Redneck vs. White Trash
What is the difference between White Trash and Rednecks?
(Insert punchline, or serious answers...I am wondering if most people think these are the same term or not)
(Insert punchline, or serious answers...I am wondering if most people think these are the same term or not)
posted by PsychDoctor at
12:43 AM
5 Comments:
It's a fine line, but there is definitely one there. Not all rednecks are white trash, and not all people who are white trash are rednecks.
For example, when I moved to Vegas and still worked for UPS, I had plenty of coworkers who were white trash, but had the gansta thug look rather than boots, hats, wranglers and belt buckle look that rednecks all seem to know and love.
I was thinking about this a little bit more, and I think that white trash is a little more synonymous with ghetto fabulous than it is to redneck. The main difference is that ghetto fabulous transcends the races whereas white trash is restricted to caucasians.
The truest of rednecks have names like "T.J." or "Dewey" (as seen on their belts) and they aspire toward a life rich with ranching, rodeo, NASCAR, hunting, trucks with 35 inch tires and window decals depicting a morph of Pamela Anderson and a male deer (???).
People in the white trash category have names like "Lindsay Lohan" and just seem to have been brought up in an environment which has rubbed out any ability for them to make a rational decision. Their lives are full of drama and they don't mind spreading it around (the trailer court).
Sometimes I consider ourselves (you included) rednecks, just because our family does stuff that others don't. (Okay, seriously...do you know any other families that shoot Christmas ornaments for fun?) I kind of like Alan Jackson's song "It's allright to be a Redneck" It's not allright to be "White Trash"-ever! Alpha pretty much summed it up. ***L***
I agree, white trash are the ones with the couch on the porch, 800 dogs under it, tobacco spitting, beer guzzling, wife-beater t-shirt wearing, flannel sporting, baseball cap on (even during a wedding, depicting their favorite trucking company), Nascar and WWF watching, living in a trailer, sleazy girls drunk most of the time, have kissed their first cousin kind of person.
A redneck is just a good 'ol country boy. Old fashioned, gun loving, country boy.
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