Word: redneckedly
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Just what this country needs: a vague, big-spending, fast-talking hillbilly redneck in the White House. May God help...
...Comfort, a gerontologist and author of two previous books on aging, the chief disability of old age is agism itself. "Most of the handicaps of oldness in our society are social, conventional and imaginary. The physical changes are trifling by comparison." Because of "redneck bigotry" and "the steady drip of misinformation," the elderly are patronized, overmedicated and arbitrarily excluded from any significant social roles...
...article, "If You Like Richard Nixon, You'll Love Jimmy Carter," Carter's statements too often belie the facts. Though Carter now says he'd "rather die than betray" the trust of loyal black supporters, it was not very long ago that he maintained in Georgia he was a "redneck" candidate who could win "without a single black vote...
Culturally, Carter has very little in common with rednecks, but he understands what their fears are, what makes them tick. He understands that they want to think well of themselves and appeals to them to do so. He still has enough redneck in him so that they do not see him as a total alien. For all his sophistication, he has never quite shaken his discomfort in posh surroundings. In the Governor's mansion in Atlanta, visitors were often surprised to find him padding around the elegant halls in bare feet...
...There is some confusion about why Billy Carter seems in many respects the quintessential good ole boy, while Brother Jimmy couldn't even fit into the more polished subspecies of conscious good ole boys who abound in small-town country clubs. Billy, amiable, full of jokes, his REDNECK POWER T shirt straining unsuccessfully to cover the paunch, swigs a beer, carefree on a Sunday morning, as Jimmy Carter, introspective, hard driving, teaches Sunday school. Jimmy sometimes speaks wistfully of Billy's good-ole-boy ease...