I consider most people from rural areas a redneck... such as myself! I live
in "the big city" now and get called redneck alot.. but I don't mind, it
sets me apart from the freaks from Nawlins' and the coon ass' around here
(My best bud is a coon ass).. I am proud to be from the sticks! I plan on
moving back when I retire so I can hunt the rest of my life away
:-p~
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Krawdaddy - New Orleans, La.
www.krawdaddy.net
ICQ# 2325710
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----- Original Message -----
From: <ABeerCan@aol.com>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: DML: Got my a** whipped... Bill
> 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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