Why do so many people in Montgomery County try to act "country" all of the sudden? (Baltimore: transplants, unemployment)

[LunaticVillage]

It seems like every white other person in Montgomery County thinks they're from West Virginia all of the sudden. Driving obnoxious lifted trucks with deer stickers on the back, wearing cowboy boots and hunting camo casually, "dipping" chewing tobacco, only listening to country music, telling anyone who will listen that they were raised in "the country", even going as far to forcing cringe-worthy "country" accents when DC area white people usually pride themselves with the lie that they "don't have an accent". It's all very odd.

Yes, Montgomery county is semi-rural. But it seems like the people adopting this image aren't farmworkers but people who grew up in the mcmansions across the street from the farm. The whole donning flannel, Carhartt and cowboy boots looks stupid when most adults who dress like this in Montgomery County go to work in very, very white collar office jobs. It's really cringeworthy to see adults adopting these personas out of the blue like they are still in high school. Especially when it's people you know personally who were anything but "country" five years ago.

It's like the same people who tried to convince you that Gaithersburg is the "ghetto" have given up on that lie and are now try to convince you that it's the "sticks". I've seen white people go as far to do stereotypical redneck things like park an old truck caked with mud in the front lawn of their very suburban whitebred white collar upper middle class neighborhood.

Is this all because suburban dwelling white people feel that they have no culture at the end of the day? Is it because white men feel emasculated by liberalism and upper middle class white collar white male privilege and want to reclaim their masculinity by superficially embracing redneck culture? Is it because Trump's "Make America Great Again" movement has riled up faux rural patriotism and voyeurism amongst upper middle class whites for working class white people who are going extinct because of low birth rates, drug addiction and unemployment? Do you really have to tailgate everybody in your spotless lifted truck with an empty bed? Do you really have to stare down people of color like they are out of place wearing your Larry the Cable Guy costume like this is some dive bar deep in Appalachia when you're at a Chipotle in Rockville? When are you going to cut off your ironic working class man mustache that makes you look like a character in a Jonah Hill movie?

[adelphi_sky]

Originally Posted by LunaticVillage

It seems like every white other person in Montgomery County thinks they're from West Virginia all of the sudden. Driving obnoxious lifted trucks with deer stickers on the back, wearing cowboy boots and hunting camo casually, "dipping" chewing tobacco, only listening to country music, telling anyone who will listen that they were raised in "the country", even going as far to forcing cringe-worthy "country" accents when DC area white people usually pride themselves with the lie that they "don't have an accent". It's all very odd.

Yes, Montgomery county is semi-rural. But it seems like the people adopting this image aren't farmworkers but people who grew up in the mcmansions across the street from the farm. The whole donning flannel, Carhartt and cowboy boots looks stupid when most adults who dress like this in Montgomery County go to work in very, very white collar office jobs. It's really cringeworthy to see adults adopting these personas out of the blue like they are still in high school. Especially when it's people you know personally who were anything but "country" five years ago.

It's like the same people who tried to convince you that Gaithersburg is the "ghetto" have given up on that lie and are now try to convince you that it's the "sticks". I've seen white people go as far to do stereotypical redneck things like park an old truck caked with mud in the front lawn of their very suburban whitebred white collar upper middle class neighborhood.

Is this all because suburban dwelling white people feel that they have no culture at the end of the day? Is it because white men feel emasculated by liberalism and upper middle class white collar white male privilege and want to reclaim their masculinity by superficially embracing redneck culture? Is it because Trump's "Make America Great Again" movement has riled up faux rural patriotism and voyeurism amongst upper middle class whites for working class white people who are going extinct because of low birth rates, drug addiction and unemployment? Do you really have to tailgate everybody in your spotless lifted truck with an empty bed? Do you really have to stare down people of color like they are out of place wearing your Larry the Cable Guy costume like this is some dive bar deep in Appalachia when you're at a Chipotle in Rockville? When are you going to cut off your ironic working class man mustache that makes you look like a character in a Jonah Hill movie?

Did you ever consider that these people may actually come from other parts of the region/state/country where that culture exists and not from some mid-life crises character shift by those born and raised here?

