Reply #82: I think they're still the same rednecks they were in the 70s.

[RainDog]

was too young then to get the sixties, but they're the "Proud to be an Okie From Muskogie" crowd... still...who didn't like those liberals. The counter was "proud to be a hippie from Moleno"

(oh, and in response to the 3 types above - the hippies were direct descendants of the beats, even tho Kerouac hated them. Ginsburg was part of it, the San Francisco writers were very influential, the interest in alternative forms of religion and drugs were extensions of the beats' exploration of zen buddhism and drugs etc in the 1950s. - and the beats were important for the gay rights movement.)

anyway, when I was growing up in that horrible chocolate brown shag rug and disco ball era, the rednecks were just as outspoken as others - they just spoke in support of the establishment. growing up in the south - in Nashville - meant being a witness to the musical version of it all. Rednecks were the conservatives.. that was the term for them, even tho those comedy guys have mainstreamed it (at the same time assimilating mainstream values rather than hate for hippies rhetoric.)