What is a redneck?

[FreshTressa]

Rednecks Unite!!

I'm a bit of a redneck. Can't help it....grew up in Montana and it is in the blood .

 

[brerrabbit]

How Redneck am I and how redneck are parts of my family?

Well I know what Opossum tastes like and can tell you it is best when baked with sweet potatoes.

I know that armadillo tastes like pork.

One of my first targets for shooting when at the age of five I learned how to shoot was a 1948 Ford Coupe that had been abandoned in the pasture at my grandparents.

I have eaten pan fried squirrel brains and believe it or not it didn't taste to bad.

Our Family Cemetary is located out in the country and since we have an association meeting there once a year a cousin decided he needed to build an outhouse near it just in case.

Not meaning it to be an insult but I have a third cousin that looks just like the banjo playing kid from the movie "Deliverance".

I know what the term "down to the wash" means and it has nothing to do with washing clothes.

My Grandmother and Grandfather both chewed Levi Garrett powdered snuff their entire lives.

A perfectly acceptable meal can consist of Mustard greens with pork and a pan of cornbread.

These are just a few of my Redneck tendencies I try not to talk about to often.

 

[Cool-Beans]

If you missed 5th grade graduation because you were on jury duty...you might be a redneck.

If you working TV sits on top of your non-working TV...you might be a redneck. OMG! This was us once! The one with sound on the bottom, the one with a picture on top!

 

[perdidobay]

The all-knowing Mr. Foxworthy defines redneck as the complete and and total absence of class.

This is wrong, he really said "A redneck has a glorious absence of sophistication" which I think sums it up pretty well. And by the way, rednecks come from everywhere, every country.

 

[wvjovifan]

Being from WV, I have heard all the redneck jokes! And I know most of them live around here......My favorite Jeff Foxworthy -- If your patio furniture used to be your livin' room furniture.....YOU MIGHT BE A REDNECK

 

[nannerbadnanner]

If you working TV sits on top of your non-working TV...you might be a redneck. OMG! This was us once! The one with sound on the bottom, the one with a picture on top!

Are we related? That so happened in my family, too!

 

[CF'er]

The Wild Hanlons on CBS's Treasure Hunters. Pat just screams redneck to me! http://www.nbc.com/Treasure_Hunters/teams/hanlons_pat.shtml

first time Monday. He saw the Wild Hanlons and asked me "Where are they from?"

They do scream "redneck" to me and I live in middle GA. Half my in-laws qualify.

Our last WDW trip was at the WL and we called it the Clampets do Disney. We felt like out of place Rednecks. Couldn't even think about staying at the GF. Hubby just looked at me and laughed. Hard as we might try we could never pull that one off.

If you can't laugh at yourself who can you laugh at?

 

[horseshowmom]

DD says we must be rednecks, because we sometimes have to use a bullhorn to call our Chihuahua.

(To try to restore our dignity, may I explain that the bullhorn was from our old softball coaching days and that we live in a very rural area with a Chihuahua who is a house dog who wants to be freed! )

 

[arminnie]

My dad's bio parents were second cousins and were from the hills of Tennessee. His dad was a coal miner. I think they were pretty redneck.

My dad was a city boy all the way though - raised in inner city Detroit.

My nephew who was attending Lawrenceville (as many of you in the N.E. know, it's a very, very exclusive prep school just outside of Princeton) was visiting a distant aunt in the backwoods of TN with his dad and granddad. He politely asked where the restroom was, and she handed him a bottle to take outside.

I'd have given anything to have seen his face, but I heard that he handled it with total grace - pretty good for a 16 year old.

 

[cteddiesgirl]

OK.

I'm not a redneck or hillbilly. But, some of my family is.
In my dad's family, we have "double cousins".
A set of brothers married a set of sisters. Therefore, the children on double cousins.

Then, I had and uncle who married his ex-niece.
That's right. My uncle married the girl who used to be the step-daughter of his younger sister.

 

[Cool-Beans]

Are we related? That so happened in my family, too!

OK, did you also have to sit in different places depending on what channel you were watching? We could only sit and cuddle if we were watching ABC! For NBC, one had to be in the middle of the couch and the other in the chair, etc.

 

[Ladybugsy]

I don't understand why people are ashamed to be a redneck. I grew up in L.A...Lower Alabama, (North Florida) and to me, a redneck is someone who can make do with what they have, not pretend to be something they aren't, knows how to have a good time, have a fierce loyalty to the ones they love, and not give a darn about what other people think. Not every redneck is immoral. Just like not every Yankee is a yuppie.

 

[Doesney]

There was a poster who constantly put up pictures and jokes of rednecks not to long ago. Not very funny at all, actually quite immature. I forget the name of the poster, but maybe he/she is gone because the boards have been free of the stupid nonsense.

 

[pirateofthecarolinas]

My DH applied for my sons' lifetime hunting and fishing licenses before we brought them home from the hospital.

Lori

 

[LuvN~Travel]

You might be a redneck if you have been married three times and still have the same In-Laws.

Seriously though - my DH and I it turns out are 5th cousins. When people came to our wedding - we had to have a middle section for the people related to both of us! ("who's side will you be sitting on today?" "Uh - I guess we are in the middle")

Yep - that's me - born and raised in Boondocks, Alabama. My brother recently got married also - his wife's dad showed up to walk her down the aisle - but he couldn't - he was too stumbling drunk to walk. Her brother had to do it. Buncha hillbilly's.....

But I promise - just cause your from Alabama doesn't necessarily mean you are a redneck or a hillbilly....

That sounds like what happened with my parents recently. They and some of my uncles have been doing loads of research into our ancestry.
First of all my father's parents were never fond of my mother, and have been pretty rude at times over the years.
Well lo and behold, my uncle recently went over to my parents' house to give my mom the 'bad' news. Turns out that my parents are related! We had no idea!
As for me, I'm still lmao over the whole thing! I know my grandmother was NOT pleased to hear it.