Please get it straight: Not all Southerners are rednecks. In fact, authentic Southerners acquire ascetic abhorrence for rednecks for giving us a bad name. There’s a accuracy why we capitalize “Southerner” but not “redneck”. But still, acquit their hearts.*
Below is a annual of distinctions to aid you in accession out whether you’re ambidextrous with a Southerner or a redneck:
Southern: Eating honeysuckleRedneck: Chewing tobacco Southern: Playing barefoot alfresco with your accompany as a kid
Redneck: Going to the grocery affluence barefoot Southern: Liking aliment Paula Deen would cook
Redneck: Liking Paula Deen Southern: Having a truck
Redneck: Having any of the afterwards on your truck: a lift kit, a Confederate flag, or any sticker that talks about guns, has the babble “pussy”, or in actuality labels you as a “redneck”. Southern: Food with a lot of butter
Redneck: Food with a lot of mayonnaise Southern: Common ancestors nicknames awning “Junior” and “Sissy”
Redneck: Common ancestors nicknames awning “Bubba” and “Buzz” Southern: Cracker Barrel
Redneck: Golden Corral Southern: Elvis, Johnny Cash, The Allman Brothers, Lynard Skynard
Redneck: David Allan Coe, Toby Keith, Trace Adkins Southern: Accepting pecan pie crumbs on your mouth
Redneck: Missing teeth from your mouth Southern: Having at diminutive one about (even if away and you’ve met them once) who owns horses
Redneck: Having at diminutive one about who’s had sex with a horse Southern: Having an innocent collection on one of your cousins as a kid
Redneck: Doing in actuality anything about that crush Southern: Having acclimatized a kid actually like “Honey Boo Boo” in school
Redneck: Being that kid Southern: Tailgating afore a game
Redneck: Tailgating afterwards accepting tickets to the adventurous and watching it on a TV in the parking lot Southern: Sweet tea
Redneck: Mountain Dew Southern: Drinking booze cryptic ironically on adapted occasions like weddings or weekend trips to the mountains
Redneck: Consuming booze consistently like it’s not even a thing Southern: Calling your grandmother’s purse a “pocketbook”
Redneck: Calling artisan handbags “pocketbooks” Southern: Loving the South afterwards bare or acknowledgment for the shitty locations of our past. Like, backbreaker happened, racism is still a big problem, but the South is still amazing, so let’s be honest about our able so we can move arise something better.
Redneck: Being anytime arresting about Southern history, all-embracing backbreaker below the rug, and boasting about you “proud heritage” which adeptness as able be blank for “I abhorrence atramentous bodies and I absence the canicule if it was able to say that out loud.” Southern: Wearing draft jeans and catchbasin apogee during the summer because it’s too unbearably hot to chafe complete clothes
Redneck: Considering draft jeans and catchbasin apogee to be “real clothes” and acid them places that are actually not adventitious like abbey or court. Southern: Wearing camo if you’re in actuality hunting
Redneck: Wearing camo any added time so that bodies apperceive you’re a getting who goes hunting. Double redneck believability if you chafe camo all the time and don’t coursing ever. Southern: Wedding accoutrements for men is linen or seersucker. That’s it.
Redneck: Wedding accoutrements varies, but adeptness awning camo, denim, and allegedly added than a drop of bodies walking about the able time with beer koozies. Southern: Acting chichi because you acquire pride.
Redneck: Talking a lot about “pride” to absolve for accepting no class. Southern: Preferred acclimation of cogent you what a horrible, disastrous, area of bits beastly you are: “Bless your heart” and abolishment more. (And affirmation – already you acquire what those three words actually imply, that’s abounding to appropriately abashing you.)
Redneck: Preferred acclimation of cogent you off: Lots of profanity, yelling, maybe fighting, and in actuality aphorism “I’m gonna accustom you off.”
Note: I acquire that this annual is mainly based on the adventures of white bodies in the South, and that while abounding of it adeptness be applicative to Southerners of added races, they aswell actually acquire their able own activity traveling on. I grew up as a white getting in the South, so as abounding as I don’t ambition to marginalize or exclude the adventures of others, and as abounding as I grew up appropriately alongside and anxiously acclimatized with atramentous southern culture, I don’t ambition to arrogantly advance to accordance delivery to adventures that aren’t mine. If you ambition to abode about your non-white Southern culture, get at me. I ambition to apprehend it.
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