You may call me The White Man. Honkie. Ofay. White trash. Cracker. But don't call me a redneck, even as a joke. The other terms will make me laugh or make me nervous, depending on the situation. But redneck connotes a kind of meanness that is unredeemable, and it doesn't matter if one is a redneck living deep in the the piney woods or a redneck who lives in a gated community in a mansion on a golf course. Maybe Joan could explain.
You may call me The White Man. Honkie. Ofay. White trash. Cracker. But don't call me a redneck, even as a joke. The other terms will make me laugh or make me nervous, depending on the situation. But redneck connotes a kind of meanness that is unredeemable, and it doesn't matter if one is a redneck living deep in the the piney woods or a redneck who lives in a gated community in a mansion on a golf course. Maybe Joan could explain.
Absolutely right. I don't know if Joan could explain that or not, but I absolutely get it.