The ****ing skinkeads down the street are another story. They actually moved from across the street to like a block over. One of them died so they sold the house and moved in with some relative.
Whenever you see a redneck and you tell your good friend: "Hey, check out that Redneck"... that's a redneck for you... and also for me. But, really, I mean "deliverance" and "hillbilly" and "trailer trash" or just plain "rural white folks." I mean, come on, now, you see me on the street andyou think Mexico, even if you don't know my nationality. *I am Mexican, BTW. Nope. WRONG!
I've never said to anyone "check out that redneck." I grew up in the far outskirts of Houston where we had kids in my school that called themselves rednecks. They were involved with FFA , rode horses, wore cowboy hats, and drove pickups. Being a redneck was not considered a bad thing back in the 70's. I think today many plain "rural white folks" would still call themselves rednecks. I don't really view it as a negative term. If you are white and you work outdoors, you will get a red neck. It's pretty common to see lots of red neck people in rural Texas.
No one has said anything about it being a bad thing at all. Not sure why you're bringing that or the "negative term" into this. If they called themselves that, then those are the ones I'd like for you to answer about, and their location, in the poll.
Well, you said you were referring to rednecks as "deliverance" and "hillbilly" and "trailer trash". That seems kinda negative to me. I think many people who live in a rural setting may consider themselves rednecks. Especially people involved in farm and ranch work.
It's just names they call themselves and other people call them. You can think whatever you think... just answer the dang poll, man, and be done with it... you're going on about all this crap when you don't need to. LOLs.
Aren't hillbillies associated with people from the Appalachians? I voted only in the South because the South is generally consistently hotter and sunnier enough for people to get red necks. People who work outdoors in the North generally wear longer clothing with longer collars because it's colder, so they don't get red necks. The North is associated with cloudier and colder weather, so the North isn't associated with rednecks. Semantically, I associate the word rednecks with people from the South only.
The uncle of a friend once said, "No matter where you go, there's gonna be some rednecks." No truer words were ever spoken. I lived in Frederick, MD (also known as Fredneck) for 8 years and there's rednecks all over that place and most of Western Maryland. Latrobe, PA is populated almost entirely by rednecks. Western Massachusetts, rural Maine and Vermont and upstate NY...ditto rednecks.
I'm from Houston, but I lived in Utah for a few years. Our office ended up getting into a joint project (software company) with another office in Houston. This worked out nicely for me because I was able to get the company to move me back home at their expense. But one thing that always amazed me was the way that each office perceived the other. While I found both offices to be competent and professional, each thought the other office was full of hillbillies and rednecks. Not sure if this relates directly but I always thought it was insightful in terms of expectations and how they color our experiences.
Tweakers are generally more WT, but those groups can overlap. And yes, to reiterate, there are rednecks everywhere: Cali's got em, the PacNW (holy **** eastern WA/OR & Idaho), the Rockies, NY, NE, Ohio (again, holy ****), Penn, the entire Midwest, etc.... It would be easier to name the states without them: dunno about RI, Conn, NJ, Delaware, Minn (I'm assuming yes on that one, "frostnecks" maybe?).
I don't know about red necks but I will say the white trash population is out of control in the North. Pennsylvania, New York, Maine, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana are swarming with white trash... the South simply cannot compete.
