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Originally Posted by Idyllic
What I am saying is that Tim James ain't no redneck he just an ignorant man, a rreeeaaaalllll ignorant man. See, we rednecks would be far to drunk to say some shit like that and not fall over laughing, what a moron, one test...... I am a redneck, born and reared in the south, grew up in trailers and played in the bog-in mud. I lived in a small town where integration was greatly noticed, and the tracks still separated north from south of color. This disease of the uneducated shitheads isn't just a southern bug, ignorance is rampant throughout all the U.S., the world.
I am tired of the South being labeled the red headed step child, cause that don't change the fact that we is family.
Some southerners are proud of their heritage, redneck is the term for a farmer, a hard working, blue collar, piss poor, farmer. Cracker is the name for a cattle herder, cracking the whip, these labels mean an entirely different thing to many people, what you basically said was that I was a foreigner in my own home because some jack ass ignorant politician acted like a big boob and he was from the south harsh.
I don't take much personal, I don't give much personal, especially to someone I don't really know. Maybe I can get to know you and I will let you hurt my feelings then, enemy, huh?
The comment about MD south being southern was meant for "give the south a bad name" the south is a really big place, we are not all ignorant, and James does not represent the south, he represents narrow, uneducated, jerk.
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I see now. You identify yourself as a redneck, and therefore you were offended by my generalized statements of an
all-encompassing defintion of what a redneck may be. I still mean no offense, but from what I've come to learn over the decades of my travels all across the Sunbelt and Bible Belt, there are rednecks everywhere as you say, from California to Florida, even displaced as far up as in New York, and anywhere in-between. Sure, people may have different takes on what they refer to themselves as, and how they would like to be viewed, but in my experience,
redneck is somewhat of a derogatory term, kind of in the same way as calling one a nerd, or a musclehead.
Some embrace the term, live by it, or try to change its meaning by example, and make it mean something not quite so stinging. But still, this debate is not about whether or not my applied definition is right, or whether I'm in the wrong for using it to describe the ignorant statements of a Southern would-be politician. It's just that his stance, along with his political ties with both his father, and siblings in the family, show something that is very akin to "be one of us, or don't be a part of this town (city, county, state) at all".