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During this US election cycle we are hearing a lot from the pundits and candidates about "heartland voters," and "white working class voters." What they are talking about are rednecks. But in their political correctness, media types cannot bring themselves to utter the word "redneck." So I'll say it for them: redneck-redneck-redneck-redneck.

This is an email I received from a good friend in New York City. She is a Bryn Mawr graduate, and is a physician currently engaged in cancer research at Columbia University. This is an email she received from a Bryn Mawr classmate of hers who lives in Alaska. Because you, like me, may never have heard of Sarah Palin until today, you may find this an interesting perspective from an Alaskan resident. B Begin forwarded message: Subject: just in from Bonnie's classmate Dear classmates - As an Alaskan, I am writing to give all of you some information on...

travisandjonathan Style: Sketch Joined: October 23, 2005 Last Sign In: 15 hours ago Videos Watched: 13,299 Subscribers: 13,394 Channel Views: 456,571   http://www.travisandjonatha... http://www.redstateupdate.com    http://www.myspace.com/redstateupdatesongs    All Music Guide review "How Freedom Sounds": At first glance, the comedy duo Red State Update may look like a Blue Collar Comedy Tour ripoff, but they're the darlings of progressive online magazine Salon.com and on the buddy list of "those liberal nonproliferationists" CNN. Thanks to their video submission, it was on said cable news network that young bumpkin Dunlap (played by Jonathan Shockley) and the overalled, Uncle Jesse-esque Jackie Broyles (Travis...

This time it's a duly certified, establishment-vetted, card-carrying member of the Mainstream Media who's been caught, tried and convicted by the always watchful PC Police. This time it was no Howard Stern or Don Imus, or even a football coach lettin' 'er rip at a press conference. This time it was NBC's own, always respectable if not downright pedestrian Andrea Mitchell, aka Mrs. Alan Greenspan. Goodness. What did she do? It seems the lady went and referred to an area of southwestern Virginia as "redneck, sort of bordering-on-Appalachia country." Ooh-wee!The linguistically delicate of southwestern Virginia are still squealing. These easily...

DEEPWATER, Mo. -- Officials were trying Tuesday to decide whether to file charges against a Missouri man who fatally shot his wife while trying to install a satellite TV system in the bedroom of their home. Patsy Long, 34, of Deepwater, died after being shot in the chest with a .22-caliber handgun on Saturday. Her husband, Ronald Long, fired the shot from the inside of their home after several unsuccessful efforts to punch a hole through the exterior wall using other means. Henry County sheriff's deputies said the woman was hit by the second of two shots fired by her...

You May Be A Redneck Pilot If... ... your stall warning plays "Dixie." ... your cross-country flight plan uses flea markets as check points. ... you think sectionals charts should show trailer parks. ... you've ever used moonshine as avgas. ... you have mud flaps on your wheel pants. ... you think GPS stands for going perfectly straight. ... your toothpick keeps poking your mike. ... you constantly confuse Beechcraft with Beechnut. ... just before impact, you are heard saying, "Hey y'all, watch this!" ... you have a black airplane with a big #3 on the side. ... you've ever...

Forrest's soldiers loved him. His fellow generals admired him. His enemies were terrified at the mere mention of his name. Gen. Robert E. Lee said of his finest subordinate commanders, the most remarkable was one he "had never met" — Forrest. And U.S. and foreign military officers alike have studied Forrest’s campaigns over the decades since the end of the war. It has even been speculated that some aspects of the German Blitzkrieg were patterned after some of Forrest's operations.

The Redneck Games began as a joke in response to the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. In response to comments that the 1996 games would be held by a bunch of rednecks, D. J. Mac Davis started the Redneck Games, held annually in East Dublin, Ga. Geddy Lehman shows off his trophy after winning first place in the mud pit belly flop... "Freight Train", the unofficial mascot at the 2007 Summer Redneck Games, holds the ceremonial torch... Debbie Abear sells food at the 2007 Redneck Games... The daylong yearly festival celebrates the southern redneck way of life. A reveler wears...

Humor folks. I know emotions run hot on this issue(mine do), but spew your anger elsewhere. This is for fun. I was talking with one of my customers today and the subject of Jeff Foxworthy and his "You might be a redneck if .. . " humor came up and I said, what if there was humor about you might be an illegal alien if . . and he said, You might be an illegal alien if you go to the DMV and there is a long line and you get moved to the front of the line." And I...

