Adam C. Lipscomb wrote:
>Kristin wrote:
>> well they were still votes from the rich, rednecks, fundamentalists, and
>> economists like JDG.
>
>*snip*
>
>and
>
>> I don't like rednecks or fundies or (especially) so-called
>> rugged individualists who use freedom as an excuse to act rotten selfish
>> and DESTROY THE ENVIRONMENT. they are all convinced there won't BE any
>> future generations because the world is going to end soon anyway.
>> terrifying because they will take the rest of us with them.
>
>Hi, you haven't met me face to face, but I'm a redneck. I grew up in the
>South, my family is of Scots-Irish descent, my ancestors farmed for a
>living, my grandfather lived in the hills of Tennessee and didn't wear shoes
>7 months of the year, I listen to Bluegrass and Hank Williams, I *like* the
>taste of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, I own a "Cat: Diesel Power" hat, I call
>ladies "ma'am" and men "sir" (more like "suh" if it's too hot outside), and
>I resent your characterizations.
Eh, I have to say I'm with Adam on this one. I don't get qualified as a
redneck, since my parents were from Northern Virginia and I talk without
an accent *most* of the time (survival trait), but I know plenty. Some of
them are ignorant, and some of them are prejudiced, and a lot of them are
misinformed, but I've never known one to be guilty of anything worse than
loose talk, voting Republican, and hitting on me when I was wearing a
very tight shirt. (And that only happened because I forgot to let the
right folks know I was really a local girl....)
We had one massive and very, very ugly death at home a few years ago
where a black man was burned alive- by a New Yorker. Who came here
specifically because he thought the locals wouldn't "interfere". The
locals were, in fact, deeply shocked, and even some of the old
set-in-stone folks showed signs of changing their views right up to the
point that the New York Times showed up and did a big story on all the
ignorant hillbillies that got everybody's back up again.
And, uh, the only people I really know who admit to voting for Bush are
my grandparents, upper-middle class Yanks all the way. I'm ashamed of
them for it, but there it is. The people I know who are doing the *most*
damage to the environment are not poor, or redneck, or fundies, or even
rugged individualists; they're CEOs capable of believing their own
doublespeak and talking it even better. Blaming it on the poor and
uneducated is a cop-out, a massive misdirection, and a falsehood- just as
the encouragement given to the "rednecks" to believe that
environmentalists are stealing their jobs is, and believing this sort of
corporate/media inspired propaganda is well beneath you, Kristin.
Kat Feete
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