If you fly a rebel flag in your yard you are a redneck!!!

 

Come to my house and make a decision for yourself.

 

I will mostly agree with this statement. Although most of my inner city friends call me a redneck, I have to correct them and tell them that I'm a "desert rat".

 

Vermin?

Hey! Who said that?

I'm just confused about this whole issue. I'm Canadian, so I cannot be considered a Yankee. I live in a house with a peaked roof and a foundation made of concrete, not rubber. I own four vehicles (including a pickup) and only two are currently roadworthy (sometimes only one). They are all on my driveway, although I have occasionally parked on my front lawn. I have swapped the engine on every car I have ever owned except two (give them time...). Once it was in February/March in my driveway.

I am white collar (engineer), but much prefer to hang out with blue collar people. I don't hunt or fish, but I appreciate truck & tractor pulls, lawnmower races and smash-up derbies. I get a kick out of combine races, too. I have forgotten what is stored under the tarp on the flatbed on the back of my "project" pickup. My electric stove was a roadside treasure (it is better than the one we had before).

I enjoy felling trees and I think wood chippers have great entertainment value. My lawnmower is older than I am and I would not trade it for anything. I inherited a chainsaw from my grandpa. I don't use duck tape for anything - I can't stand the stuff.

I have never used tobacco products (I smoked a few cigarettes as a teen and a couple of cigars on special occasions), nor drank moonshine. I don't care for Jack Daniel's. I have never eaten catfish, crawdads or 'possum. I had a couple of bucket seats (project truck parts) in my bedroom before I got married, but they were not used as furniture.

I have done the following roadside repairs while ON VACATION: rebuilt an alternator, oil change, fan belt (three times in 5 days), power steering pump bracket, spark plugs (oil fouling problem), cleaned a burned contact in a shorted-pole starter, exhaust crossover pipe (big chuckhole), fuel pump, tire plugging.

I drove a borrowed 22 year old RV 3000 miles on vacation earlier this year. I desperately wanted to stick a hula doll on the dashboard, but I couldn't find one anywhere.

Help me out here. Do I qualify as a redneck?

Cheers,
Eric

 

i think you could can them a cross dresser, the flag at my house is yeller with a rattler on it "don't thread on me" guess it comes from living in the sticks

 

Quote:"Just to help out your history.....Ohio was a Union state....."

Peppy, officially it was Union, but you can draw a line from Youngstown thru about Dayton and south of that line is North Kentucky or North WVA.

 

just seemed funny to me that the locals all said columbus was reb and worthington was yank. really dos not matter to me american we all are and g-- bless the USA and ford trucks

 

Most non-USA residents refer to all Americans as Yankees and consider Jeff Foxworthy's opinion of redneck to be the division line not the Mason Dixon Line.

That division line was Yankee and Rebel and I've known my share of both that were red necks and non red necks .

Lots up here in the land of real beer as well . Geography has nothing to do with it .

 

Makes two of us eh? You Hoser

 

Redneck all the way

 

Yankee by birth, Redneck by choice.

 

I was wondering, when I work outside in the winter time and the sun isn't so hard on the back of my neck all day, I lose the reddish coloration...am I still a redneck in the winter? Is it just a seasonal thing? Of course, my attitudes and prejudices are still all the same, no matter what the season or physical color of my neck! -TD

 

Given those 2 choices, I would be a redneck. Yankees are people who live south of the 49th parallel, to the Mexican border, and don't own a 2 dollar coin.

 

I think the term Yankee means someone from the New England region. When we were at war with England the red coats refered to us Yankee's.

 

"There are ways to tell if you are one, and I are one..."
In spite of my various places of residence, I am a Northern Redneck. It really is a state of mind, not a specific location.

I read once that a Yankee was someone who stepped out of the shower to pee...