Rednecks in LA? (Rodeo, Williams: theater, school, taxes)

[jc76]

Originally Posted by UB50

I grew up around rednecks but I can't think of anywhere around here to find them. I will tell you that all the big country acts play to big crowds in LA and you know those crowds have to contain more than a few rednecks. There's also NASCAR out in Pomona? Or Ontario? Somewhere out there.

I've heard there are rednecks in Bakersfield.

Regarding the dress: What happened to the belt with the rodeo buckle? The cowboy boots and cowboy hats? The chew can in the pocket? The nifty cowboy shirts with the snaps?

I think your mixing Redneck with Country Western. They are two different genres.
Rednecks usually pick fights and love cheap american beer.

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Originally Posted by UB50

I grew up around rednecks but I can't think of anywhere around here to find them. I will tell you that all the big country acts play to big crowds in LA and you know those crowds have to contain more than a few rednecks. There's also NASCAR out in Pomona? Or Ontario? Somewhere out there.

I've heard there are rednecks in Bakersfield.

Regarding the dress: What happened to the belt with the rodeo buckle? The cowboy boots and cowboy hats? The chew can in the pocket? The nifty cowboy shirts with the snaps?

Rodeo buckle - check.

Boots - check (I must disclose, I'm even wearing them today)

Hat - check (I prefer Resistol).

Chew can - check (at least back in the day, although these days I'm a cigar man)

Cowboy shirts - not really, I was more prone to have a "Bueno Bultaco" or similar T-shirt, or, in winter, plain old flannel with tartan pattern. Or the down vest with long sleeve T-shirt or thermals. You get the picture ... LOL!

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Originally Posted by adysmom

Who would beat them up? Maybe black and mexican gang typs.

Or bands of anarchists of the type who like to smash in Starbuck's windows.

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Originally Posted by nmnita

I was about to say something similar: For anyone who has lived in Texas, AR, OK etc there are Rednecks and there are Rednecks. Ca ones are very different. I will add, for those who have never lived around them, they do have strange ideas, can be very narrow minded but you will never find people that are more caring or more helpful...

Nita

Ours are either descendants of old Confederates who fled ala Josey Wales, or, descendants of more recently arrived Okies, Arkies, darkies, etc, as mentioned earlier in the thread.

Here's a test of mine, from my days of living in the East Bay. If you say "Awlbunny" then you are probably a Greenhorn or a kid of Greenhorns from the East Coast. On the other hand, if you say "Ayalbinny" then you might just be a Redneck*. No doubt there are similar verbal tests relevant to LA places ... LOL!

* (Hat tip to Live 105 / KFOG DJ Big Rick Stewart for this test)

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Speaking of rebel flags ... here's a memory. There used to be (at least as late as the late 1980s) a "Rebel" truck stop in Ventura County, near the 101. Man, that was one massive rebel flag they had flying!

[JakeDog]

Originally Posted by nmnita

Very few if any in Los Angeles, true Rednecks that is. You are more inclined to find them is smaller towns. In fact you will not find many in Ca period..Liberalism and Rednecks don't mix too well.

Nita

Are you familar with California? Just curious, because you don't appear to be very familair with it. Bakersfield is more Oklahoma than most of Oklahoma. Merle Haggard and Buck Owens ring a bell? California is enormous and has a huge amount of diversity. There are parts of California that are extremely conservative and redneck.

[JakeDog]

An August 2005 article by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer listed Bakersfield as the 8th-most conservative city in the US out of the 237 ranked cities, listing it as the most conservative city in California. But California is just liberal cheese eating pot smoking movie producers and homosexuals, so that must be wrong...right? Unlike many smaller less populated states, California is more like several states in one.

[FresnoFacts]

I can't resist, time to have fun with some stereotypes.


You might be a "California redneck" if....

• Your surfboard has a NASCAR car number decal.
• You think a surfboard on concrete blocks makes a good coffee table.
• Your Prius has a gun rack.
• Your BMW has a trailer hitch.
• You can't use the bathtub until after the wine ferments.
• Your palm tree still has Christmas lights on it in February.
• You barbeque your sushi.
• You only eat organic beef jerky.
• You drive a Honda pickup with mudflaps.

[alaplex]

Yeah, they exist but you really need to go to the Orange County area. You'll see a lot of that down there in places like Huntington Beach, Orange, Irvine, etc. I live in West LA but work in Hunt Beach. Believe me it's there. I must admit there area is much cleaner though.

[UB50]

Originally Posted by jc76

I think your mixing Redneck with Country Western. They are two different genres.
Rednecks usually pick fights and love cheap american beer.

Nope. They did that too so they were Rednecks and Country Western.

They thrive on songs like Hank Williams Jr. "There's a Tear in my Beer" which is an excellent fighting/drinking song.

One more detail I forgot about: The red/white cigarette pack, either Marlboro or Winston, with the cheap t-shirt -- and they roll the pack up into the sleeve of the t-shirt.

Oh! And the details of their latest hunting expedition, usually for something stupid like armadillos, possum or coon.

And what about the ones who go mud bogging? They get those big pickups on some super high tires and then attach the tow apparatus to their front bumper? Now that's a snappy ride!