Gotta disagree with you Red.. much of the South up until Reagan voted Democrat, and for alot longer too. They are Southern CONSERVATIVES, aka DixieCrats. Lumping them in as Republicans is wrong.
You guys forget that rednecks use computers too. I'm from South Carolina. The house I grew up in is about 25 miles from a town of any sort. My grandparents don't read and I grew up hunting and fishing and such (as a pass-time, not a way of making a living). Sure do miss it. I'm in college now. One thing some of you should realize is that though some "backwoods" people are not the brightest in the world, they are almost always some of the nicest, most respecting people you will ever meet (regardless of how the mass media/movie industry has portrayed them).
Red You can't say that stuff about Rednecks and then call them Republicans. Some people like Dameon get all wet in their pantys. lol 
Viper Thank you,
I am from Northeast TN, I have a degree in computer networking and have moved to Atlanta, My company sends me all over in the US and I have never met more friendly people than I have in all of the SouthEast of the US. Nothing wrong with being a redneck or being from the south.
I am from Northeast TN, I have a degree in computer networking and have moved to Atlanta, My company sends me all over in the US and I have never met more friendly people than I have in all of the SouthEast of the US. Nothing wrong with being a redneck or being from the south.
i grew up in S.C. and I says der is abeeg difranse betwix contree folk, rednecks, and hillbillys. I have them all in my family... and a couple different races too... talk about strange family reunions!
As an admitted redneck myself let me explain 4 opinions I hold that I believe generally describe about the redneck psyche:
1) We don't care what you think.
2) If you don't like us, go back where you came from.
3) We are not better than you -- and you are not better than us. If you want to act like you're better than us, then leave.
4) If you act like decent people, we can get along just fine.
Now, how about a story from a redneck about an anti-redneck.
I was going 65 down the highway in my 20 year old $500 pickup and a brand new BMW with New York plates screems up on my tail (I'm Kansan). The jackass follows for a few miles until the next passing zone and pulls out to pass. On the way around he gives me the finger. "Want to play, Rich Boy?" I think. I'm up to the game.
Blowing that guys doors off at 115MPH in a $500 "brown dirty old truck" felt good.
Why? Because he was being a jackass. There was no reason for the finger. If he wants to go 100 in a 65, fine -- pull out and go. Don't taunt me because I'm in a "brown dirty old truck".
1) We don't care what you think.
2) If you don't like us, go back where you came from.
3) We are not better than you -- and you are not better than us. If you want to act like you're better than us, then leave.
4) If you act like decent people, we can get along just fine.
Now, how about a story from a redneck about an anti-redneck.
I was going 65 down the highway in my 20 year old $500 pickup and a brand new BMW with New York plates screems up on my tail (I'm Kansan). The jackass follows for a few miles until the next passing zone and pulls out to pass. On the way around he gives me the finger. "Want to play, Rich Boy?" I think. I'm up to the game.
Blowing that guys doors off at 115MPH in a $500 "brown dirty old truck" felt good.
Why? Because he was being a jackass. There was no reason for the finger. If he wants to go 100 in a 65, fine -- pull out and go. Don't taunt me because I'm in a "brown dirty old truck".
I was driving from NY to Baltimore with a couple of co-workers. We stopped off in a Subway somewhere in Hickland, PA to get lunch. There were two redneck blonde girls behind the counter, both around 20 years old. One said to the other, "My sister is pregnant, again, she's only 17."
Boy, that one sentence packed a whole lot of information about the locals.
Boy, that one sentence packed a whole lot of information about the locals.
Okay I was told I had just encountered a Redneck in Kentucky. I do not mean that in a discriminating term or anything like that. Maybe I am ignorant maybe I'm an asshole but let me explain myself. I've lived in the Long Beach, California ALL MY LIFE!!!! I know what being racist is because I am qualified as an Asian American and I know how it feels to be called names such slant eye, blah, blah. My partners family lived all over the U.S. and have encountered many rednecks so I believed them when they told me the dude that just cut us off was a redneck. Maybe he was a "Southern Jerk" that doesn't know how to drive? Living in the South doesn't automatically say that you are a redneck I never said that. Maybe it was a bad topic to post but now I know. Thanks for all your opinions.
<< , knows the exact time of death of Bear Bryant >>
LOL I do. It was four days after I was born.
