Word: rednecking
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Literature still provides the dominant myth of Dixie. Tennessee Williams' hostile parlors, James Dickey's blood rites. William Faulkner's epic feuds, Margaret Mitchell's antebellum aristocrats, Richard Wright's mangled blacks supply the melodramatic leads. Popular culture contributes the script. Barrelbellied redneck sheriffs and chanting, chain-gang Negroes have been staples of films since...
...other end. That was the point Carter was attempting to make when he said in 1970 that Maddox "has compassion for the little man," and when he said that a Humphrey-Wallace ticket in 1972 "would do well in the South," and when he called himself "basically a redneck...
...then, I'm a long-haired redneck from Albany...
...GUESS YOU would call them redneck bars. They line rural highways throughout the South and West, claustrophobic, smoke-filled little places with sawdust on the floors--places where if you look someone in the eye you're prepared to fight or say, "Gee, I thought you were a buddy of mine. Can I get you a beer?" They smell of stale beer and cigarette smoke, with maybe a tinge of reefer wafting up from a distant corner, and there's always puke on the floor, it seems. And out in every parking lot is a half-crazed drunken fool loading...
...says an old California politician. "You know how the California primary's gonna go? Here's what I hear: Frank Church and Brown split the liberal vote; Scoop Jackson and Brown split the moderate vote; Jimmy Carter and Brown split the moderate vote; George Wallace and Brown split the redneck vote. That's 50 per cent for Brown and 12 per cent for everyone else and that's the future right there on the table...