I read the whole article and I found it a great read. Maybe you’re upset because you’re not a true ‘redneck’. A true ‘redneck’ isn’t upset when someone makes fun of them...they just consider the source and move on.
Maybe I’m missing something, but I don’t think the article was meant to be a put down to rednecks...but hey, I’m simple...I’m a redneck :-)
Cheers!
You are correct, I am not a redneck. Born and raised in NY, I lived on the North Yorkshire Moors UK and then 5 years in Nashville, TN before moving to Northern NJ. Blue collar, manual labor all my life.
I am offended because the author says that anyone who is educated is a dem and anyone who is not a dem is a redneck. And the pic they paint of rednecks is really negative.
Rednecks are not bad, stupid, boorish or the embarrassment that I think he wants the rest of the world to think they are. And not everyone who is not a dem is this definition he claims ‘rednecks’ to be.
I might just be a bit touchy when ppl try to make us look bad.
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All this has become so deeply instilled as to now be reflexive. It represents many of the worst traits in American culture and a few of the best.And that has every thinking person here in the US, except perhaps John McCain and Sarah Palin, worried.