When did it become alright to be a hick?

[Matt]

Seriously? Our country have an entire counter-culture of people wearing camoflauge in cities. This counter-culture has a mentality that it is a bad thing to be intellectual and good to be stupid. People from the north are talking with heavy southern accents. I know people in the south. I know not all southerners are pieces of white trash, so what I am asking is, how did this subculture become so prevelant?

 

[X-Chick]

I dunno, but I wish we could exterminate them.

 

[Mee]

I'm surrounded by them, being in Georgia, some of them are still pretty cool/nice people though. Same with any group or trend of people.

 

[DarthRekal]

i blame Mellencamp!



This is OOOOOOUR Country!

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Hicks can't survive in Seattle. Neither can children. It rocks.

 

[huskerwebhead]

Git'er Done!!!!!

 

[Kebab gud]

Hicks can't survive in Seattle. Neither can children. It rocks.

neither can a relationship between 2 superheroes :P

anyway...

 

[amazingfantasy15]

I blame Comedy Central for constantly playing the Blue Collar Comedy tour all the time.

 

[JStorm]

Try living in the South.

As soon as I am finished with school, I am moving far, far away from the Southeast.

 

[sinewave]

i've seen people with "redneck" stickers covering the rear windows of their pickups here in omaha. why???

 

[ShadowBoxing]

I saw this lady in Walmart the other day, so fat I couldn't get down the ailes with her on it. I had to go around the other way to grab the toothpaste I came to buy. Which is ironic, since I didn't need the extra exercise.

But I have to admit, I envy this type of person in a way. I care about my life a lot, therefore the thought of messing up bugs me to no end. But these people don't. at all. Or so it seems. I mean to go through life and not care about the fact that your wasting your one life, there is just something odd about that.

 

[terry78]

I think because the backlash has taken effect. It's been known that they've been the object of ridicule for years, so they decide to embrace it. I'm cool with it, so long as you ain't trying to lynch me later.

 

[huskerwebhead]

i've seen people with "redneck" stickers covering the rear windows of their pickups here in omaha. why???

Holy Crap!!! You're in Omaha??? Someone else form Omaha actually posts on here??

 

[jaguarr]

Fire is the only thing that will kill them. It's true.

jag

 

[SuGarRush]

I see the hick subculture to be no different than the "thug" subculture so prevalent in the black community today.
The glorification of ignorance, the odd clothing, the distinctive speech patterns. The insistence to carry firearms (although a 12 gauge and a "gack" are slightly different )

All in all, I find that every people group I'm sure has some part of it that enjoys being laissez faire about life, and just wants to be able to embrace ignorance.


That being said, I'm from Georgia, my parents are from Georgia, half my family is from Alabama, and I plan on never living above the Mason-Dixon line. There is a distinct difference between "hick" and "Southerner"
My girlfriend has the sweetest southern accent you've ever heard, but she doesn't sound like a redneck.
I'm afraid the prevalence of Larry the Cable Guy (who I can't stand) has brought about a homogenization of the subcultures of the South, and spread this blight across the country.
I appreciate regional differences, quite strongly in fact, and in light of that, I want to let it be known that their is a difference between "Southerner" and "hick" as much as "Yankee" and "Northener"
or "Mets fan" and "Yankees fan"
They come from the same region and have similarities to the outside eye, but we find it insulting when you lump us together.

 

[terry78]

The media tends to use the extreme when it comes to white southerners, as it does with black inner city...they're all extreme redneck hicks or thugged out gangstas respectively. I used to work with a guy from Alabama when I was at the NBC Tower, and he was one of the more intellectual dudes up there, but he would say as soon as people heard that southern accent they'd dismiss him sometimes. Or so he assumed.

 

[SuGarRush]

I agree with Terry.
I know some BRILLIANT people, but as soon they open their mouths, they are automatically dismissed, simply because of their accent.
It's like he said, a small subset of the group is responsible for the image the whole group carries...



I mean honestly, how many Black guys have you met who actually carry their 9 with them to class? Or carry on drug deals or ride with ho's or whatever around where you live? Not too many, and I'm from Atlanta. The majority of African-Americans I know are intelligent people, no different than the rest of us. Yet the media promulgates a culture of ignorance and a false image which many people believe to be true. It's the same thing with those of us in the South.

 

[redmarvel]

I was going to blame it on the "You Know You're a Redneck If"...

but then realized that Ernest (Ernest, Scared Stupid) predated that fellow... So I blame it on Ernest...

Or maybe, we can blame it on Gomer Pyle.

 

[bulok]

opposite ends of the spectrum, one end you have the hicks, the other you have the "thugz"

same difference

 

[Sun_Down]

I know an Asian dude who dresses like a hick and it's the saddest/funniest thing I've ever seen. Every day this guy wears cowboy boots, camo, a trucker hat and tops it all off with a can of Skoal in the back pocket. I want to politely tap him on the shoulder and go, "*Ahem* You're, um, Asian. Just thought you'd like to know."

 

[Erzengel]

That's why I don't want to move south the mason dixen, ya here?

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

I saw this lady in Walmart the other day, so fat I couldn't get down the ailes with her on it. I had to go around the other way to grab the toothpaste I came to buy. Which is ironic, since I didn't need the extra exercise.

But I have to admit, I envy this type of person in a way. I care about my life a lot, therefore the thought of messing up bugs me to no end. But these people don't. at all. Or so it seems. I mean to go through life and not care about the fact that your wasting your one life, there is just something odd about that.

I believe I know exactly what you're saying.

I feel it when I watch the documentary "Trekkies".
It's a laugh explosion because the Trekkies are so hilariously out of touch, hopelessly nerdy, delusional, etc., but I also watch with envy.
All they need to find ultimate fulfilment....to unlock paradise on Earth...can be found under one umbrella....to shake hands with Brent Spiner...to win the right to pay $10,000 for a floppy piece of Klingon rubber once worn by "Klingon Guard #3" in episode 7 of ST:TNG......they all seem beyond pathetic, and preternaturally content.

 

[BatMatt]

Git'er Done!!!!!

God I hate him, read up on what David Cross wrote about him and you'll get my full opinion

 

[Victarion]

Seriously? Our country have an entire counter-culture of people wearing camoflauge in cities. This counter-culture has a mentality that it is a bad thing to be intellectual and good to be stupid. People from the north are talking with heavy southern accents. I know people in the south. I know not all southerners are pieces of white trash, so what I am asking is, how did this subculture become so prevelant?

Question: Why do they wear camo in public?

Answer: Simple: The're hunting...milf hunting...t:

I live in the south, and they're alright. That is, unless they've downed a case of beer. In that case, they're complete jackasses.

 

[StorminNorman]

Git'er Done!!!!!

Thats exactly the reason