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Originally Posted by Idyllic
o.k., Research Port St. Joe, FL, (the original capital) or maybe St. Augustine, FL (the oldest U.S. City). N. Fl is far more southern than you think, we are the "Red Neck Riviera".
What I wonder, is just how American your statement is, no less than theirs, you would basically kick Americans out for not acting more, in your perception, "American" hmmmm....
Not all red necks are southern and not all southerners are red necks, do you know what a real red neck is, really? They are like crackers off horses, pioneers and blue collar workers, they are Americans.
p.s. everything from Maryland down on the east is South, that would include D.C. so, I'm thinking it's not the south, it's the individual, right?
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I'm not quite sure what your point is here. Perhaps you mistook my statement. I'm well-versed in my Floridian history, as I lived there for more than a decade, still visit it from time to time, and I do know my "Mason-Dixon line", as well as a whole heap of Md. and D.C. tirivial knowledge. Also, I'm not your enemy here (if that's what you were referring to, which I'm still really not sure).
I refer to
rednecks as the bigoted Southerners general population who feel it is their right, because of where they were born and what was afforded to them upon birth, to stand up fro what they believe, so much so that they outcast and disparage anyone who would dare not "assimilate" to their ways, because, well, for lack of better term, there is no better way to live than as an American, "in America".
This is a redneck's "
Southern Burning Pride", and it seems as though this Tim James is no different, but a true-to-life example of this sterotype.