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Thu 13 Mar, 2008 09:37 pm
I know a great majority of you think I'm a redneck.... but I'm not.
I'd like to wake up tomorrow and find they all died while I was sleeping..
Rednecks are some of the only people I am comfortable with.
The meaning of the word has changed since its inception. There are rednecks who are pretty good folks.
dadpad wrote:Amigo wrote:Rednecks are some of the only people I am comfortable with.
All the more reason.
You got me on that one buddy.....you got me.
Re: All Rednecks Must Die
Bi-Polar Bear wrote:I know a great majority of you think I'm a redneck.... but I'm not.
I'd like to wake up tomorrow and find they all died while I was sleeping..
You know when you are a redneck when you think a turtle neck is something you add to soup.
The Redneck must never die!!
Re: All Rednecks Must Die
Ragman wrote:Bi-Polar Bear wrote:I know a great majority of you think I'm a redneck.... but I'm not.
I'd like to wake up tomorrow and find they all died while I was sleeping..
You know when you are a redneck when you think a turtle neck is something you add to soup.
Redneck dictionary......facinate...
I got to go on a diet, I got 9 buttons on this shirt and I can only facinate.
Doesn't "redneck" originate from the fact that the sun beats down on the back of the neck of a Caucasian living in the South or Southwest?
What other meaning can the term possibly have?
Foofie wrote:Doesn't "redneck" originate from the fact that the sun beats down on the back of the neck of a Caucasian living in the South or Southwest?
What other meaning can the term possibly have?
You must live in China or Nova Scotia or something.
edgarblythe wrote:Foofie wrote:Doesn't "redneck" originate from the fact that the sun beats down on the back of the neck of a Caucasian living in the South or Southwest?
What other meaning can the term possibly have?
You must live in China or Nova Scotia or something.
Rather than commenting on where I, or where I may not, live, would you be amenable to educating me?
any dictionary would serve to "educate" you, but since that hasn't occured to you...
redneck
1sometimes disparaging : a white member of the Southern rural laboring class
2often disparaging : a person whose behavior and opinions are similar to those attributed to rednecks
a poor white person in the southern United States
Redneck, in modern usage, predominantly refers to a particular stereotype of people who may be found in many regions of the United States or Canada. ...
-noun 1. an uneducated white farm laborer, esp. from the South.
2. a bigot or reactionary, esp. from the rural working class.
-adjective 3. Also, red-necked. narrow, prejudiced, or reactionary: a redneck attitude.
Also, red-neck.
snood wrote:any dictionary would serve to "educate" you, but since that hasn't occured to you...
redneck
1sometimes disparaging : a white member of the Southern rural laboring class
2often disparaging : a person whose behavior and opinions are similar to those attributed to rednecks
a poor white person in the southern United States
Redneck, in modern usage, predominantly refers to a particular stereotype of people who may be found in many regions of the United States or Canada. ...
-noun 1. an uneducated white farm laborer, esp. from the South.
2. a bigot or reactionary, esp. from the rural working class.
-adjective 3. Also, red-necked. narrow, prejudiced, or reactionary: a redneck attitude.
Also, red-neck.
Oh, it's like referring to a European as a "peasant."
I didn't find snood's dictionary definition particularly helpful - no offense to him - I am working with guys right now who brag about being a redneck. What they have in common:
1. Won't eat anything that isn't beef, chicken, fish, ribs or potatoes.
2. Racist!!!!! OMG, I have never, never, NEVER heard such language!
3. Sexist!!!! OMG, ditto above.
4. Never been out of their province (or immediate vicinity, usually) and have no desire to. "What's wrong with here?"
5. Very little use of auxiliary verbs, as in: "I seen that. I done that. I been there."
6. Listen to country music which, in itself is just fine, but this is another common denominator.
7. Their idea of a great night out is a 30 oz. steak at ABC Family Restaurant followed by a beer drinking contest at the local pub. (The steak is FREE if you can eat it all).
8. They go to "peeler" bars on a regular basis.
9. They shoot and trap animals "because they're there".
10. They all drive some kind of truck.
11. When they get together, they all tell stories, and they involve drinking, hunting, fishing, truck details, or peeler stories. sigh.
etc.
