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From: "badgolferman" <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com>
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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 23:58:54 -0000 (UTC)
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Marion wrote:

>On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:54:44 -0000 (UTC), badgolferman wrote :
>
>
>>>>Thank you!
>>>>But can you learn to spell it correctly?  Redneck!
>>>
>>>"hillbilly"
>>>Better now?
>>>
>>
>>A hillbilly is someone from the mountains of Appalachia �X like West
>>Virginia, western Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky. A redneck can be
>>from anywhere, even places like California, New York or even
>>Canada. Rednecks are a higher class than hillbillies.
>
>Always purposefully helpfully striving to add on-topic value...
>Since our esteemed Professor Lorenz has so eloquently brought up the
>subject, I feel it apropos to observe that, in a sense, both the term
>Redneck & Hillbilly generally deprecatingly refer to white, rural,
>uneducated working-class people... the Hillbilly hails generally from
>the Appalachians while the Redneck is more broadly associated with
>the South.
>
>However, as badgolferman noted, there's no legal restriction on using
>these endearing words for someone like, oh, maybe me. Since I live in
>the boonies of Silicon Valley, I often describe my "redneck repairs"
>where, in my use, it's of the sense that the back of my neck is
>sunburned from the outdoors.
>
>Note: Since I live in California, my pronouns are Me, Myself, and I.


Rednecks are actually quite ingenious often times.  They are like
MacGyver, having the ability to fix anything to suit their needs.
There are quite a few websites dedicated to the term, "There, I fixed
it!" highlighting some of their masterpieces.  Here's one such website:
https://failblog.cheezburger.com/thereifixedit

-- 
"My vision is to make the most diverse state on earth, and we have
people from every planet...On the earth in this state." ~ Gray Davis,
former governor of California