Your Defination of a Red Neck and of Hillbilly

KopiKat

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hillbilly's are county folk. Normally of poorer social class. Often very poor. Most often associated with very hilly geography. Pretty simple. Used to describe a particular what that lives a particular where. Hillbilly's are generally pleasant among other hillbilly's.

Rednecks. Used to describe behavior. These people can live any damn where. Among the hillbilly's even. In the rural most country. In the cities and large towns. Normally included among the working class and can be educated and highly skilled. Rednecks often know a thing or two about jails, fighting, alcohol and alcoholism, guns, hunting and fishing, tobacco products, trucks that look like **** but run good, country music, loud rock music, family disputes, visits from social workers, etc. They like women and hate things that liberals promote and protect except for organized labor, public schools and fixing pot holes prior to local elections. Rednecks with proper amounts of alcohol can become very violent against other rednecks.
 
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http://redneck_rastafarian.tripod.com/redras.html

Parts of this are very true. Not the religious but the cultural.
 

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Nah not really just saying there are dumbasses everywhere they just go by different labels. Whats the difference in a white guy that lives in a ****** mobile home, gets a government check, has a bunch of kids running around, broke down cars in the front yard, obese wife, 500 dollar truck with 2k lift kit...and a black guy that lives in Govt housing, gets a govt check, bunch of kids running around, 500 dollar car with 2k rims, obese baby momma and thousands of dollars of gold in his mouth? One is a redneck and the other is "ghettofabulous" but really arent they both the same on principals by which they live?
It's interesting you post that because I have been talking for many years about the similarities between starkly poor rural folks and inner city urban ghettos. It makes a very strong case for economic opportunity being much more of a determining factor in how folks will behave rather that along purely racial lines.
 
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It's interesting you post that because I have been talking for many years about the similarities between starkly poor rural folks and inner city urban ghettos. It makes a very strong case for economic opportunity being much more of a determining factor in how folks will behave rather that along purely racial lines.

Since you've been talking about that for years why not talk about that in a little detail here? I would be interested in reading what you have to write. The post you replied to was also interesting. One clear difference in that post being that one group included a wife (commitment) while the other group included something much different while indicating no actual dwelling connection (little or no commitment). I would like to read in your response an indication that when equal, prosperous, economic opportunities are provided to these two groups that they will "behave" similarly as applied to the commitments I've described, where the children will benefit from parents who commit to one another. Please do not take my comments / curiosity as racist. Rather, take them as an indication that I suspect you are professionally qualified or otherwise experienced to provide input on these subjects. Are you a retired social worker?