Rednecks: 7 Tips on How to be Redneck

[Tropicana]

Lornwolf let me take a peek at his copy of the Redneck Almanac....they sell blonde wigs and I may order some. Spotted this:

How to Be a Redneck
Wear flannel shirts, jeans, overalls, and a baseball cap.
You can not go wrong with a cowboy hat either. Rednecks never really care about what clothes they wear. As long as you're willing to get deer blood and beer on your clothes, then that is the acceptable clothing you should be wearing. Cut-off sleeves earns extra points.

Probably the most important aspect of being a redneck is the kind of truck you drive. The bigger and louder it is, the more of a redneck you are.
Great for transporting your dogs, your guns, or maybe just your wife. Only use a Chevy/GMC, Dodge, or Ford.

Tobacco is also very important.
Only smoke the finest Marlboro Reds and Grizzly chewing tobacco. Wintergreen is another possibility, but if you can't handle it, straight or mint will do. By doing this, you will look really mean and tough.


Did someone say beer? Rednecks will spend countless hours everyday consuming that high calorie filling beverage.
Choosing Budweiser or Bud Light is always the choice of a true redneck. Once done drinking a beer, you are required to take the can and smash it directly into your forehead, looking like a total bad ***. Don't worry about the pain coming from your head.


NASCAR is one sporting event that no redneck can miss.
What's better than seeing cars go 200mph around a circular track, while you're slamming down beers? The answer is nothing.


Confederate flags should be flown on your house and on your truck.

This shows your true pride and colors which are devoted to the deep south.


Rednecks should never worry about their hair. Rednecks are low maintenance but should never let their hair grow out.
Hippies have long hair and those are one people rednecks despise.

[Tropicana]

[blugiant]

tropi da wurd rednecks were given to union mine wurkers, black ann oyinbo, woo use fe wear a red kercheff rund dem neck fe show union solidaritee.

rich oyinbo recast ann change da definition aff redneck fe push division dat y oyinbo woo a gawn like rednecks chatt bout a poor uncoot countree peeps

[RichD]

tropi da wurd rednecks were given to union mine wurkers, black ann oyinbo, woo use fe wear a red kercheff rund dem neck fe show union solidaritee.

rich oyinbo recast ann change da definition aff redneck fe push division dat y oyinbo woo a gawn like rednecks chatt bout a poor uncoot countree peeps

or the miners appropriated the term that was used to refer to the " poor uncoot countree peeps".

[blugiant]

or the miners appropriated the term that was used to refer to the " poor uncoot countree peeps".

da union miners wore red keercheeff rund dem necks dat y peeps started fe cawl dem rednecks

[RichD]

da union miners wore red keercheeff rund dem necks dat y peeps started fe cawl dem rednecks

yes ..but the term was in used to refer to "poorer inhabitants of the rural districts...men who work in the field, as a matter of course" as rednecks before the miners did their thing.

[Tropicana]

tropi da wurd rednecks were given to union mine wurkers, black ann oyinbo, woo use fe wear a red kercheff rund dem neck fe show union solidaritee.

rich oyinbo recast ann change da definition aff redneck fe push division dat y oyinbo woo a gawn like rednecks chatt bout a poor uncoot countree peeps

Now why does it not surprise me that you would come with some revisionist approach to history. Soon mi a go mix you up wid de one name RichD. I see you are both engaging about this. Perhaps Lonewolf will come by and set onoo straight.

[Tropicana]

Just to add more confusion:

Hillbillies and Rednecks

By Todd J. Wilkinson
Many words commonly used in America today have their origins in our Celtic roots. While the following terms discussed are associated today with the American South and southern culture, their origins are distinctly Scottish and Ulster-Scottish (Scots-Irish), and date to the mass immigration of Scottish Lowland and Ulster Presbyterians to America during the 1700's. Whilst there are other competing explanations of the derivation of some of them, we prefer the ones here!

