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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...from Paris or any other cosmopolitan city. I’ve been to a farm once, and that was because my enthusiastic parents wanted to show me what farm animals look like in real life. Yet despite Georgia’s decisive modernity, I am still the brunt of redneck jokes, all the more outlandish because I am not red, or even white, but just plain brown...

Author: By Nafees A. Syed | Title: In Defense of the South | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

What's the least redneck thing about you? I have a nice house. Some people get disappointed. They'll come to end of the street and drop by and they're like, "Oh, you don't live in a trailer." Not anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedian Jeff Foxworthy | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

There never seems to have been a culture war about who's allowed to use the word redneck. But should someone from say, New York City, feel bad about using the term? I think there's a difference between laughing with and laughing at [people,] and I think that's why it's okay for me to do it. The whole thing started because that's all people called me. I'd go to work in New York and Chicago and people would be hanging around saying, "Foxworthy, you're nothin' but an ol' redneck from Georgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedian Jeff Foxworthy | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

Recently you mentioned that Nadya Suleman, the Octomom, is the definition of a redneck. Are there other public figures out there who you would say are rednecks? Jon and Kate. When you've got all those kids and [he's] got a girlfriend that everybody knows about, there's a little bit of redneck in that! (Read "Jon & Kate Plus 8, Divided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedian Jeff Foxworthy | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...have a favorite You Might be a Redneck If...joke? It's kind of like picking between your children. When I wrote "If you've ever stared at a can of orange juice because it said concentrate...," that made me laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedian Jeff Foxworthy | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

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