define redneck??? (Ozark, Cave: movies, club, garden)

[Florida Redneck]

msjbrent you discribed a redneck as :
Poverty stricken, obese, uneducated, never really been anywhere, live in a small rural Southern town, Wal Mart is your Friday night, your Fried Chicken and maybe if your really something, your low paying hourly job and you can't afford clothes that aren't from a second hand store.

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Your discription fits this man to a tee :
There was a man who only attended school to 7th grade.He then droped out to support his mama.
[/SIZE]He worked many jobs, including steamboat driver, insurance salesman, railroad fireman, farmer, and enlisted in the Army as a private
At the age of 40,this man cooked chicken dishes and other meals for people who stopped at his service station in Corbin, Kentucky
Over the next nine years, he perfected his method of cooking chicken that used the same eleven herbs and spices that are used today at KFC his name was Harland David Sanders .
He died at age 90 of leukemia. He was buried in his characteristic white suit and black bow tie in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky, after lying in state in the rotunda of the Kentucky State Capitol.
I guess you could say he was a redneck as well

[leggy]

I have been called a redneck many times in my life!

I am well traveled and well educated!

I do not drink beer! But, I do love to play in the mud on a Good Friday ride in the 4 wheel drive and 4 wheelers.

I now raise cattle and live on a farm, I have a donkey, dogs and cats! I even have a old wooden screen door that slams shut behind you ( I love that) :-)

This is a way of life I choose to live. I left the big city and came to the country and if good clean living makes me a redneck. Then I am a redneck!

I have a wonderful job with a large corporate outpost. I have all my teeth and I own a truck!

But when I get up on a saturday morning I watch the sun rise and enjoy the sounds of the animals waking and moving around. I do not listen to police cars and sirens and cars on the interstate anymore..

So I am proud to be a redneck!

[Nomadicus]

Originally Posted by leggy

I have been called a redneck many times in my life!

I am well traveled and well educated!

I do not drink beer! But, I do love to play in the mud on a Good Friday ride in the 4 wheel drive and 4 wheelers.

I now raise cattle and live on a farm, I have a donkey, dogs and cats! I even have a old wooden screen door that slams shut behind you ( I love that) :-)

This is a way of life I choose to live. I left the big city and came to the country and if good clean living makes me a redneck. Then I am a redneck!

I have a wonderful job with a large corporate outpost. I have all my teeth and I own a truck!

But when I get up on a saturday morning I watch the sun rise and enjoy the sounds of the animals waking and moving around. I do not listen to police cars and sirens and cars on the interstate anymore..

So I am proud to be a redneck!

I think you just described the perfect model "Redneck". America needs more of 'em.

[aslinn dhan]

I'm from WV and the term redneck always meant Union Man to me. When the miners were fighting to have a union, they wore a red handkerchief around their necks to symbolize their unity. The notion that redneck now stands for ignorance and bigotry is repulsive and form of culture bias

[aslinn dhan]

I always heard it that way too, when did it become a negative term?

[TLily]

Being a redneck has nothing to do with where one lives or was born, or his/her educational level, or what one prefers to do in his/her spare time. It is defined ultimately by attitude and narrow-mindedness. Having lived in the hot-bed of "redneck-ness" for the past 10 years, as well as having met my share of rednecks over the past 63 years, I have determined that the following characteristics are held in common by all rednecks everywhere, whether they live right here in the deep South, on Long Island, or in the middle of San Francisco: 1. a complete disinterest in enlarging one's sphere of interests or knowledge due to a lack of curiosity about the world in general because of a smug satisfaction with one's own small area of existence, and the complete belief that one is always right about this. 2. a total lack of appreciation for diversity among people who fall outside of one's white, anglosaxon protestant world, and a total self-assurance that one is always right about this. 3. a disdain for using what amount of education one might have, particularly as a means of acccurate and understandable communication with others, whether that education was acquired by the sweat of one's own brow, or the sweat of your Daddy's brow as he worked his butt off to pay for yours, along with the complete beleif that this is always correct. This goes hand in hand with a fear of offending your less educated friends and neighbors because they might use the redneck's favorite device on you, that unbelievable reverse snobbery that is common to all rednecks everywhere. 4. over-the-top pride in ridiculing any form of culture that runs counter to those things that you consider part of your redneck culture, whether you have ever experienced those things or not, and the complete belief that your feeling about this is always right. If this sounds familiar, then you MIGHT be a redneck. And if the shoe fits...

[transplantedtexan]

Were I come from Redneck was a country person because of the short hair that caused there neck to get sunburnt. It was what the long haired city folks called us.
Alot of yall that would like to live the slow country life but don't have the guts. You like to think up all kind of excuses to try and put us down. You can keep your stress and heart attacks and I will keep my 4WD and coondog and we all can have what we want.

[ShadowCaver]

Originally Posted by aslinn dhan

I always heard it that way too, when did it become a negative term?

Well, I think you'll see a good example of what modern usage of the term means, right after your post above...

[CurlyAngel]

Well am going to be honest, I live in a redneck ville, and I love it, and yes we do take pride, am a southern girl all the way, I say aint, caint, wont, yall, etc... We're not racist, nor have low income, or fat, the truth is that you can be a redneck, if you listen to country music, if you have the southern morals, if you drive a truck, if you like Jonh Deere, fishing, drinking, eat at KFC, go to Wal-mart, if your fat or skinny, go to football games on Friday night, if you like sweet tea, and many other things, you pretty much can considered yourself a redneck. The thing is that theirs a lot of things. So until now your pretty much stereotyping people. Heck whatever you consindered yourself, you pretty much come from there, or you represent yourself as one!!!

[drtevans]

what you are describing is more accurately called white trash in the white race and ******s in the black. No racial slur intended just accurate definitions. A redneck is not simply rough around the edges a redneck is usally lower middle class but does not fit in so the extreme country actions give these people a bond. the best way to describe a redneck is the opposite of A country gentleman. A country gentleman loves the rural life and the manners and hospitality that are associated with this class. they celebrate the best in the rural culture. rednecks celebrate the worst of this culture and use it as a ralling cry in an attempt to overcome poor family values and morals and bond with other similar types of people in which they can feel comfortable. please remember country is good redneck is bad.