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American Redneck Society Formed
Unaware that the National Tractor Pull Association exists and that the Waffle House already has a Facebook page, Rob Clayton has founded the American Redneck Society. “I really felt that American Rednecks are an under-served, but large population that could benefit from a formal membership organization structure,” says Clayton. The $20 membership fee gets you retail discounts across the country, and part of the fee goes toward an educational fund for “rural youth.”
Won't "educating rural youth" effectively reduce future redneck numbers?
I thought they were all home schooled?
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
What do you mean "underserved?" Are you kidding me?
From 2001-2009 we had a US Presidential administration that catered almost exclusively to this population. The "American Redneck" was empowered and emboldened in ways never before seen in US history.
The reason they hate Obama so much is that they get pretty comfy being treated for years as the most important group in the country.
Won't that educate them out oftheir own heritage? Who will pay the way for future red neck children?
Slowly waving my hand - "This is not the sig you are looking for."
I'm mildly amused.
First, because Mr. Clayton stepped up and named an organization Redneck "anything".
Next I am amused at the cartoon t.v.land stereotypes you guys attach to them. I guess it proves you like watching "Larry, the cable guy".
Hopefully you "Geeks" take your Mathematics and Science educations more seriously than your "less than public educational quality" information on actual rednecks.
In cities their analogues would be the blue collar guys. Some may have post high school education, but it tends to be degrees in agriculture, animal husbandry or business. The bulk of them favor community colleges and trade schools for things like Diesel mechanics, Welding, Autobody etc. These people still manage to fill their towns with Doctors, lawyers, grocers, bankers and other necessary entities from their own numbers. They are the ones trucking the crap to the store so you can buy it. They are the ones working graveyard shift on an oil well on a 15 degree January morning so you can drive your car.(And you thought your gas came from Saudi?) The same well could very easily end up producing the natural gas to heat your house. They are the ones growing your food and raising the meat you eat. Much much more.
Many do not pursue secondary education, some even drop out of high school, but then this is comparable to urban areas as well. The common comical mistake I've seen is "tourists" coming through the midwest with the attitude that because they are "rednecks" and the general discourse of spoken language is slower, with local dialects (southern drawls, Texas twang, hill billy, etc.), that they are perhaps simple or stupid and should be talked to slowly and like children. Well, guess who looks like a stereotype by this point.
There are poor rednecks who end up in a trailer as hired help on a farm, there are rich rednecks with a fleet of very expensive Semi-truck/trailers who end up as president of the local bank and live in luxurious digs.
They are just hardworking people like you find anywhere that social welfare programs are frowned on as a way of life.(yes, some even end up on welfare, just not with the unearthly numbers as city dwellers) They work hard, play hard( rodeos and monster trucks, sports) fix their own vehicles mostly( cinder blocks are a lot safer than jackstands) and know how to live poor well. Theirs is a quality of life that comes from the areas they live in. Generally in a small town, pop. 150 - 8000 with lots of farmland around. Lifes demands of this lifestyle are different than an urban dweller so it is natural that the societies springing from this would have different customs.
As usual, your enemy and mine, "The Media" is partially to blame for the disinformation you pass for knowledge. The rest of the blame is entirely yours for being dumb asses and accepting information that makes you look like tourists in your own country.
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