First experience with a redneck

[Alhamdulillah 0]

Ok, so I'll post my husband's first experience with a redneck since he doesn't post (don't know why he has his own ID if he's not going to post )

Anyway!

Before I begin I should mention that I live in a pretty progressive city in the south and this is NOT the norm here as we're very integrated, have a HUGE immigrant population and very little hate crime...

So.... He's been driving my car since he got here and I have two bumper stickers on it. They're pretty old and I haven't really thought much about them until the other day when my husband picked me up from work and told me that some man pulled up beside him at a traffic light and started yelling "F*** America huh? F*** America?! F*** you!! Go back to where-ever you came from if you hate America so much!" Apparently this guy was wearing army clothing and it took me a minute to think when my husband told me about it. All I can say is I hope this man isn't really in the army because the two bumper stickers on my car say "Support Space Exploration, Send Bush to Mars" and Bush is dressed up like a cowboy and riding on a rocket ship like it's a bull and the other says "Defend America, Defeat Bush" I'm not sure where this illiterate bumpkin got "F*** America" from but it's either really funny or (if he's in the army) really scary that he can't read on a very basic level.

So much for southern hospitality... Thank God he has had a much better reception from everyone else he's met so far. He has a very friendly and outgoing personality and everyone who meets him instantly falls in love with him.

[archie07 0]

It's kind of warm still in the south for the rednecks to be wearing camouflage clothing, at least I haven't seen any. The guy may have been military.

[*JG* 2]

Well, while I'm not at all happy with our president, I don't go around yelling at anyone for expressing their opinion. In that, I find this story to be kind of sad.

You never know what gets people in that kind of a mood. I hope he doesn't face that kind of situation ever again.

[archie07 0]

Well, while I'm not at all happy with our president, I don't go around yelling at anyone for expressing their opinion. In that, I find this story to be kind of sad.

You never know what gets people in that kind of a mood. I hope he doesn't face that kind of situation ever again.

Yeah, I agree, unfortunately we have some crazy people out there. Sorry he had to be subjected to that regardless of who the person was.

[Alhamdulillah 0]

Well, while I'm not at all happy with our president, I don't go around yelling at anyone for expressing their opinion. In that, I find this story to be kind of sad.

Exactly! That's one thing that made me think he wasn't really military because most of the people who I've known in the army (you know those who joined because they want to protect the freedoms we have here and not those who joined because they like to shoot guns ) value a person's freedom of expression. That, and they can read.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Sounds like he's just a loose cannon with a big chip on his shoulder. Unfortunately, there's been a firestorm of that kind of rhetoric being spewed out from talk radio and I think the hatred and intolerance towards dissent and foreigners in general builds up in people who already feel uneasy about the state of affairs our world is in.

[JODO 2]

The man sounds like an idiot and it is good your husband ignored him.

[peejay 327]

It's kind of warm still in the south for the rednecks to be wearing camouflage clothing, at least I haven't seen any. The guy may have been military.

The thing to remember about "progressive cities in the South" is that a big portion of their population comes from somewhere else. So that "redneck" could easily be a "good ol' boy" from New York, Minnesota, or anywhere.

[jundp 191]

Unfortunately, he could really have been southern

I remember in college sitting completely dumbfounded in class while 4 students insisted that the Holocaust was a product of liberal propaganda and not real at all. I would say that my college town was a pretty progressive Southern area, but these students were all locals.

It takes all kinds, I guess....

[peejay 327]

Unfortunately, he could really have been southern

I remember in college sitting completely dumbfounded in class while 4 students insisted that the Holocaust was a product of liberal propaganda and not real at all. I would say that my college town was a pretty progressive Southern area, but these students were all locals.

It takes all kinds, I guess....

So what are you saying? It's genetic? Or maybe something in the water? Or maybe everyone from the South is the same?

I don't buy this South bashing or preconceived stereotypes. 2007 Germany is a much different place than 1938 Germany....isn't it? Or maybe not?

