You might be a redneck if…you create a dues-paying society and a scholarship fund?
And that's what a Virginia man did last week, launching the “American Redneck Society.”
“I really felt that American Rednecks are an under-served, but large population that could benefit from a formal membership organization structure,” said American Redneck Society Executive Director Rob Clayton.
A $20 membership fee will get you access to retail discounts across the country, and a portion of the funds are set aside for an educational fund for “rural youth.”
"What does it mean to be a Redneck?" the group’s website asks.
Well, with apologies to comedian Jeff Foxworthy, apparently, you might be a redneck if…
You’re a fan of Nascar.
You’re a gun owner.
You like country music.
You can fix just about anything with duct tape.
You think “duct” tape should actually be “duck” tape.
Yee-haw!
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/cap ... z18NgKreuX
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The term "redneck" reflects the N-word in many ways.
It can be a term of pride and endearment, or hostility and ridicule, depending on who says it and in what context.
For example, West Virginians can call each other rednecks all day. But if someone from Buffalo or Hartford says it, the mood in the room will suddenly change.
Unfortunately, like the N-word, the word's etymology is rooted in prejudice. Because of this, there is a part of me that is uncomfortable with the term being so flippantly used these days.
It's also a WV contribution to the English vocabulary, as it has roots in the coalfields.
It can be a term of pride and endearment, or hostility and ridicule, depending on who says it and in what context.
For example, West Virginians can call each other rednecks all day. But if someone from Buffalo or Hartford says it, the mood in the room will suddenly change.
Unfortunately, like the N-word, the word's etymology is rooted in prejudice. Because of this, there is a part of me that is uncomfortable with the term being so flippantly used these days.
It's also a WV contribution to the English vocabulary, as it has roots in the coalfields.
BTW, I joined the FB fanpage.The United Mine Workers of America (UMW) and rival miners' unions appropriated both the term redneck and its literal manifestation, the red bandana, in order to build multiracial unions of white, black, and immigrant miners in the strike-ridden coalfields of northern and central Appalachia between 1912 and 1936. The origin of redneck to mean "a union man" or "a striker" remain uncertain, but according to linguist David W. Maurer, the former definition of the word probably dates at least to the 1910s, if not earlier. The use of redneck to designate "a union member" was especially popular during the 1920s and 1930s in the coal-producing regions of southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and western Pennsylvania, where the word came to be specifically applied to a miner who belonged to a union.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck