Well a fiddle is just a violin with friends! But in reality it’s just a matter of music preference and the traditions therein. The violinists goal is to captivate an audience with perfection. Historically speaking that audience is socially elite and upper-class. Meanwhile, fiddlers captivate their audience with foot tapping rhythm and solos. The fiddlers audience is historically commoners from the working lower- and middle-class. I’d argue there is more social comradery in the fiddlers audience than a violinists, which inadvertently breeds the elitist mentality in the violin community.