Anyways, a lot of people like the Bear and like SEC football. I really don't see how you can call them rednecks. There are lots of rednecks in my town though. They go hunting every weekend, have trucks 50 feet off the ground on huge tires, all their vehicles are splattered in mud and beer drinking is a must. I guess it is a tradition. The term redneck should not be used to describe Southerners though. That is just my .02$.Look Classy, it's a fact, go check the voting record. Much less, it's common knowledge. I'm personally on the border between libertarian and republican, and I don't like it when people purport false things about either one. Check your facts, you'll find that DixieCrats have been ruling the south for a long long time. I'm just doin a fact check here.
I personally am not very fond of the way this thread is going... how everyone feels it's ok to mock and stereotype rednecks. If I said "it seems like every little beautiful ray of sunshine / negro girl around here in south texas gets knocked up before they hit 16, and then go on to have 5 or 6 more." I'd be called several names, I think you would probably be one of the first to burn me at the stake. I do believe this is very much a double standard, and what's worse is that any attempt by rednecks to organize and fight this would be branded the Klan.
We've been over similar ground before, when you called all republicans racist. Now Red is trying to backtrack into it by linking the idea of racist rednecks to republicans. Just cause you sprayed the bullsh!t with Lysol doesn't change that fact it is still BULLSH!T.
I personally am not very fond of the way this thread is going... how everyone feels it's ok to mock and stereotype rednecks. If I said "it seems like every little beautiful ray of sunshine / negro girl around here in south texas gets knocked up before they hit 16, and then go on to have 5 or 6 more." I'd be called several names, I think you would probably be one of the first to burn me at the stake. I do believe this is very much a double standard, and what's worse is that any attempt by rednecks to organize and fight this would be branded the Klan.
We've been over similar ground before, when you called all republicans racist. Now Red is trying to backtrack into it by linking the idea of racist rednecks to republicans. Just cause you sprayed the bullsh!t with Lysol doesn't change that fact it is still BULLSH!T.
starlitt
Never you mind! You come from out West, and it is a whole 'nother world down South.
My family came from Spain to roll cigars 100 years ago... Here in FL, we have "Crackers" from the cracking whips they used to drive cattle. Lots of us latins marry the Southern whites, and we have a name for our children...
"Cracker Spics"
You would be hard pressed to offend me!
Besides, the boys here love a good rumble.
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Rednecks are not confined to the south by any means.
I grew up in Illinois, my high school had a "drive your tractor to school day". If you didn't own a big 'ol pickup truck, camero, or mustang you didn't have a real vehicle, and half of the owned by males in the parking lot had a spitoon in them. When shotgun season came around, 75% of the male student body was absent, and beer drinking on the weekends was usually done in barns or grain bins.
It's almost it's own culture.
I grew up in Illinois, my high school had a "drive your tractor to school day". If you didn't own a big 'ol pickup truck, camero, or mustang you didn't have a real vehicle, and half of the owned by males in the parking lot had a spitoon in them. When shotgun season came around, 75% of the male student body was absent, and beer drinking on the weekends was usually done in barns or grain bins.
It's almost it's own culture.
Starlitt:
Don't twist yourself into a pretzel. People here like to fight.
Lesson one of OT: Don't take this place TOO seriously.
Lesson two: Have fun!
Don't twist yourself into a pretzel. People here like to fight.
Lesson one of OT: Don't take this place TOO seriously.
Lesson two: Have fun!
Who doesn't like a little cat fight every now and then, Right? These guys know how to push the right buttons. Being online for 6 years has taught me not to take things too personal. Thank you much Total.
These guys know how to push the right buttons. Being online for 6 years has taught me not to take things too personal. Thank you much Total.rednecks had an influence on my brother..
We are Azn...goes to a bording skool in asheville, and when he comes home for thanksgiving...hez like he wants a confederate flag in his room and wants to buy a beat up truck and raise it..
I'm like, common on..wherez the lowered preludes and stuff?? He also wants a sawed-off shotgun in his truck too!
O well..jus my 2cents in this topic
Static911
We are Azn...goes to a bording skool in asheville, and when he comes home for thanksgiving...hez like he wants a confederate flag in his room and wants to buy a beat up truck and raise it..
I'm like, common on..wherez the lowered preludes and stuff?? He also wants a sawed-off shotgun in his truck too!
O well..jus my 2cents in this topic
Static911
Lets do a little experiment.
All of you that have shared your enlightened opinions go back and reread your posts but replace the words "redneck", "trailer trash", or however else you've chosen to degrade another human being, with the "N" word. Then you'll see and understand your true nature. You'll realize just exactly who and what you really are. Are you proud of what you see?
