Well, not all Redneck culture is detrimental!
interesting take on the issue
Black Rednecks And White Liberals by Thomas Sowelland for counter point...
The REDNECK MANIFESTO: HOW HILLBILLIES HICKS AND WHITE TRASH BECAME AMERICAS SCAPEGOATS by Jim Goad
Take a look at the stereotypical culture of black teens and the reality of redneck teens and you'll find that there really isn't that much of a difference.
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Here's a thought... stop whining and get out to do something for yourself. Waiting around for someone to provide you with something you "deserve" or an opportunity is lazy, stupid, and inevitably doomed to failure.
This still boils down to blaming someone else for your own failures.
There still is the discrimination against the "redneck" today. Ask any WASP country club golf fan who he'd rather see succeed- Tiger Woods or John Daly.
The pathology of the urban underclass is not explained by slandering African culture or by slandering the culture of the Celtic borderlands.
The shiftlessness, laziness, criminality and violence we see today was not in evidence in the 1940s and 1950s. Poor white and poor black Southerners at that time both believed in the virtues of hard work and Christian living and abided by them as well as any other Americans.
What happened was the rise of socialist ideology in the 1960s - the false ideology of pan-Africanism, the idolization of Third World Communist movements, the sexual liberation movement, the victim culture and the paternalism of the Great Society.
Poor black and white Southern men before the 1960s generally married the mothers of their children, avoided drug abuse and crime and went to church on Sunday.
Then race hustlers and poverty pimps encouraged illiteracy, disrespect for law and order, rejection of the work ethic and disdain for traditional Christianity.
The cultural plight of the black underclass was created by white Northerners in universities, not by white sharecroppers on the farm.
Please, we prefer the term, "Agro-Americans" thankyou...
Importation of African slaves was also not random. The black people who were brought here as slaves were captured by other black people (faster, smarter, stronger, meaner other) and sold to Western slave traders. Thus the black people who ended up as slaves in the American South were among the losers in the primal competitiveness of black African society.
Isn't that a song?
Black Rednecks and White Liberals and Blue Ribbon Beer.
All I know is that by the time America's white liberal daughters are sent off to college, they desperately want to embrace anything but the civilized life they've always known. That "something" is the manufactured product called ghetto-glam.
If they think being impoverished in a violent neighborhood is fun, they should all be forced to go live there - instead of residing in the safety of their dorms, which usually have police-call buttons located ever 50 feet across the campus.
I don't think it makes sense at all.
It ignores that large numbers of blacks lived in places like Philadelphia, Baltimore and New York, away from the Scotch-Irish.
It igores that black slaves in the South had little contact with those "rednecks" and that the plantation owners were not necessarily of that particular line. Georgia was populated by prisoners, at first, not all of whome were "rednecks".
No, I just don't give this theory a lot of credence.
OTH, if blacks think they are the keepers the Hee-Haw flame, they will drop it real quick. :]
check vdare.com for an interesting rebuttal to this.
This will be read as another reason why these people can blame their failures on slavery. If they weren't forceably brought here, they would never have had to endure the redneck culture.
Fact of the matter is, huge populations are five generations removed from the redneck culture and still hahe done basically nothing to change their lot in life.
There is nothing about "sustaining African culture" that justifies anything about the way the black subculture behaves today. Plain and simple, they reap what they sow.
Can somebody say Amen?
I thought it was this kind of redneck problem.
A man owns a Tennessee house and 3.7 acres of land in a hollow with an average slope of 15%. The man has 5 children. Can each of the children place a mobile home on the man's land?
Or maybe this one:
At a reduction in gene pool variability rate of 7.5% per generation, how long will it take a town that has been bypassed by the interstate to breed a country-western singer?
Read this last week. Good article!