# Rednecks outside of the USA?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rednecks-outside-of-the-usa/192772>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 3, 2003, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rednecks-outside-of-the-usa/192772 "2003-08-03T21:19:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rednecks-outside-of-the-usa/192772/41 "2003-08-06T11:42:22Z")

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In rural Oxfordshire, England, I once went to pick up a used car which I was buying for £30. To get it, I had to go to a village I’d never visited before, right out in the middle of nowhere. As I approached the village, I saw that it was dominated by a huge manor house; however, when I drove into the village I found that the manor house was falling over, and the houses around it were like something out of Deliverance’s Appalachia. Weird, in-bred looking people eyed me from porches surrounded by dilapidated barns and rusting farm machinery. It was really strange, and rather spooky in a sort of Wicker Man way.

A few years later I worked with some people from this place, and it turned out that many of them were in fact in-bred. Furthermore the “lord of the manor” had inherited the house, and though he was a land millionaire, he lived like a tramp, with wild hair and wilder eyes, riding round on a shagged-out moped with his dog on the fuel-tank and his trousers held up with string.

So yeah, they do exist in England, though I’m sure they wouldn’t identify themselves as rednecks.

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**Author:** ![jovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jovan)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rednecks-outside-of-the-usa/192772/42 "2003-08-06T12:12:48Z")

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Strangely enough, lower-class people who sport obscenely grotesque mullets and drive around on ridiculous choppers and listen to laughably bad rock are refered to as **yankees** in Japan.

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**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rednecks-outside-of-the-usa/192772/43 "2003-08-06T15:20:04Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Insecta \*  
> \*\*Many people in the south of England, particularly in London, regard Northerners as sub human.

Is this supposed to be funny?  
It seems about as witty as saying that all the Swiss are bankers who happily colluded with the Nazis in WW2 to steal Jewish bank accounts.

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> \*Originally posted by Insecta \*  
> A Northerner is anyone in between the Watford Gap service station on the M1 and the Scottish border.

Why stop at the border? It is all one country, you know.

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> \*Originally posted by Insecta \*  
> For reference, someone from Birmingham is a Brommy, someone from Liverpool is a Scouser and someone from Manchester is a Mancurian. These are not terms of endearment.

As AndrewT and Ruadh said, it’s ‘Mancunian’ and ‘Brummie’. I would call Scouser affectionate.

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> \*Originally posted by Insecta \*  
> If anything, a Northerner is the closest English equivalent of a Redneck, because to some extent, it also symbolizes a north south divide.

So you think a University professor from Manchester is a Redneck?

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> \*Originally posted by Insecta \*  
> Although I can’t speak so much from experience, Northerners often regard Southerners as snobbish. Cannot imagine why.

And your cite for this ‘attitude’ of about 20 million people is?  
Did you notice the Board motto?

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