"You might be a redneck if........" 1. Your Southern Babtist Church house has an ash tray on the right side of the front steps and a spittoon on the left. 2. You can entertain yourself for more than 15 minutes with a flyswatter. 3. Your boat has not left the driveway in 15 years. 4. You burn your yard rather than mow it. 6. The Salvation Army declines your furniture. 7. You offer to give someone the shirt off your back and they don't want it. 8. You have the local taxidermist on speed dial. 9. You come back from...

The pentagon announced TODAY the formation of a new 500-man elite fighting unit called the United States Redneck Special Forces (USRSF). These boys will be dropped into Iraq and have been given the following facts about terrorists: 1. The season opened today. 2. There is no limit. 3. They taste like chicken. 4. They don't like beer, pickups, country music or Jesus. 5. They are directly responsible for the death of Dale Earnhardt. The Pentagon expects the problem in Iraq to be over by Friday.

The three men arrested for allegedly digging up the grave of a woman who died last week in Grant County are also charged with attempted sexual assault. The three men appeared in Grant County Circuit Court on Tuesday. According to a criminal complaint, the three men were charged with digging up the grave at the St. Charles Catholic Cemetery in Cassville with the intent to have sex with the victim's body, WISC-TV reported. Alexander Grunke, his twin brother Nicholas Grunke and their friend Dustin Radke -- all 20 years old -- have been in a Grant County jail since Saturday....

Video of a guy rigging 8500 bottle rockets to set off at (nearly) the same time.

FORT PAYNE, Ala. — A Valley Head man was arrested for walking naked along a highway while waving an American flag. The DeKalb County Sheriff's Department arrested Gerald Lynn Kelley, 52, and charged him with public lewdness in connection with the incident, the Fort Payne Times-Journal reported Tuesday. DeKalb Deputy Mike James said deputies were sent to Hammondville about 3 p.m. Sunday after receiving calls about two men walking nude along U.S. 11, just inside the town limits. James said Kelley, who was allegedly drunk, was wearing only a cowboy hat and boots. <---SNIP---->

A cardboard sign hanging in a tree, directed at a boy with developmental disabilities, and the boy's mother, isn't happy. Neighbor: "I'm not taking the sign down, last night was the first night of peace we've got in a long ----- time." Carrie Heaton, Colton's Mother: "They've put up this sign now, that we feel is very discriminatory against my son." The cardboard sign is hanging in a tree in the Central Utah town of Nephi. It is also being denounced tonight by advocates for the disabled. The boy's family noticed the sign pointed at their home on Wednesday night,...

Tougher penalties are sought in sex cases By John Greiner The Oklahoman Repeat child molesters could face the death penalty, life without parole or life in prison, under legislation approved Tuesday by the state Senate Judiciary Committee. "These are individuals who've proven they can't be rehabilitated," said state Sen. Jay Paul Gumm, D-Durant. "I believe child sex abuse to be the ultimate crime." Gumm, after being questioned by state Sen. Bernest Cain, said he didn't know if the U.S. Supreme Court would approve a death penalty for a repeat child molester. Cain, D-Oklahoma City, offered an amendment to eliminate the...

A pick-up truck driver, who finished treatments for a brain tumor last year, may have suffered a seizure before plowing straight through a Fort Worth house around 2:00 a.m. Sunday in the 3500 block of Sagecrest Terrace. Police arrested the driver, 23-year-old Hudson Boyd Hamner, on unrelated traffic warrants, but may also charge him with reckless driving. The owners of the home escaped injury despite claims that Hamner tried maneuvering the car once inside the home after the crash. "...He came right in through here, which is the dining room," said Stewart Henderson, the home's owner. Henderson, his wife and...

