rednecks...

[Jonno06]

hm....

brans freestyle kicks arse.....

i dont make fun of anyone because of what race/nationality they are...

(the follwing races/nationalities are excused from the above claim)
asians,middle easterns,polish people,germans,africans,mexicans,americans,redneck s,yankees,haiwaiins,people who like chocolate,paintball players,irish,italians,french,people from south america,people in FL,new yorkers,and,,,,canadians




j.k

[Emagster]

i have to admit, when i play paintball with my chuch I wear a confederate flag on my leg. I dont do this to try and push rascism on anyone or anything like that. i do it to show that I'm proud of my part of America. I aint proud about why the civil war occured and think slavery is an awful idea and I hate rascism. I'm just proud of what I am

[FatMan]

All about rednecks!

Well, as with many things, the term "redneck" doesn't mean exactly what it used to mean. It used to mean you worked for a living doing physical work outdoors (and thus typically had a sunburned neck). Today, it typically means you are uneducated, ignorant, uncultured, and often bigotted. Of course, even THAT is changing these days, as it is becomming fashionable to be "redneck" and thus it is starting to mean outdoorsy and you drive a pickup truck.

Another major point, you don't have to live in the south to be a redneck - in fact I've met plenty of rednecks in NJ, JY, PA and other parts of the country. Also, not all folks born in the South are rednecks, and you don't have to be a redneck to love the South and Southern heritage.

The Navy Jack of the confederacy was first used to represent racism by the KKK in the 40's, 50's and 60's. Since then most people think of it as a symbol of racism. There are several other flags that were flown by the Confederacy, and in fact, the Naval Jack was never an official flag of the Confederacy. It would make more sense if people who are all about Southern heritage would fly the Stars and Bars or other official flag used by the confederacy. I think the one used over Robert E. Lee's headquarters is one of the coolest ones (shown below).

Not everyone who flies the Naval Jack (or Battle Flag as it is also called) is racist, but certainly there are quite a few folks who fly it and are, and some of them fly it BECAUSE they are. On the other hand, you don't have to fly it to be racist. Some of the most racist people I've met never set foot in the south, but grew up in large cities in the Northeast.

So in the end, it is all just soup. There are folks all over the country who work in offices and drive pickups and fly the Confederate battle flag because that's what rednecks do, even though they aren't really rednecks, and they aren't racist either, they just think its cool. An there are people all over the place who don't drive pickups, don't fly the flag, but they're racist, and ignorant and they're rednecks. Then there's a whole bunch of us who are just people. We don't have a name, I don't think.

FatMan