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I was born in the south, my ancestry wore confederate grey. Even my native ancestors fought for the confederacy, although after the battle of pea ridge, it was decided that the Cherokee were too damn mean. That said, the US would not have survived as 2 nations. Great Britain was on the verge of recognizing the confederacy and if that had happened the south would've probably become a british colony and that would've caused another war. I live in the middle of hillbilly hell, most of the people here hate me and I hate them and I wouldn't have it any other way. When a black man that served his country and saved my ass more than once gets ridiculed by some inbred trash, because he had the nerve to come visit me; I just want them dead; just like the confederacy that they love so much.

As far as flying the stars and bars; well, it's a free country. Know this though, that was the battle flag and it was legitimately defeated and honorably surrended. Here is a pic of the flag of the confederacy and it's right where it belongs; flying over dead men.


Even the south isn't the old south anymore, it's now just a myth of an old ugly fact.

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NASCAR, the only reason I know what it means is due to seeing "Cars" :)
In Europe it would probably be football-for ya americans soccer

Of course there are rednecktype people in europe as well. You can probably find them in a number of small, tiny and way far from civilisation little villages, ranting about the good old times.

I'm not sure about inbreeding, but the lack of overview these people sport is in a way just amazing.

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I'm sure the redneck mindset is everywhere. (Look at Al Quiada)

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That is more like brain washing isn't it?

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I don't have any trouble around here anymore. I have met the friggin public.


I'm not mean unless I have to be. What am I supposed to do about a welfare drawing, medicaid using, able bodied, useless scumbag; calling my guests dirty names? I spent a lot of time around Arabs and they have this thing about taking care of guests....a very serious thing.

Again, not my fault!;)


I've lived in Europe too. I don't think what they have would qualify as the typical hateful redneck. More like country-bumpkins.

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[Don't want to detrain the topic, feel free to reply via PM if you want to, but I love discussing the Civil War.

Sherman's march destroyed PROPERTY, not human lives. Very few civilians were targeted, far less (if any) were raped. Atlanta was, in reality, only about 30% destroyed, catastrophic damage to be sure, but hardly burned to the ground.

His troops conducted what is known as 'foraging,' a COMPLETELY LEGAL practice in which an army takes necessary supplies by nonlethal force, namely livestock and foodstuffs. However, his men were renown for their unwavering and borderline fanatical devotion to the Union cause and often took such 'necessities' as silver and pretty much anything else of value. However, very rarely were civilians killed, and those that were generally tried to fight the foragers.

To make a long discussion short, if Sherman was so bad, why did his principle opponent, General Joseph E. Johnston, weep at his funeral, saying that the world had lost a great man? If you want to discuss further, I'd be happy to under an independent topic of via PM.


Back to the topic at hand, I think it's interesting to note how similar people act all over the world, especially considering the jingoism that permeates many societies.

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Sure they have rednecks in Europe. In the 1930s and 1940s they called them the Nazis. Nowadays, you have all the various Neo-Nazi groups. We are not immune to it on our shores either: the Klan, the American Nazi party, the Minutemen.

Just driving a beat-up pickup or waving the confederate flag does not make you a redneck. "Redneck" is a state of mind: rabid racist, xenophobe, ultra-conservative. Just like European skinheads would ike to see gypsies hung or put in concentration camps, we have our nutcases who would like to see gays executed, Mexicans executed or put behind barbed wire etc. The Nazis took it one step further, in that they actually exterminated millions of people in Dachau, Auschwitz and other places, but rednecks, Nazis, Minutemen, skinheads etc all follow the same path.

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dude, two years old........

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Riiiiiise from your graaaaave!

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What about all the farmers living the countryside?