According to a video tape released today, last month’s air strike on a Pakistani target failed to take out Al Qaeda’s number two man Ayman al-Zawahri. In other news: The Pentagon announced today the formation of a new 500-man elite fighting unit called the United States Redneck Special Forces. Read More... Craig DeLuz Visit The Home of Uncommon Sense... www.craigdeluz.com

Posted on Fri, Dec. 02, 2005 Police: Two men charged in brawl in which deer leg was used as weapon The Associated Press ALLENTOWN -- Two men, including a 19-year-old accused of brandishing the leg of a deer, were charged in a brawl at the former Troxell Middle School, police said. South Whitehall police Sgt. Tom Gersbach said the charges probably were among the last stemming from a fight involving 35 to 40 people that erupted shortly before midnight on Oct. 1 after several weeks of disputes among Parkland High School students. Chaz F. Buzinski, of South Whitehall Township, who...

From Neal Boortz's "Redneck Scrapbook" today...25 ways to tell if you're a Redneck 1. The Halloween pumpkin on your porch has more teeth than your spouse. 2. You let your twelve-year-old daughter smoke at the dinner table in front of her kids. 3. You've been married three times and still have the same in-laws. 4. You think a woman who is "out of your league" bowls on a different night. 5. Jack Daniel's makes your list of "most admired people." 6. You wonder how service stations keep their restrooms so clean. 7. Anyone in your family ever died right after...

Tehran, 31 Oct. (AKI) - An Iranian on-line daily has reported that the hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is riled by the decline in the Tehran stock exchange and would have liked to opt for a drastic solution. “If it had been possible to hang a couple of people, the Tehran stock exchange would already have been put in order," said Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the daily rooz-on-line reports, quoting sources close to the president. During his electoral campaign, Ahmadinejad had described investments in stocks and shares as "a game of chance, contrary to Islamic principles". The subsequent denials by the aides of...

Your standard of living improves when you go camping. Your prenuptial agreement mentions chickens. You have jacked up your home to look for a dog. You have a relative living in your garage. There is a belch on your answering machine greeting. You have rebuilt a carburetor while sitting on the commode. None of the tires on your van are the same size. Your town put the new garbage truck in the Christmas parade. Your local beauty salon also fixes cars. Starting your car involves popping the hood. Your garbage man is confused about what goes and what stays. You've...

Last night I was pickin my banjo, drinkin a beer and enjoying a dip of Copenhagen and started thinkin bout my all time favorite C&W songs. You know, the ones you don't get tired of listening to. This is my top 5. 5. He Stopped Loving Her Today by George Jones 4. You're Not the Best by Charlie Robison 3. Rodeo by Garth Brooks 2. Amarillo by Morning by George Strait 1. Song of Wyoming by Chris LeDoux

An Irishman in a wheelchair entered a restaurant one afternoon and asked the waitress for a cup of coffee. Tha Irishman looked across the restaurant and asked, "Is that Jesus sitting over there?" The waitress nodded "yes," so the Irishman told her to give Jesus a cup of coffee on him. The next patron to come in was an Englishman with a hunched back. He shuffled over to a booth, painfully sat down, and asked the waitress for a cup of hot tea. He also glanced across the restaurant and asked, "Is that Jesus over there?" The waitress nodded, so...

The Pentagon announced today the formation of a new 500 man elite fighting unit called the US REDNECK SPECIAL FORCES (USRSF). These North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, West Virginia, Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, and Tennessee boys will be dropped into Iraq and have been given the following facts about Terrorists: 1. The season opened today. 2. There is no limit. 3. They taste just like chicken. 4. They don't like beer, pickups, country music, or Jesus. 5. They are DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE for the death of Dale Earnhardt. That mess in the middle east should be over IN...

An Iowa man with white supremacist leanings was arrested after he told truck drivers over "citizens' band" radio that he was planning to set off a bomb in Washington, police said. Terry Daniels, 44, was found at a roadside gas station about 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of Chicago at 3:45 a.m. after truck drivers called police with his license plate number and a description of which direction his blue Ford van was heading. "We didn't find any explosives," Princeton, Illinois police chief Tom Root said. "We found a lot of documents like anti-government stuff and white supremacist stuff. There...

The top 40 things you would NEVER hear a Redneck say, no matter how much they've had to drink, no matter how far from the South they've wandered and no matter how much the skunks are threatening: 40. Oh, I just couldn't. Hell, she's only sixteen. 39. I'll take Shakespeare for 1000, Alex. 38. Duct tape won't fix that. 37. Honey, I think we should sell the pickup and buy a family sedan. 36. Come to think of it, I'll have a Heineken. 35. We don't keep firearms in this house. 34. Has anybody seen the sideburns trimmer? 33. You...

