I have to admit...Im a mountain man at heart. But, my roots are in the south. I'm a 6th generation American and the only one to be raised outside of the Mason-Dixon line or west of the Mississippi. So, I have a fair amount of good ol' fashioned redneck blood in me.
So, with that in mind, I wanted to pay some respect to the ingenuity of my fellow rednecks. Lets just take a quick snapshot of the things that we wouldn't have were it not for the glorious people of the south:
- Jack Daniels. (OK, I don't need to say any more, do I?)
- Moonshine or any major form of alcoholic production in general. (Bootleggers of the world, unite!)
- Alligator skin boots and handbags, alligator farms, alligator restaurants...pretty much anything involving the alligator can fall into this category. (I, for one, would not be caught dead within 100 ft of a live alligator. Those suckers scare the holy beejeezus out of me!)
- Anything Creole! (And being a foodie like I am, I would be sooo sad to not have this around!)
- Bass fishing tournaments! (Any excuse to fish!)
- Air-boats! (Any way to get to fish we cant get to with other boats!)
- Monster Trucks! (Again, I don't need to say anything else here...)
- And the ultimate advent of the south -- Nascar! Gotta love Nascar! Gotta love anyone willing to drive 1,000 miles just to watch someone else drive 500 miles! (I'm not really sure what Nascar stands for, but Im pretty sure its 'Non-Athletic Sport Centered Around Rednecks'.)
Aside from those outstanding and 'cant-live-without' contributions to society, I have complied a stack of inventions and oddities that are truly "Redneck".
I love rednecks. I think Im related to at least half of these guys. ;-)
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