I have a 1957 video that has a bizarre scene of two rednecks. It is supposed to be a comedic scene but comes off as creepily menacing. I figure both rednecks to have been in their late 40s so they were brought up before television and maybe didn't even have electricity at home. When you're a kid growing up with TV, the Internet, and video games, you are way too urbanized to be a real redneck, few of whom actually exist anymore.
You could argue with me on the latter point but after you see my video of REAL rednecks, you would be hard pressed to think of anybody you know who acts like that anymore.
p.s. Junior Samples was REAL Redneck.
As I said, I was raised in the south. We lived on a dirt road in what could best be described as the swamps of Northern Florida/Southern Georgia. Of 8 kids, the eldest 4 were born in the house and the youngest 4 were fortunate enough to have been born in a hospital. We got our first TV in 1966. I knew what they were as I had seen one before at a neighbors. We didn’t have a phone until then also. We chopped wood for heat and eat, drank and bathed in sulfur water. I would imagine there are few southerners who live today the way we did back then but I have been back there many times and have never seen one. In the south in the 60s, everyone was a redneck.
“Turtleman” is pretty close.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cAVTvc89ME&feature=relmfu
I live in ‘redneck country’....and PROUD of it! I get tickled watching ‘Swamp People’ because they put subtitles on it for the ‘city folk’. *snort*