Hillbilly
The origin of this American nickname for mountain folk in the Ozarks and in Appalachia comes from Ulster. Ulster-Scottish (The often incorrectly labeled "Scots-Irish") settlers in the hill-country of Appalachia brought their traditional music with them to the new world, and many of their songs and ballads dealt with William, Prince of Orange, who defeated the Catholic King James II of the Stuart family at the Battle of the Boyne, Ireland in 1690.
Supporters of King William were known as Orangemen and Billy Boys and their North American counterparts were soon referred to as hill-billies. It is interesting to note that a traditional song of the Glasgow Rangers football club today begins with the line, 'Hurrah! Hurrah! We are the Billy Boys!' and shares its tune with the famous American Civil War song, Marching Through Georgia.
Stories abound of American National Guard units from Southern states being met upon disembarking in Britain during the First and Second World Wars with that tune, much to their displeasure! One of these stories comes from Colonel Ward Schrantz, a noted historian and native of Carthage, Missouri ative, and veteran of the Mexican - and veteran of the mexican Border Campaign, as well as the First and Second World Wars - documented a story where the US Army's 30th Division, made up of National Guard units from Georgia, North and South Carolina and Tennessee arrived in the United Kingdom...'a waiting British band broke into welcoming American music, and the soldiery, even the 118th Field Artillery and the 105 Medical Battalion from Georgia, broke into laughter.The excellence of intent and the ignorance of the origins of the American music being equally obvious. The welcoming tune was Marching Through Georgia.'

Redneck
The origins of this term are Scottish and refer to supporters of the National Covenant and The Solemn League and Covenant, or Covenanters, largely Lowland Presbyterians, many of whom would flee Scotland for Ulster (Northern Ireland) during persecutions by the British Crown. The Covenanters of 1638 and 1641 signed the documents that stated that Scotland desired the Presbyterian form of church government and would not accept the Church of England as its official state church.
Many Covenanters signed in their own blood and wore red pieces of cloth around their necks as distinctive insignia; hence the term Red neck, which became slang for a Scottish dissenter. One Scottish immigrant, interviewed by the author, remembered a Presbyterian minister, one Dr. Coulter, in Glasgow in the 1940's wearing a red clerical collar - is this symbolic of the rednecks? Since many Ulster-Scottish settlers in America (especially in the South) were Presbyterian, the term was applied to them, and then, later, their Southern descendants. One of the earliest examples of its use comes from 1830, when an author noted that red-neck was a name bestowed upon the Presbyterians. It makes one wonder if the originators of the ever-present redneck jokes are aware of the term's origins?

http://www.tartansauthority.com/glob...-and-rednecks/

[Tropicana]

...and while we are at it...

Origin Of "Redneck" ... A Term That Crosses Race & Geography

http://www.usaonrace.com/labels-stereotypes/origin-redneck-term-crosses-race-geography

Say the word “redneck” and you never know what reaction you’re going to get.

The word has a confusing role in our lexicon. The American Heritage Dictionary lists “redneck” as “a disparaging term for a member of the white rural laboring class, especially in the southern United States,” and secondly as, “a white person regarded as having a provincial, conservative, often bigoted attitude.”

Yet, many people proudly consider themselves rednecks, believing it signifies someone who is a straight-shooter–trustworthy people with old-time values, who view sophistication as pretentious snobbery.

“Redneck” first appeared in the 17th century, when Scottish Covenanters, or supporters of the National Covenant, signed documents stating that Scotland desired the Presbyterian form of church government and would not accept the Church of England as its official state church. Many signed in their own blood and wore red pieces of cloth around their necks as distinctive insignia, hence the term “red neck,” which became slang for a Scottish dissenter. Many of these people fled to Ulster (Northern Ireland).

Since many Ulster-Scottish settlers in America were Presbyterian, the term was applied to them and their Southern descendants. One of the earliest examples of its use comes from 1830, when Anne Royall, one of America’s first female journalists, noted that "red-neck" was a "name bestowed upon the Presbyterians."

Yet in The Southern Redneck: A Phenomenological Class Study, Julian Roebuck and Mark

[Tropicana]

Now all we need is for dahjah to stop by and fill us in on how there is no such thing as redneck and it is all a plot of the US Government and we're all set.

[lonewolf]

Now why does it not surprise me that you would come with some revisionist approach to history. Soon mi a go mix you up wid de one name RichD. I see you are both engaging about this. Perhaps Lonewolf will come by and set onoo straight.

Yep gots me a top 10 list..her ya go

1. You think "loading the dishwasher" means getting your wife drunk.
2. You ever cut your grass and found a car.
3. You own a home that is mobile and 5 cars that aren't.
4. You think the stock market has a fence around it.
5. Your stereo speakers used to belong to the Drive-in Theater.
6. Your boat has not left the drive-way in 15 years.
7. You own a homemade fur coat.
8. Chiggers are included on your list of top 5 hygiene concerns.
9. You burn your yard rather than mow it.
10. Your wife has ever said, "Come move this transmission so I can take a bath."

[Tropicana]

Excellent list Lonewolf. :biguup: