Yes! That is the true Redneck!
Richard in San Antonio
On Thu, 3 May 2001 12:31:27 EDT ABeerCan@aol.com writes:
> In a message dated 5/3/01 8:42:36 AM Central Daylight Time,
> ccs138@psu.edu
> writes:
>
> << OK, you got me, what's the real definition of a redneck? (Just
> curious)
>
> -Chris >>
>
> Chris,
> A "redneck" is the old slang term for an American farmer. Since
> they spent
> most of the day hunched over in the sun working the soil and raising
> crops in
> the sun, their necks got sunburned and turned red. These people
> typically
> were not the wealthiest of people, and they usually couldn't afford
> to own
> the best of stuff. Wealthy people that owned plantations and could
> afford
> not to work out in the sun deemed these "lower class" people as
> "rednecks".
> If you ask me, coming from a redneck family myself, these people
> were not
> lower class. They were simply hard working people who tried keep
> America fed
> with their own two hands. If it wasn't for the "rednecks" people
> wouldn't
> have had clothes on their backs (cotton), they wouldn't have had
> food on
> their table (corn, beans, etc...) and America wouldn't have had a
> group of
> hard working honest people who took pride in what they had, not what
> was
> given to them. Redneck born and Redneck bred, so when I die I will
> be
> Redneck dead!
>
> The other Will
>
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