# You Might Be A Redneck?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-redneck/972479
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 29, 2022, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-redneck/972479 "2022-09-29T22:23:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2022, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-redneck/972479/41 "2022-09-30T17:51:21Z")
The second place I lived in Canada was in a kind of cul-de-sac/almost-gated development in which every house had a huge attached garage. I wouldn’t have called my next-door neighbors “rednecks,” but they sure lived like ones.\* So far as I know, they were on welfare full-time and never budged out of their garage. They spent **all** their time in it getting high with their friends and blasting their stereo set at 11. It didn’t matter how cold it got—that goddamned garage door was always open.
I felt sorry for their daughter, who was a sweet little kid about eight years old. I couldn’t believe the authorities hadn’t put her in a foster home a long time before.
\*“Bikers” would probably be more accurate, but I don’t recall ever seeing them with a motorcycle
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### Author:  [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2022, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-redneck/972479/42 "2022-09-30T18:34:55Z")
I agree. I posted since I personally found it amusing. To me, a mean spirit always makes comedy unacceptable. Not every controversial or obviously tongue-in-cheek comment is offensive, and some comics walk this difficult line well. Such as Foxworthy.
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### Author:  [@Tride](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tride)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2022, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-a-redneck/972479/43 "2022-09-30T21:13:12Z")
“Don’t drink and drive. Don’t drink and hunt! My uncle shot my cousin… Said he thought he was a deer. That’s what he gets for driving a brown car… with a white license plate… and a roof rack!”
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