And another thing.

[thebitterguy]

The Game of Redneck Life.

It just strikes me as a little wrong. Maybe just too cruel. It's like Ghettopoly for white people. The goodness or badness must be debated by wiser men.

Just out of curiosity: What IS the difference between a Redneck & a Hillbilly? It's itched in my brain ever since the GI Joe issue where Cross Country got upset at being called Hillbilly ("Ah Ain't no Hillbilly! Ah'm a Redneck!"). Is there a difference?

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[gamescribe.livejournal.com]

Around these parts, the hillbillies are the people that live way out from the cities, literally up in the foothills of the mountains. Far from civilization, they lack much culture but tend to be good people.

Rednecks on the other hand can live anywhere, and are the willfully ignorant. At least, that's how we use the term around here.

The Game of Redneck Life isn't that funny to me, not because it's insulting or anything, but just because I didn't think it was very clever.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

Cracking on rednecks, while easy and often based in truth, isn't very clever.

[kinra.livejournal.com]

The difference is that Jeff Foxworthy has established a protocol for determining whether a given party might be a Redneck.

No, actually, I think scribe's got it down. A Redneck is just someone with a fairly simple outlook, who likes it that way. Neck's red from being out in the sun, presumably from their occupation, which likely involves manual labour. Redness of the neck is also considered to have some connection with the idea of the American South. I'm not 100% clear on the connection but it seems to suggest itself with the Foxworthy/Blue-Collar thing.

Hillbilly means just plain rural. Worst case scenario is almost certainly the supporting cast from Deliverance. I'm sure there are many misconceptions of Hillbillies of which I am myself possessed.

[ratmmjess.livejournal.com]

In addition to what the other folks have said, I think it's mostly geographically-oriented. Rednecks are from the South, hillbillies are folks from the mountains of Appalachia.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

Rednecks exist outside of the south.

[ratmmjess.livejournal.com]

There's a different local terminology, usually. In Florida they are "peckerwoods."

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

Having grown up in Florida (and still living here, 35 years later), I have to say that 'peckerwood' is not really used that much. We call 'em rednecks.

[(Anonymous)]

The peckerwoods I knew from the 'handle, west of Tallahassee, called themselves peckerwoods more often than rednecks, but that may have been limited just to that area.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

When I was a kid (late 70's), 'peckerwood' was in *some* use in south and central florida, but has since gone the way of the dodo.

[terminal-pariah.livejournal.com]

Anyone else play Redneck Rampage (http://www.mobygames.com/game/redneck-rampage)?

A friend of mine made a board game called The End is Near. All of the players are cult leaders who have prophecized different days for the Apocalyspe, but only one of them is right. You have to get as many people as possible to join your cult before the world ends! Lots of fun. No rednecks, though.

[mercuryeric.livejournal.com]

Is there a difference?

If you have to ask, you'll never know.

;)

-E

[doc-mystery.livejournal.com]

I actually remember reading in a Dermatology text book that "redneck" was applied to white farmers living in southern US states. They gained this name from the fact that their outdoor vocation led their skin to prematurely age. The back of the necks of such persons in particular was often actinically damaged in a peculiarly deeply grooved diamond pattern that actually has a latin name; cutis nuchae rhomboidalis.

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