Redneck IQ Test I am sick and tired of hearing about how dumb people are in the South. I challenge any so-called smart Yankee to take this exam: 1. Calculate the smallest limb diameter on a persimmon tree that will support a 10 pound possum. 2. Which of these cars will rust out the quickest when placed on blocks in your front yard? (A) '65 Ford Fairlane (B) '69 Chevrolet Chevelle, or (C) '64 Pontiac GTO. 3. If your uncle builds a still, which operates at a capacity of 20 gallons of shine produced per hour, how many car radiators...

Here is today's installment of The Redneck Scrapbook

Here is today's installation of the "Redneck Scrapbook"

In today's installation of the Redneck Scrapbook we bring you a family portrait... Previous scrapbooks can be found here

Paris, France.......Paris, Kentucky QUICK! Back to Paris France!!!

Group trying to block building name change: NASHVILLE, Tennessee -- A state appeals court heard arguments Wednesday over whether Vanderbilt University can remove the word "Confederate" from a dormitory the United Daughters of the Confederacy helped build in the 1930s. The Tennessee chapter of the group claims the university's effort to drop the first word from Confederate Memorial Hall violates decades-old contracts, but Vanderbilt claims the contracts are no longer valid. The judges, who did not say when they will issue a ruling, had strong words for both sides. "You're arguing social values and making the courts be the tough...

SCV supports Jaqueline Duty Confederate Prom Dress Lawsuit to be filed in Federal court in Lexington, KY Press Release - December 17, 2004 - For Immediate Release This past May Jacqueline Duty, an attractive honor student in Russell, Kentucky, prepared to attend prom night wearing a special dress she had designed herself. It was a classically cut strapless sheath, ankle-length with a shallow slit on one side, and sewn completely out of beaded sequins. And it tastefully incorporated a symbol of her Southern heritage; a Confederate Battle Flag turned upwards so that the starry blue arms of the St. Andrew’s...

Americans Owe Confederate History Respect By CHRIS EDWARDS The Time Has Come To Take A Stand After attending the Confederate Memorial Day service on June 1 in Higginsville, I found myself believing our nation should be ashamed for not giving more respect and recognition to our ancestors. I understand that some find the Confederate flag offensive because they feel it represents slavery and oppression. Well, here are the facts: The Confederate flag flew over the South from 1861 to 1865. That's a total of four years. The U.S. Constitution was ratified in April 1789, and that document protected and condoned...

The defining moment of my visit to New Orleans a year ago occurred in a gift shop. I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit this, but at least it wasn't the kind that sells feather boas and t-shirts with jazz-playing lobsters. I wasn't a sorority girl nursing my hangover at Café Du Monde during Mardi Gras; I was a tourist visiting what used to be a sprawling, stately slave plantation. I was busy mulling over that subtly troubling experience, browsing through the gift shop's bookshelves, when I came to a curious array of volumes. The title The South Was Right! jumped out...

Confederate heritage groups got excited when Gov. Bob Riley's annual proclamation designating April as Confederate History and Heritage Month dropped a paragraph saying slavery was the cause of the Civil War. The groups were pleased because they consider that description of slavery historically inaccurate. Their excitement, however, was short lived. "It was a mistake," said Jeff Emerson, the governor's communications director, on Monday. He said he did not know how the mistake was made. Emerson said the governor was unaware of the deletion until The Associated Press contacted his office. The governor quickly reissued the proclamation with the paragraph on...

Police have arrested a 28-year-old man they say shot his 14-year-old girlfriend Wednesday evening in Blacksburg. Michael Paul Collins was arrested shortly before noon today at an apartment in the Cedar Hill complex, across Blacksburg from the Clayton Estates mobile home park where he is accused of shooting the 14-year-old. Collins was charged with aggravated malicious wounding, a class II felony. The arrest followed a tense 10-minute or so wait that police thought could develop into a standoff — Collins had come to the apartment door when officers arrived, but then ducked back inside and shut the door. A short...

