Redneck chic?

[S Roper]

I went to High School in a district that was part rural and part suburban near Cleveland. We used the term redneck to describe the kids who drove pickups, owned a CB radio, and often read racist literature. It seemed that their primary source of entertainment before school was using bleach to assist in peeling out in the parking lot. Some used rebel flag motiffs. I had a friend who worked with one; my friend was asked one time if he thought the South would rise again. Anyway, rightly or wrongly, this is the group that was thought of as rednecks.

 

[SapperLeader]

I grew up in Southern Indiana. I hung out with the rednecks and the runners in high school. The rednecks were the truck driving, gun owning (or at least parents owned guns) CB using good old boys. Oh yeah, they wore hiking or cowboy boots to school. A redneck was also someone who worked outside and had a redneck. We also had white trash that lived in the trailer park (not saying all trailer parks are white trash, just that white trash are often found in trailers. I think like all names that describe something, redneck and hillbilly can have both positive and negative connotations. Sometimes calling someone redneck can mean my previous description. Other times they may call someone a redneck and mean white trash and you and everybody else realizes it. I think it depends entirely on the persons tone of voice and intent.

 

[Kim]

BLEACH!!!!!!! That brings back memories of my teenage years when the muscle cars were all the go. Yea we poured bleach on the highway and "burned rubber" . Right out on the straight stratch in front of my home. I even asked my Mom for the bleach. My boyfriend had a beasutiful sky blue Roadrunner. Man I miss that car -----not the boyfriend. Let's just say all the squiggly black rubber burns on the highway are a type of "rural grafitti". I can actually read the meaning in it.

 

[joab]

not saying all trailer parks are white trash, just that white trash are often found in trailers.

Now you're getting into Trailer Trash about one rung under White trash and one above Poor White Trash.
Of course tailer parks are full of Poor White Trash that hit the White Trash Lottery ( injury settlement, usually something to do with the back or knee) and moved to the park. There is also alot of White Trash that get off welfare but stay in the trailer park so as not to put on airs.

Before anybody gets mad and corrects me.
I lived in a trailer for 2 years and now live in a Hillbilly Hicktown with the Rednecks and the Good Ole Boys