What makes a redneck red?

[leftyman]

Originally posted by: jhayx7

Originally posted by: leftyman

Originally posted by: jhayx7

Originally posted by: leftyman
location location location

There are rednecks everywhere. Even in New York!! *gasp* :Q

315 area code is NY States designated redneck location.

Wiki:

In the greater Rochester area, the term "315er" is an insulting way of referring to residents of the rural area east of Rochester. The term was popularized by Alan Levin, a.k.a. Brother Wease, a host on radio station WCMF in Rochester.[1]

:laugh:

And you thought I was joking

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: nweaver

Originally posted by: purbeast0
it's that raised pickup truck on 35" tires that make you a redneck.

I use it....There are times when you can't get to my in-laws without four wheel drive+chains + lift to get you through the drifts.

btw i'm j/king ...

 

[nweaver]

but you are almost right...driving that truck, and jumping out with my boots on really makes me kinda feel that way at times.....

 

[JDMnAR1]

Originally posted by: nweaver

Aren't redneck/white trash almost totally interchangable?

Nope, not even close, expecially considering the fact that not all your rednecks are caucasian to begin with.

 

[DeadByDawn]

Originally posted by: JDMnAR1

Originally posted by: nweaver

Aren't redneck/white trash almost totally interchangable?

Nope, not even close, expecially considering the fact that not all your rednecks are caucasian to begin with.

Heck no. I've met rednecks that are millionaires. And white trash that are 100% city folk.

 

[nweaver]

Originally posted by: JDMnAR1

Originally posted by: nweaver

Aren't redneck/white trash almost totally interchangable?

Nope, not even close, expecially considering the fact that not all your rednecks are caucasian to begin with.

I would consider Crab Man to be white trash, even though he isn't white

 

[imported_weadjust]

Have you ever lost a tooth opening a beer bottle?

 

[nweaver]

Originally posted by: weadjust
Have you ever lost a tooth opening a beer bottle?

Don't drink, but my brother does....don't think he has lost a tooth from that, but he has lost a few teeth

 

[JM Aggie08]

Originally posted by: nweaver

Originally posted by: JM Aggie08
i lightly consider myself one. i wear boots and ratty jeans to my job, drive a massive '79 blazer. oh and hunting? 6 times a month. it's nothing to be bragging about, just the way i was raised. dont get me wrong, my family and I are well off in our home, circle of friends.

People tend to confuse the term redneck and white trash too often.

Aren't redneck/white trash almost totally interchangable?

not to much. rednecks are more... how should i put it, decent. they live a normal life, with good income, but love the token stereotypical activities, ie hunting, fishing, drinking, race tracks, etc. my family falls under that.

white trash, aka, trailer trash, not to say anything about op's brother, are the cheap kind you picture at walmart late at night in wife beaters and wives with no bras on. the kind that scrape by life on the bare minimum, and do not strive for any better.

huge difference.

 

[JM Aggie08]

Originally posted by: purbeast0
it's that raised pickup truck on 35" tires that make you a redneck.

i resent that...except 37"

 

[nweaver]

Originally posted by: JM Aggie08

Originally posted by: nweaver

Originally posted by: JM Aggie08
i lightly consider myself one. i wear boots and ratty jeans to my job, drive a massive '79 blazer. oh and hunting? 6 times a month. it's nothing to be bragging about, just the way i was raised. dont get me wrong, my family and I are well off in our home, circle of friends.

People tend to confuse the term redneck and white trash too often.

Aren't redneck/white trash almost totally interchangable?

not to much. rednecks are more... how should i put it, decent. they live a normal life, with good income, but love the token stereotypical activities, ie hunting, fishing, drinking, race tracks, etc. my family falls under that.

white trash, aka, trailer trash, not to say anything about op's brother, are the cheap kind you picture at walmart late at night in wife beaters and wives with no bras on. the kind that scrape by life on the bare minimum, and do not strive for any better.

huge difference.

Did you see my bro and his wife (or my sister and her husband) at Walmart last night? (lol, that is totally the truth...luckily not all of my family is white trash, just most of us)

 

[thegimp03]

Working out in the sun all day...

 

[ahurtt]

Originally posted by: weadjust
Have you ever lost a tooth opening a beer bottle?

That would preclude you from being a redneck because it assumes you had teeth to begin with.

Edit: Actually better would have been, "Did you loose your tooth opening a beer bottle?"

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: jhayx7

Originally posted by: leftyman
location location location

There are rednecks everywhere. Even in New York!! *gasp* :Q

Indeed. Rednecks abound, but I have found these categories to be pretty useful in labeling them

1) size of county in which they dwell (the more rural, the better)
2) level of education attained
3) maximum distance ever traveled from county of birth
4) education notwithstanding, ability to think outside of the main reality that they know
(knoweldge of world affairs, as an example--or at least a separate news source in addition to Clem at Piggly Wiggly)
5) political affiliation (it's pretty safe to say that the majority of rednecks are conservative...even though it's the party that wants to screw them the most )
"You can take my money as long as you stay out of my business!"
6) degree of Racism/Bigotry
7) Type of dwelling (the trailer is typical, but there are plenty of wealthy rednecks)
8) number of guns owned

your brother sounds like a redneck (although no details concerning some of these categories provided...), and I'd say you just need to get in touch with your roots. I kid, I kid

you know what...this probably is more accurate for white trash; I know plenty of decent rednecks...which is why I rank the stereotypes at the bottom.

 

[BoomerD]

:music:"Well my long hair just cain't cover up my redneck"...:music:

 

[BoomerD]

Oh BTW, here are some "official definitions of Red Neck"

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe...k&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title
"Definitions of redneck on the Web:

a poor white person in the southern United States
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

In modern usage, redneck predominantly refers to a particular stereotype of whites from the Southern United States. The word can be used either as a pejorative or as a matter of pride, depending on context. See also Hillbilly
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck

http://www.answers.com/topic/redneck

 

[torpid]

How can there be so many posts in this thread when the answer to the question proposed is in the 2nd post? What's all this yammering on about area codes and locations?

 

[GasX]

have you ever said, "business in the front and party in the back" to your barber?

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: JM Aggie08
i lightly consider myself one. i wear boots and ratty jeans to my job, drive a massive '79 blazer. oh and hunting? 6 times a month. it's nothing to be bragging about, just the way i was raised. dont get me wrong, my family and I are well off in our home, circle of friends.

People tend to confuse the term redneck and white trash too often.

QFT

 

[deerslayer]

Pics of said truck?

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: JM Aggie08
i lightly consider myself one. i wear boots and ratty jeans to my job, drive a massive '79 blazer. oh and hunting? 6 times a month. it's nothing to be bragging about, just the way i was raised. dont get me wrong, my family and I are well off in our home, circle of friends.

People tend to confuse the term redneck and white trash too often.

also they confuse redneck with racist.