Top 10 Signs you are a member of a Redneck Baptist Church 10. Pastor's waders for the baptistry are full camo with a built-in duck-call on the shoulder strap; 9. Sunday's offering receipts included a $10 store credit voucher for Joe Bob's Liquorama; 8. Revivals with guest preacher always coincide with church staff vacation -- the first weekend of deer season; 7. Church bus no longer has wheels or an engine, but is still parked out back to use for Sunday School classroom space; 6. Church orchestra consists of a banjo, steel guitar, mouth organ, bass fiddle, and a tub...

It's merely a guess - and an admittedly presumptuous one, too - but here's some unsolicited advice for attorney George Felos - as long as Jeb Bush reigns over Florida, your client Michael Schiavo will never be permitted to allow his brain-damaged wife Terri to die. Even if courts continue to rule in Michael Schiavo's favor? Nope, not even then. Not even if indeed it was Terri's wish never to be simply kept alive as the world's leading Larry King prop?Nope, not even then. Not even if the medical evidence supports the argument that Terri Schiavo's consciousness slipped away 15...

... Liberals have delighted in referring to "The Redneck Vote" and making fun of us. They seem to think, in their distorted progressive and elitist thought processes, that being a "Redneck" is a bad thing. Maybe it's time we looked at the core values and beliefs of this culture that believes in home, family, God and country. There may be more of you who think like us rednecks than you might believe. How do you know if you are a Redneck? You might be a Redneck if; * It never occurred to you to be offended by the phrase, "One...

Go here http://villagevoice.com/news/0447,sutton,58615,9.html to see an utterly biased, disgusting characterization of those who are happy with President Bush's win as gap toothed, wife beating rednecks. I hesitate to post this in humor because it is NOT funny. Laura Ingraham is talking about this right now. I apologize if this has been posted. I did search but did not find it.

Go to Dr. Webman for all the laughs you can stand. Lots of Redneck joke-images and puns. Caution some of them may be a little rough for the more sensitive eyes.And no I'm not pushing this site it just has a lot of funny images at the beginning.

News4Jax.com Man Claims He Stabbed Poodle In Self-Defense POSTED: 11:41 pm EST January 1, 2005JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A 47-year-old man is charged with animal cruelty after police say he stabbed his mother's poodle. Daniel Wayne Fox Police said Daniel Fox admitted to stabbing the dog, claiming it was in self-defense.Fox told police that the dog tried to attack him, biting at his ankles. Investigators say Fox was wearing long pants and did not have any bite marks or signs of any injury.The dog was taken to an animal hospital. Copyright 2004 by News4Jax.com. All rights reserved. This material may...

In 1997, Michale Graves, then lead singer for the horror punk rock group the Misfits, found himself on tour in Germany at the site where the Berlin Wall once stood. He took home with him a piece of that wall and with a few years' time, a bold commitment to fighting the mindset that built it. Punk rock is all about resisting the establishment. But punk rock itself has an establishment that is driven by Left wing, anti-war, anti-life, anti-faith politics. To scream, as Green Day does in its new CD "American Idiot," "I'm not a part of a redneck...

Rules and regulations 10. Lights covered with shotgun shells get a five point bonus. 9. A turn signal stuck in the on position of a car parked on the lawn does not qualify as a decoration. 8. Mounted animals may be used in nativity scene, but taxidermist's credit must be available (fish are NOT animals). 7. A maximum of three vehicles on blocks may be decorated at any one time. 6. Live babies used in nativity scene must be brought inside at night. 5. Lights that have been left up all year get 10 bonus points if still working. 4....

Count Me In ... We have enjoyed the redneck jokes for years. It's time to take a reflective look at the core beliefs of a culture that values home, family, country and God. If I had to stand before a dozen terrorist who threaten my life, I'd choose a half dozen or so rednecks to back me up. Tire irons, squirrel guns, and grit -- that's what rednecks are made of. I hope I am one of them. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You might be a redneck if. . . It never occurred to you to be offended by the phrase, "One nation,...

Mene Mene Tecum Ufarsum ... coming to grips with being a zealot - “Virginia” learned “Yes, there is a Santa Claus” because she read it in the newspaper; so I suppose I am an “Ignorant Southern Redneck Republican Religious Zealot” because I sure have been reading that in those high falutin’ “major metropolitan dailies” since November 2nd. All I did was express my support for The Cowboy and Ms Laura but I guess that is the litmus test for zealotry … who knew? At 6:30 AM on Nov 2 I awoke as "a greedy country club Republican with my Halliburton...