All of you that have shared your enlightened opinions go back and reread your posts but replace the words "redneck", "trailer trash", or however else you've chosen to degrade another human being, with the "N" word. Then you'll see and understand your true nature. You'll realize just exactly who and what you really are. Are you proud of what you see?
glenn1
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There are a couple of varieties of 'redneck,' the 'good ole boys' (definitely not cosmopolitan, but good people), and trailer trash. Trailer trash are what perhaps most think of when the term redneck is used... and most of what Red Dawn said is true about them (of course, you forgot that they spend most of their waking hours in AOHell chat rooms and watching Jerry Springer). Trailer trash certainly aren't a simply Southern phenomenon, but then again, southerners haven't come up with a good name for yankees that meet the definition.... calling someone from Michigan or Oregon a "redneck" just sounds kinda silly.
And i don't think this necessarily applies to you Starlitt, but that some folks get a cold reception down south might have something to do with the fact that they're driving a Volvo with New York or Massachussetts plates, and with bumper stickers that support gun control, gay marriage, and "Hillary for President 2004!" How hard is it attempt some camoflague, and rent a 4x4 during your visit, and not ask for Perrier and how the foie gras is prepared when you're at a truck stop or Waffle House? Act interested in things revelant to your audience (even if you could care less), and ask "how do you folks make your ribs taste so good down here? We can't even get them up North" or "how do you think State will do against Tech this year?" (tailor to the locality). I've never had politeness on my part not returned with politeness when i've been down south.
And i don't think this necessarily applies to you Starlitt, but that some folks get a cold reception down south might have something to do with the fact that they're driving a Volvo with New York or Massachussetts plates, and with bumper stickers that support gun control, gay marriage, and "Hillary for President 2004!" How hard is it attempt some camoflague, and rent a 4x4 during your visit, and not ask for Perrier and how the foie gras is prepared when you're at a truck stop or Waffle House? Act interested in things revelant to your audience (even if you could care less), and ask "how do you folks make your ribs taste so good down here? We can't even get them up North" or "how do you think State will do against Tech this year?" (tailor to the locality). I've never had politeness on my part not returned with politeness when i've been down south.
all i have to say format c:, is god damn, that scared the hell out of me...
this thread has really opened my eyes to rednecks (okokokokok) and the populace in general, thanx guys, and may red dawn live forever
this thread has really opened my eyes to rednecks (okokokokok
) and the populace in general, thanx guys, and may red dawn live forever there's poor and there's redneck I went on vacation a couple months ago to yellowstone Passed through some small towns on the way and while crossing the street in a small town some hicks in a large old truck decided to scare my family by almost running us over. Thats a little more then bad behavior.. and they fit the stereotype. I'm asian by the way...that was a scary experience.
I went on vacation a couple months ago to yellowstone Passed through some small towns on the way and while crossing the street in a small town some hicks in a large old truck decided to scare my family by almost running us over. Thats a little more then bad behavior.. and they fit the stereotype. I'm asian by the way...that was a scary experience.<< Hey Format, save it for somebody that gives a sh!t. We are not capping on anybody based on their race, religion, sex or nationality. We sure aren't talking about Jed Clampett and Ellie May. We are talking about the Bubba's who are as comfortable in Hooded White Sheets as they are in Overalls. Your analogy sounds like something we'd hear from a guy who would be doing everybody a favor by stepping off his pedestal before he annoys everyone to tears. >>
Obviously Red you're exceptionally proud of your pompous arrogance. Could you possibly indoctrinate and entertain us with more anecdotal opinions of other groups of humanity that you consider beneath your level of enlightenment? You can use the N word if you'd like as I'm sure you're certainly no stranger to it, nor any other colorfully derogatory term bestowed upon those deemed not to approach your level of superiority.
<< If you can't enjoy a little humor, even if it's at the expense of some of the dumbest bastards that ever walked this green earth, then all I can say is "Tuff Sh!t". >>
Puhlease. Picking on the dumbest bastards to make yourself feel better. Ugh. What's next? Retard jokes? Dsylexic jokes?
If so fine, if you insist:
A retard walks into a bar and says "Ouch!". He steps away, walks into the bar again, and says "ouch!". He steps away, walks into the bar a third time, and says "ouch!". He steps away, walks into the bar AGAIN, and says "ouch!". Finally, his sister comes over and puts his helmet on.
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