I’ve discovered recently that ‘Redneck doesn’t necessarily mean ‘Racist’

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I’ve discovered recently that ‘Redneck doesn’t necessarily mean ‘Racist’

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They’re just....Redneck!

That’s all.

A noticeable trait of rednecks is that when you aren’t part of their exclusive group/club they let you know that you aren’t one of them.

So that’s not so much racist but exclusionary.

Even Hillary Clinton, a totally White WASPish woman who lived in the South for several years, couldn’t crack ‘the Redneck Club’. She was never considered ‘one of them’.


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How about you "discover" what it's like to dance blindfolded in a live minefield, you prattling anus?


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:D

Jojo is discovering what some words he used before mean. If anything’s threadworthy today - this is it.


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Blurt wrote: 17 Aug 2019, 08:57 How about you "discover" what it's like to dance blindfolded in a live minefield, you prattling anus?
Have you been hanging around with Dinky D ? =))


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Pinch poke, you owe me a coke.


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No shit Joe. I'm betting you view ALL white southerners as rednecks. It is my experience that many southern whites have a greater understanding of (and appreciation for) the black community than do northern whites.

I'm sure Hillary attempted to make the correct noises when living in Arkansas, but treated ALL of billy-Bob's constituents with contempt. Yale or fuck-all.


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Lochdubh wrote: 17 Aug 2019, 12:13 No shit Joe. I'm betting you view ALL white southerners as rednecks. It is my experience that many southern whites have a greater understanding of (and appreciation for) the black community than do northern whites.

I'm sure Hillary attempted to make the correct noises when living in Arkansas, but treated ALL of billy-Bob's constituents with contempt. Yale or fuck-all.
....but she tried ‘dubh.



Btw since yer here, can you talk Irina & mimi into attending their first meeting of the local BC chapter of ... the Obedient Wives Club.?



I’ve signed them up.

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J0E wrote: 17 Aug 2019, 12:24
Lochdubh wrote: 17 Aug 2019, 12:13 No shit Joe. I'm betting you view ALL white southerners as rednecks. It is my experience that many southern whites have a greater understanding of (and appreciation for) the black community than do northern whites.

I'm sure Hillary attempted to make the correct noises when living in Arkansas, but treated ALL of billy-Bob's constituents with contempt. Yale or fuck-all.
....but she tried ‘dubh.



Btw since yer here, can you talk Irina & mimi into attending their first meeting of the local BC chapter of ... the Obedient Wives Club.?

I’ve signed them up.

Now all they need ta do is attend
I'll tell them......but ONLY once.


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mimi wrote: 17 Aug 2019, 11:41 Have you been hanging around with Dinky D ? =))
I have.

But she'll deny it. :tongue:


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i really think joe is gone. i haven't seen him post since friday.


what is that? and how do i make the rest of my life about it.
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He's posted both yesterday and today. But I agree....he's 'gone' alright. :(


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I thought a redneck meant over-weight american truckdrivers..

Their necks are red because of high blood pressure.


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I think the bottom line is...the definition of redneck is 'regional'...or 'geographical'. (not sure of the right word I'm looking for :blush: )
But what it means in one area, is different than in another....and each would be correct...for that area even though it would be contradictory to another area's definition.


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The first redneck I met...

I thought he was a non-english speaker like me.


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One gets a red neck from plowing the fields and working the farm all day long... usually starts around the age of 4.


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Rednecks and bluebloods of the Blackfeet tribe have green thumbs.


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mimi wrote: 18 Aug 2019, 19:22 I think the bottom line is...the definition of redneck is 'regional'...or 'geographical'. (not sure of the right word I'm looking for :blush: )
But what it means in one area, is different than in another....and each would be correct...for that area even though it would be contradictory to another area's definition.
Yup. To Alabamians it's a model citizen

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cc wrote: 19 Aug 2019, 09:04Yup. To Alabamians it's a model citizen
i suppose it depends on the area.... but i'm deep south and although rednecks are abundant here, they are not welcome here.... to most ppl, they are the equivalent of trailer trash.... and as for rednecks being racist, its like fire and smoke.... separate definitions but where you see one you're bound to find the other.... and if you're curious, i'm a hillbilly.... and yes. that is actually much better than a redneck.... :D


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^I'd have guessed peckerwood. :unsure:


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Lochdubh wrote: 19 Aug 2019, 09:35 ^I'd have guessed peckerwood. :unsure:
lmmfao.... only really old ppl even use that term here.... :D


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Time for some schooling. The term Redneck came from around 100 years ago in West Virginia. Workers were fed up with working conditions, united wearing a red bandanna, and took up arms. Original Rednecks were not racist at all, and quite the opposite, as they swore an oath not to be racist against each other.