[finalmove]

Originally Posted by LunaticVillage

It seems like every white other person in Montgomery County thinks they're from West Virginia all of the sudden. Driving obnoxious lifted trucks with deer stickers on the back, wearing cowboy boots and hunting camo casually, "dipping" chewing tobacco, only listening to country music, telling anyone who will listen that they were raised in "the country", even going as far to forcing cringe-worthy "country" accents when DC area white people usually pride themselves with the lie that they "don't have an accent". It's all very odd.

Yes, Montgomery county is semi-rural. But it seems like the people adopting this image aren't farmworkers but people who grew up in the mcmansions across the street from the farm. The whole donning flannel, Carhartt and cowboy boots looks stupid when most adults who dress like this in Montgomery County go to work in very, very white collar office jobs. It's really cringeworthy to see adults adopting these personas out of the blue like they are still in high school. Especially when it's people you know personally who were anything but "country" five years ago.

It's like the same people who tried to convince you that Gaithersburg is the "ghetto" have given up on that lie and are now try to convince you that it's the "sticks". I've seen white people go as far to do stereotypical redneck things like park an old truck caked with mud in the front lawn of their very suburban whitebred white collar upper middle class neighborhood.

Is this all because suburban dwelling white people feel that they have no culture at the end of the day? Is it because white men feel emasculated by liberalism and upper middle class white collar white male privilege and want to reclaim their masculinity by superficially embracing redneck culture? Is it because Trump's "Make America Great Again" movement has riled up faux rural patriotism and voyeurism amongst upper middle class whites for working class white people who are going extinct because of low birth rates, drug addiction and unemployment? Do you really have to tailgate everybody in your spotless lifted truck with an empty bed? Do you really have to stare down people of color like they are out of place wearing your Larry the Cable Guy costume like this is some dive bar deep in Appalachia when you're at a Chipotle in Rockville? When are you going to cut off your ironic working class man mustache that makes you look like a character in a Jonah Hill movie?

Feeling threatened much? Now here's an example of why businesses aren't choosing Montgomery County.

Too many angry racists!

[Mutiny77]

Originally Posted by finalmove

Feeling threatened much? Now here's an example of why businesses aren't choosing Montgomery County.

Too many angry racists!

I'm pretty sure corporate execs aren't scouting C-D for reasons to choose or exclude a place for/from consideration for corporate expansion/relocation.

[plive202]

Your observations are highly exaggerated, and there are native Moco folks, older ones especially, who do not at all fit your mold of a wanna be blue collar. I live in rockville now and there are plenty of working class old timers. Except for Potomac and parts of Bethesda, MoCo was not always upper middle class. In fact there were lots of white working class communities. Certain areas people do have accents not far off from baltimore white folks. I don't think you know MoCo as well you think you do.

Of course there are some phonies, probably kids of working class locals, who pretend to be salt of the earth types but live in McMansions. Same with Gburg folks (or kids from parts of PG for that matter) acting like theyre so hood but far from it.

[westsideboy]

Wait...are these the same people who are willing to pay $6 a dozen for farm eggs, consider Poolesville "Western Maryland," and call their lawn mowers "tractors?" If so, ignore them and continue on with the rest of your life.

[Turnerbro]

Out in the Poolesville area, there are a decent amount of "good ol boys" That area is still pretty exurban. Also the race baiting garbage in this post is really unnecessary, and frankly just makes you seem racist.

[santafe400]

This is a funny thread. And aren't most of the white folks who you refer to as "Rednecks" in adjacent Frederick County just former expats from Montgomery, P.G., and the Baltimore area?

[westsideboy]

Originally Posted by santafe400

This is a funny thread. And aren't most of the white folks who you refer to as "Rednecks" in adjacent Frederick County just former expats from Montgomery, P.G., and the Baltimore area?

Historically speaking (meaning like a generation and a half ago) the "Frednecks" (btw, I HATE that term) were the native white people.

Now? Maybe some of the kids of transplants qualify, I dunno.

[adelphi_sky]

Gotta love all the wannabe human migration scientists in this thread. Not one study or source of migration patterns have been offered to back up the claim.