Longview, Texas and rednecks. (Tyler, Commerce: lawyers, buy, live)

[brian_2]

I know they're only words, and just labels to slap on people maybe unfairly, but it interests me what people think certain words mean in their locale. We read the various opinions on what the word 'redneck' means, just wondering - how would you all define the word 'bubba'?

[Just Lookin]

Someone in prison who is about to meet a big bad dude he isn't going to like.

[momof2dfw]

Bubba - I had a shih tzu that I used to call "Bubba". That was not her "real" name but just became a nickname for her. She was pure "city girl" for a dog but somehow the name stuck. I don't see the name "Bubba" as bad or in a negative light at all. But then again I am a GRITS kinda girl . It is not uncommon to hear someone call their son "bubba" even though it is not their given name. Or even "bub". These will be people that are educated and some even very well off but usually it is natives or people from the South that will do such. Just like I do not put the term "uneducated" w/ the word "redneck" as it does not belong with it. So the same is for "bubba".

[txgrl]

My oldest son's nickname is Bubba. That's what his sister called him when he was born and it stuck. He also goes by Bub and Bubby.

[carolinajack]

Ripley, if looking like that and dressing as you described makes one a redneck, then I guess I am one of those. growing up in Texas, in suburban Dallas in the eighties and born and raised in the South,thats how we dressed and trucks are what we drove---I still do even after I have graduated from a liberal Northeast US Ivy League University, gotten 2 Masters degrees, come from an upper middle class home and private school and BLACK---I too can be a redneck????? Well doggie I am glad about that then.

[carolinajack]

Bill Clinton is a Redneck and he became President, so is Jimmy Carter, Lyndon Johnson,for that matter--it doesnt mean you are uneducated, or trash, it means you are just a good ole boy, hardworking, hardplaying strong family values American kind of a guy.

i wouldnt give up my pick up, my copenhagen, my 30-06, my Merle Haggard CDs, my bird dogs, my farm, my love of this country, my baptist church just to please some one else.

Seems not many people have travelled up north much, outside of Boston, Philly, NY, Chicago, DC, there are plenty of farms and good ole boys, who love to hunt, fish, drive trucks, go to church and drink a beer now and again and not afraid of mommas apple pie

[carolinajack]

there are plenty of blacks and mexicans that fit that bill as redneck too, its what we do and wear in the country and drive.

and there are plenty of educated, urban yankees and californians who are racist bigots , so I dont think racism and redneck go together

[ripley]

Originally Posted by carolinajack

Ripley, if looking like that and dressing as you described makes one a redneck, then I guess I am one of those. growing up in Texas, in suburban Dallas in the eighties and born and raised in the South,thats how we dressed and trucks are what we drove---I still do even after I have graduated from a liberal Northeast US Ivy League University, gotten 2 Masters degrees, come from an upper middle class home and private school and BLACK---I too can be a redneck????? Well doggie I am glad about that then.

Remember, I was responding to someone else's post about their husband's opinion that there will be an abundance of rednecks in Longview.

This was not my opinion of what a redneck is.

[ColdCanadian]

Originally Posted by carolinajack

Bill Clinton is a Redneck and he became President, so is Jimmy Carter, Lyndon Johnson,for that matter--it doesnt mean you are uneducated, or trash, it means you are just a good ole boy, hardworking, hardplaying strong family values American kind of a guy.

I think I'd hestitate on saying Bill Clinton had strong family values.

[Cathy4017]

Originally Posted by ColdCanadian

I think I'd hestitate on saying Bill Clinton had strong family values.

Ditto LBJ......LOL!!!