Its funny how much the conceptualization of 'redneck' is dependent on location.
Growing up in a city of 3 million- 'redneck' was used to mean ignorant, backward, bigoted, possibly inbred country bumpkins. The only 'rednecks' people saw were on TV, usually as fictional characters or some lopsided jerry springer-esque trash. Tho after a few new movies 'came out', the term sometimes summoned visions of gay cowboys prancing in a field of flowers.
After leaving the big city and moving to the edge of rural districts suddenly redneck means a damn hard worker thats proud of getting his hands dirty if it means getting the job done, is smart enough to build or grow what most would buy, and wants to protect his family and dignity.
Talk about a difference.
And now, being on the edge of rural and in an expanding city, I'm watching all these old redneck homesteader couples die off and have their cherished 5 and 10 acre homesteads being sold by unsympathetic citified kids to developers for the building of over sized houses on postage stamp lots- a very symbol of degenerate culture to many hard working rednecks.
Its been rather surprising to me, a former city kid, that as the years pass I'm slowly evolving more toward something between a funkadelic psychonaut college science junkie, a redneck, and a homesteader hippie to the point that now I want a 5 acre homestead just outside of town.
So welcome aboard Spear. Good to have more diversity