks (there's a Meriadoc Brandybuck living in Florida, though!), but several Burrows and Grubbs and a few Proudfoots.