(September 26, 2016 at 5:02 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(September 26, 2016 at 4:51 pm)Mechaghostman2 Wrote: I don't know about Texas, but here in the mid-west, Michigan in particular, the hicks are all over the place. DO NOT MISTAKE REDNECK FOR A RURAL PERSON OR A SOUTHERNER. There is a difference. All I know is here in rural Michigan, you can't talk to 3 people without someone being incredibly racist and homophobic. Just a couple of years ago a gay guy in a bar got beat the shit out of so bad that the people next to him got blood splattered on them. THAT IS NORMAL REDNECK BEHAVIOR. Don't tell me not to hate these people. I have a very good reason to.
I guess you're using "redneck" in a different way, then? A redneck, to me, is a Southerner who ain't afraid of a little hard work.
Some are racist, some aren't. Some are educated, some aren't. Most are parochial, and very few are cosmopolitan -- Mooney and I are the exceptions, and not the rule, there. Believe it or not, even homophobic racists read stuff, too.
I'd never call a Michigander a redneck.I reckon the species only extends as far north as a line drawn from northern Kentucky to the bootheel of Missouri. Of course, I'm no expert. I'm just a redneck.
I'm using the word redneck, hick, whatever to describe white trash. Maybe that's where the confusion on this post is coming from.
Ok, maybe rednecks are more southern, where as hicks are more of a mid-western thing. The terms are fairly inter-changeable though.