Possible etymologies (interesting stuff here)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck_%28stereotype%29
Quote:Possible Scots-Irish etymologies
The National Covenant and The Solemn League and Covenant (a.k.a. Covenanters) signed documents stating that Scotland desired a Presbyterian Church government, and rejected the Church of England as their official church (no Anglican congregation was ever accepted as the official church in Scotland). What the Covenanters rejected was episcopacy ?- rule by bishops ?- the preferred form of church government in England. Many of the Covenanters signed these documents using their own blood, and many in the movement began wearing red pieces of cloth around their neck to signify their position to the public. They were referred to as rednecks.[1] Large numbers of these Scottish Presbyterians migrated from their lowland Scottish home to Ulster (the northern province of Ireland) and soon settled in considerable numbers in North America throughout the 18th century. Some emigrated directly from Scotland to the American colonies in the late 18th and early 19th-centuries as a result of the Lowland Clearances. This etymological theory holds that since many Scots-Irish Americans and Scottish Americans who settled in Appalachia and the South were Presbyterian, the term was bestowed upon them and their descendants.
Possible American etymologies
The most probable beginning of redneck comes from The West Virginia Coal Miners March or the Battle of Blair Mountain when coal miners wore red bandannas around their necks to identify themselves as seeking the opportunity to unionize. This eventually led to lower classes being called rednecks.
Another popular but unlikely etymology says that the term derives from such individuals having a red neck caused by working outdoors in the sunlight over the course of their lifetime. The effect of decades of direct sunlight on the exposed skin of the back of the neck not only reddens fair skin, but renders it leathery and tough, and typically very wrinkled and spotted by late middle age (a condition called cutis rhomboidalis nuchae). Similarly, some historians claim that the term redneck originated in 17th century Virginia, because fair-skinned unfree labourers were sunburnt while tending plantation crops.
Another popular etymology is that the term was originally used by African Americans as a pejorative for white people in general, in the same manner that peckerwood and ofay were coined by blacks.
Re: All Rednecks Must Die
WWWWOOOAAATTTT!!!
This *&^% fruitcake is mouthin' off like he did a days work in his life?? Standing around in tights like some kind of pussy.
*downs a bud and adjusts hunting knife on dark blue levis* Let's get 'er done, boys. Let's knock him down a few pegs.
To give due credit, not all rednecks are that bad.
Yeah, I watched one once swerve out of his way to try to hit a kitten sitting in a dirt road, and I've known more than my share of bigoted a$$holes, but, I've known others too.
I know someone who would have no problem calling himself a redneck, but the worst word I've ever heard come out of his mouth was "Daaaaang"
Most rednecks know how to speak properly, "I seen 'em do it in many a sichiation". They just choose not to. It's just more colorful, and they don't really care in day to day situations what you think about that.
Just yesterday, I was talking to a co-worker on the phone, who's in SE Tx. She's had more education than many people I know, and nothing gets by her.
However, when we were talking about a process, and the different way I do it in Austin, as opposed to where she is, she said "Well, we ain't citified out here." Meaning they are more laid back......She laughed when she said that, because of course she was putting on her redneck act heavy, to be funny.
Yeah.....but there are some stupid, hateful mofo's out there too, no doubt.
Re: All Rednecks Must Die
mushypancakes wrote:WWWWOOOAAATTTT!!!
This *&^% fruitcake is mouthin' off like he did a days work in his life?? Standing around in tights like some kind of pussy.
*downs a bud and adjusts hunting knife on dark blue levis* Let's get 'er done, boys. Let's knock him down a few pegs.
do your worst Jr. Samples.
PS I drive a truck and I'm thinking of putting a rack in the cab.
A wine rack.
lol. Good! I like wine. My supply is running low, send some up here!
Chai, I agree wholeheartedly. You know what ? Some of my long time friends are self professed rednecks, and "proud of it!".
I myself am not above some of the fun that goes along with it.
My friends have a sense of humour about it though too, and have no problem laughing at themselves either.
The ones that can die in their sleep are the same ones that would be miserable bastards anyways, eh.
Since most regional smaller towns have their two-cent millionaires (aka, class consciousness), and there was a respective regional negative term for those living on "the wrong side of the tracks," is it possible that "redneck" has replaced many of these regional terms as a euphemism, for terms in the past that were much more pejorative?
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