Today, Redneck means many things. To one person it might mean good ol' boy, to another it might mean "workin' in the sun all day" like Markus said. Then you have others, that have bastardized the name, and look at themselves as rowdy racists to a degree. Just like they bastardized the Confederate Flag.

At one time, Redneck and the Confederate flag really meant something. THEY dont like people unifying like that, so of course THEY try and say how bad they are, and want to remove "reminders" (statues), of what was once fought over. THEY even go so far as to change the story, and say the war was all over slavery, which is horse shit, since a lot of blacks fought in that war too. The truth needs to be known, Lincoln ordered total war, and invaded the South, raping women, killing children, and burning and plundering as they went, all because the North didnt want to lose out on all that money the South made them through high ass taxes and such.


Here ya go, heres a lil copy/paste I found off google for y'all...

To call someone a “redneck” now divides us, when the term was created to unite us. And this distortion only benefits rednecks’ original enemies – corrupt politicians and big companies who don’t care about a multiracial alliance of hardworking Americans.

In West Virginia, the term “redneck” dates back to the early 1900s, a time when mineworkers faced the constant threat of death – from explosions, cave-ins and poor working conditions. A West Virginian enlisted in the armed forces during the first world war was less likely to die than one working in a coalmine.
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In 1921, black, white and immigrant mineworkers took up arms to battle the coal companies that controlled and exploited every aspect of their lives. United, they wore red bandannas to identify each other in battle. They called themselves the “Redneck Army”.

The West Virginia mine wars were the bloodiest labor conflict in American history. Culminating in the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921, more than 10,000 miners marched from the Kanawha valley toward Mingo to join other striking miners in protest. In their way stood the Logan county sheriff, Don Chafin, who was in the pocket of big coal – a $32,000 payoff each year, roughly $400,000 in today’s dollars.

Chafin commanded a private army of more than 2,000 mercenaries and multiple airplanes equipped to drop bombs on workers. Siding with Chafin and the coal bosses, President Warren G Harding sent federal troops too, armed with gas and more planes (the fourth time that troops had been called in to squash organized miners in the mountain state).

The miners proved what we know today: there is nothing more frightening to a coal boss or corrupt politician than a courageous, united, multi-ethnic coalition of working men and women.

In the coal camps, black people found segregated housing and schools, and lower pay. Operators preferred to break strikes by importing black workers, to sow discord among the races. But by the 1910s, the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) was fighting for pay equality, and requiring an oath from every member not to discriminate against any fellow member by “creed, or color, or nationality”.

Its first paid organizer in West Virginia was a black man. Miners swore an oath to each other, across “class or creed”. An early planning committee consisted of three officers: one white person born in West Virginia, one Italian immigrant and one black person.

One miner remarked: “I call it a darn solid mass of different colors and tribes, blended together, woven together, bound, interlocked, tongued and grooved together in one body.”


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So where does Larry the Cable Guy stand in all of this?
Redneck or hillbilly?

Which one of you watches Larry and goes ...yup.


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larry would be a redneck. rednecks are the southern equivalent of british chavs.... hillbillies are the equivalent of lorry drivers and construction workers.... the under-appreciated, unsung heroes.... :D


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For people who've spent their entire lives in New England or the PNW sipping almond milk lattes while discussing English Literature of the Edwardian period, it's hard to tell the difference between Larry the Cable Guy, Joe the Plumber, Oscar the Lumberjack, Skinz the Southern Fry Cook, Scooter the Butcher, and Blazor the Printing Press Operator.

They're so out of touch with the Working Man that y'all sound like rednecks and hillbillies to them.

Thank God for Google.


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A rose by any other name. Nothing wrong with working class men of all colours and shapes. Being a member of the working class has absolutely nothing to do with ones proclivity for racism.


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Somewhat related.

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How about a high tech redneck :D



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Sorry, Blaze, I can't listen to George Jones.

He has Christian hair.

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