[amiquechu 0]

I lean very strongly to one side of the political spectrum but purposely don't put bumper stickers on my car, and I try to avoid political discussions at all costs, because there are people out there who like to get worked up and cuss and get in fighting mode over politics. I used to enjoy the banter, but after several times of it breaking out into heated arguments, other people crying, and a near-fight being the final straw, I decided to keep my thoughts to myself. I'll let my vote do the talking. I guess it's just my extremely laid-back personality. Me personally, if I lived in the South, I wouldn't be caught dead with liberal bumper stickers on my car...likewise, if I lived in San Francisco or New York, I wouldn't be caught dead with conservative bumper stickers. I figure there's people out there whose blood boils when they see somebody mocking their political party and ideals - people who wouldn't hesitate to vandalize your car over a bumper sticker. Yes, I agree with freedom of speech, but I also take into account the "locos" out there who will make you "pay" for expressing your speech. To me, it's not worth the risk. I'm not saying funny political bumper stickers are bad, just not my style.

[Alhamdulillah 0]

I've had those bumper stickers on my car for several years and this is the first time anyone has ever said anything about them. I think the one with Bush on a rocket ship to Mars is hysterical and the other is my opinion, which I am free to have. I have seen some very hateful bumper stickers on other cars that are insulting and rude and I haven't once felt the need to pull up beside that person and tell them that they shouldn't put that on their car in this "free" country we live in.

The part about this story that I found amusing was that neither one of the bumper stickers on my car says anything bad about America so this guy was obviously an illiterate moron AND I think it's funny when people who claim to love America and the freedoms it stands for are quick to deny those same freedoms they claim to love to others just because that freedom entitles them to have an opinion that doesn't agree with theirs.

BTW, I am southern born and bred, from a very small town originally and this post was not intended to make fun of southerners....

[~*Maria*~ 1]

When i moved to the States 11 months ago, my hubby and I lived in the mountains in NC, we were surrounded by "rednecks" and we did not have any problems with them, in fact they were so friendly, that once you got to know them, if their door was open, you could actually walk into their home while they were sitting down to supper...... they would tell you to sit down as well and they would get you a plate so you could eat supper with them.

Most of these mountain folks have never been off the mountain, and one time a few of them went down the mountain heading toward 'Charlotte' they almost crapped themselves, at how big the city was, they actually got lost!

One Saturday night hubby and I got invited to their 'weekly' lawnmower race..... it was sooo funny seeing all these mountain folks get together to race their lawnmowers..... a few fights did break out at the end of the night because one particular family's lawnmower side-swiped another's!! You would actually think these guys were trying out for nascar ....... their antics was just so crazy, its not like they were racing for top prizes or anything LMAO...... it was just $10.00 to the winning driver of each race

I didn't think grown men acted like that

[britty 1]

Unfortunately, he could really have been southern

I remember in college sitting completely dumbfounded in class while 4 students insisted that the Holocaust was a product of liberal propaganda and not real at all. I would say that my college town was a pretty progressive Southern area, but these students were all locals.

It takes all kinds, I guess....

what are these kids being taught as they grow up? Its so scary that at college age they believe the Holocaust didn't happen.

[peejay 327]

Unfortunately, he could really have been southern

I remember in college sitting completely dumbfounded in class while 4 students insisted that the Holocaust was a product of liberal propaganda and not real at all. I would say that my college town was a pretty progressive Southern area, but these students were all locals.

It takes all kinds, I guess....

what are these kids being taught as they grow up? Its so scary that at college age they believe the Holocaust didn't happen.

This is hardly confined to the American South or conceived there. Just because these 4 young idiots are ignorant dupes shouldn't reflect on the South at large. I can assure you that Holocaust denying propoganda is not taught in Southern public schools or anywhere else in America.

There are Holocaust deniers in Europe, the Middle East, and elsewhere in the world with a wide array of agendas.

It has been 62 years since the end of WW2, but there is no denying the Holocaust happened. Allied troops liberated the camps and there is ample evidence of the Holocaust. The deniers refuse to see the truth for their own weird agendas or out of misguided ignorance of the truth.