I wouldn’t go down this route, painting all rednecks as Maga supporters is not fair to them or conducive to a good outcome.
Just carrying on the long long history of punishing the workers who dared take up arms to defend themselves a century ago.
Unlikely to change any time soon. That punishment has included the above derision, plastered all over all forms of media for decades. As well as generational economic punishment. GovCo shat on Appalachia from such a height they’ve never yet recovered and likely never will. Look at the response to the devastation from that hurricane.
Only people on this continent that got a worse hand are the indigenous and black folks in southern states.
And there are plenty of MAGA dipshits who aren’t rednecks. If you watched the Mummers parade today, you saw a bunch of Delco bigots who wouldn’t know a tractor from a turnip truck. But those guys sure looked pretty in their dresses.
This is a big point. I briefly took a job in Northern California two years ago and met more openly-racist bigots and transphobes than I ever met in my Appalachian hometown
I’ve made comments about how Mississippians are not what they’re made out to be. Not a welcome comment around here.
There’s an important distinction to be made between rednecks and hillbillies. The south would like you toe believe that anything non-urban is redneck, this is not so.
Hillbillies are generally a specific type of non urban. Here in Appalachia we refer to them as off the mountain. You don’t just run into hillbillies. You have to go where they go.
The rest of us are rednecks. I don’t think redneck is “everyone south and rural” but it’s pretty close.
Exactly, and a lot of the people who were at Jan 6 were from upper middle class suburban white america who flew in to DC taking time off from their cushy jobs to larp as revolutionaries.
So redneck agenda is different from MAGA agenda? Do tell.
Wtf is “redneck agenda,” the farmers almanac?
This slayed me. I’m going to start referring to my farmers almanac as my redneck agenda.
Never thought about it. In hindsight “not part of a maga agenda” makes for much better lyrics.
Redneck here. Fuck Trump and fuck you for thinking I support him.
Hope this helps.
That’s right jackass. Keep that bullshit going. Just like you were conditioned to.
Do not under any circumstances google, The Battle of Blair Mountain. That’s where the term comes from. Asshole. And it doesn’t mean what Hollywood has taught you it means.
When I was dating, I laughingly told a girl I was “kinda redneck”.
“Uh, exactly how redneck?”
“I loathe Trump and don’t start me on January 6th. If that’s what you’re asking.”
“Whew. Just checking.”
Rednecks are historically left. Big on unions.
Historically Republicans were instrumental in abolishing slavery. Today’s version wants it back.
Mmmm political left and right don’t align strictly on a union-supporting axis. Even left and right don’t really mean much anymore, because the Conservative party isn’t anchored to a specific set of ideologies the was Progressives are. A conservative will support a union when the union helps rhe conservative, will oppose the union when the union hurts the conservative, and will demonize the union when it helps them get elected by lathering up their base of voters.
Progressives support labor rights, equitable pay, and regulations that protect the safety and liberty of the worker. Progressives will support those ideals even when it does not help them directly.
Many people associate Communists and Socialists with the “left” and Libertarians and Free Market Capitalists with the “right”. But there are conservative communists and progressive capitalists.
Pictured:
- /r/liberalgunowners patch
- Ukraine patch
- Imperial Storm Trooper AR-15 (OK, you kinda got me on that one.)
- wife’s Christmas present (hot pink Bersa Thunder .380)
- Pilipino flag
- 20-yo hat, bought before assholes took over the flag
- 20-round mag, kinda prefer the 10s, standard 30s are a bit much for reasons
Not pictured:
- Ukrainian flag
- Dark-skin, green card-carrying wife. Not a US citizen, doesn’t care much, maybe someday.
OK, the crushed Keystone cans scream redneck, but not MAGA.
To top it off, that’s in Florida, where it’s perfectly OK to paint us with a fat “conservative asshole who deserves whatever happens to them” brush.
And 01/06 gave me fucking PTSD thank you very fucking much. And I don’t say that lightly.
(Glad I took a minute on this post! Found some cool new patches.)
Cody Barlow ain’t no bigot
This isn’t helping, and it isn’t true.
I’ve been described by people as redneck, but I’m not remotely MAGA
…and therefore I support Green Day dunking on MAGA instead of me XD
I live in Oklahoma, drive an Old Green Truck™, have a lazy dog of unknown breed, and I work in a machine shop. Last week my neighbor and I rebuilt a motorcycle engine and put it in his bike. My wife and I have chickens. I’m a pretty sterotypical “redneck”.
I’ve voted democrat in every election since 2000.
It sounds like OP is terribly confused, and is associating people from two different groups while they really have nothing in common, which is something MAGA dipshits also do.
Fuck off no they ain’t.
