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November 22, 2007
Redneck is Relative
The psychological and cultural milieu that is "redneckdom" isn't only inhabited by teeth-missing, bass-fishing rural Southerners. There is a spectrum, on which pretty much everybody falls somewhere, even people whom the likes of David Byrne find to be comparatively more sleek and hip. Granted, Byrne and people to his (dare I say "left"?) barely tip the scale, but the point is that there is a continuum.
Thanksgiving is a day when extended families typically gather around a large meal, and is thus an excellent opportunity for us to size each other up in terms of our respective redneck-ness. Do you have cousins or in-laws* that make you feel less than sophisticated? Or are you the effete, snobbish relative that gets frowned upon (likely behind your back) by your more earthy kin?
Discuss.
(*Note: if your cousins are your in-laws, there's not much point raising these questions, is there?)
Humour | By joe lance | 11:57 AM