Rednecks

[rootscoot]

I'm a redneck and proud of it!

[Zabrina Sarafina]

Hmm...

What about the school in Arizona that had "Redneck Day" to celebrate school spirit? It was in the news because some kid came in wrapped up in the Confederate flag and people complained got the school in trouble

My first reaction when I first heard that was ...I didn't know there were rednecks in Arizona !

[pyramider]

There are rednecks everywhere. Chicago has its fair share of rednecks.

[tuckahoe]

Yep. We are everywhere! A lot of us don't fit the stereotypes, though.
This here redneck is proud to say he ain't never seen no reality show. A real redneck ain't got no time for TV. TV ain't entertainment, it is mindlessness!
I WOULD like to see Zabrina wrapped in a confederate flag (and it don't matter none to me WHICH confederate flag). This here redneck would love to unwrap her. And, wouldn't she look gooooood in a stars and bars bikini! Whoohoo!

[Super Sonic]

I saw a documentary on the Discovery channel on the origin of the term "Redneck". I always thought the term was a derogatory reference to the sunburned neck of rural farmers. But, it is also contended that the term came from the West Virginia Coal Miners March of 1883, when miners wore red bandannas around their necks in support of the opportunity to unionize.

[bojulay]

The real origin of the term.

My grandfather told me that farmers wives used to make work shirts
for them and the hardest part of the shirt to make was the collar, so they
would leave them off of the shirt, this is where it breaks off into two parts.

Some of the farmers would tie red bandannas (the most popular color)
around their necks for protection, and if they didn't their necks would get
sunburned, so there you have it ether way REDNECK.

[tuckahoe]

Some say it originated from those who worked outside and their necks became tanned.
Others say it originated in Scotland many years ago, when a group wore red handkerchiefs around their necks, so they could identify each other in battle.
And I have heard the term "hillbilly" originated in Michigan.

[Lust4xxxLife]

I don't know where the term originated.

To me, a redneck is the term I use for a white, bigoted, uneducated, uncultured person, not a hard working farmer. You can spot rednecks by their bad grammar and/or their childish name-calling for Obama and others they fear.

[Roguejet]

Nevermind

[daddyo67]

Originally Posted by Lust4xxxLife

I don't know where the term originated.

To me, a redneck is the term I use for a white, bigoted, uneducated, uncultured person, not a hard working farmer. You can spot rednecks by their bad grammar and/or their childish name-calling for Obama and others they fear.

Hmm! out to lunch!

[Jewish Lawyer]

Originally Posted by Lust4xxxLife

I don't know where the term originated.

To me, a redneck is the term I use for a white, bigoted, uneducated, uncultured person, not a hard working farmer. You can spot rednecks by their bad grammar and/or their childish name-calling for Obama and others they fear.

Of course, you are better than them, right? You are not bigoted about anything, you are educated and cultured, you use good grammar, and never childishly call anyone names - is that correct?

[JohnnyCap]

As far as reality TV goes, I be far more proud to be the dumbest hillbilly redneck in Appalachian fucktard land than have anything to do with the Bachelor series of shows.

The rest is stereotypes which are at the same time right and wrong. Therefore there are those who embrace or repel the image. I tend to think that if a bozo like Foxworthy can make huge bank exploiting an idea, the idea is probably shallow.

I love the Confederate flag despite being a yankee. I wish saying so didn't make me a racist in many eyes, because the truth is our nation gained many scars fighting that flag and its symbolism shouldnt be abolished along with the necessary abolition.

[rekcaSxT]

Redneck is not a term of endearment in my opinion.

As for Texas. Well Texas is so diverse it is impossible to label everyone in Texas as a certain category.

Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio are such international cities with very ethnically diverse populations and great universities. And then you have the rural areas, where you can find all manner of Yokels and Rednecks.

I was told this years ago and I still go by it. If you draw a line from Dallas to Houston, everything east of that line is more southern. (Dialect, culture, food, architecture, etc...) Everything west of that line is going to be more like the Southwest.

Even further drilled in you will find pockets of dialectical differences throughout the state, as well as subcultures.

So many people who live in Texas don't even realize just how wonderful it is. We have a certain identity that we have either embraced or has been thrust upon us especially with high profile figures being from Texas. i.e. George W Bush. Speaking of politics (only generally and brief) for example Texas was a fiercely Democrat state for most of it's history and that has only changed in the last generation or so.

[Tara Evans]

You want too see some redneck people go visit Gun Barrell City. Have a lakehouse out there and Love going there pure country folks. Dairy Queens on every corner.

[angusranch]

Come to the WalMart in Greenville one day Tara. Quite a show! Lol