Rednecks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon BeerDivining Dixie, A fascinating article about the Southern stereotype: “If you grow up and live most of your life in the South, you get tired of the caricaturization,” Richard Oppel, editor of the Austin American-Statesman, told me, echoing the first complaint of many southern journalists I interviewed. “Some days,” he continued, “I’m convinced that there is not an editor in New York or Washington who isn’t looking for the story of the large, big-breasted woman with blond hair who has married an eighty-nine-year-old codger from Houston and proceeded to take away all his money.” Posted by Dana at 12:48 PM
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The Roar of the Masses Could Be FartsThe thread in the blue ain't bad, either...
Posted by: Vidiot at April 26, 2004 01:21 PMOh god, I just can't read anymore Yankee journos on the South. Yanks never seem to understand that most Southnas, once we know you're a yank (which takes 1 second), will immediately start playing to the stereotypes we know you're looking for. And if you catch on and say "wait, wait, I want the real South," then we just know you're a liar too. While Levensen thinks his outsider status affords him an objective view of the south, he's probably really wrong about that. The stereotypes are both true and false...but only WE know which is which.
Posted by: reeves-neck at April 26, 2004 03:03 PMSouthern redneck as opposed to the "Bro! Jersey Shore! Bro!" brand of redneck that infests the northeast? I'll fuckin' take Cletus over Ant'ny any day, thanks.
Posted by: rednick at April 26, 2004 06:28 PM"I refer you to the words of one Michael Wayne Evans, preparing to die by lethal injection in Huntsville , Texas. "I don't hold nothing against no one, " he says, and then explains how and why he did it; "I cut the lady from the bottom of her chin to her hairline just above her forehead. I was trying to get her to quit talking."
Posted by: red clay at May 4, 2004 12:58 AM