Reply #135: I'll agree with you there...

[Heyo]

I live in the south.... Growing up around my family, I spent alot of time and was raised around alot of people some people may want to call so called rednecks or hicks whatever. I still see alot of people like that to this day when I go visit my dad. I could almost even say I am one, minus the accent and where I live. I can speak for the ones I know that they are truly not deserving of all the jokes, etc.. and the idea that it's okay to marginalize and stereotype them.

There are different traits I noticed when spending time with them other than what you often hear about. These are people who you could call at 3 o'clock in the morning with a crisis and they'd be right there. People who would stop for a total stranger if they saw you broke down on the road, drive you to an auto-parts store 50 miles away and back and help you fix your car to make sure you are ok. People who would give you anything in the world they could if you needed it. And yeah, their overzealous church thing is annoying. And yeah they do preach about God a lot and that gets annoying. I'm a Christian too, but yeah, it's a little cheesy with them. The churches also get together and cook meals for dozens of migrant workers (alot of those where my folks live) and bring them out to the job site. Gather cans and all kinds of stuff for people who need it, raise tons of money for hurricaine Andrew victims, the list goes on. (Andrew hit close to here) Alot of them like NASCAR, but aren't as into it as I am. (I collect NASCAR die-cast cars, too I can only afford the cheap ones though)

I don't see their being really religious as any type of danger, I see it as maybe corny and a little annoying if they get preachy... but not the types to try and impress their views on other people. Aside from the occasionaly overzealous official with a fundy religious view who almost always gets shot down, I don't see this big supposed attempt to force Christianity on people. I see it in a few cases, but when I do the courts seem to rule against the Christian side.

You can pick a bad sub group out of any group. Everyone takes shots at the 'beer swilling trailer trash', but what if we made jokes about black people being criminals, arabs being terrorists? Nobody in their right mind would do that.

That's my rant for now. Bottom line is the rednecks are all good as far as I'm concerned.

Heyo

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