Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
20000lbs_of_Cheese@tech.lgbt ("20000lbs of Cheese") wrote:
@futurebird @tk_uk I grew up in Appalachia; white trash, redneck whatever; but don't forget redneck used to mean something closer to a socialist or a union worker in the early 1900s.
There's tons of classist looking down on us poor and stupid, uneducated, whatever, I got rid of my accent at 13 by watching the news, because of how awful everyone in almost all media talked about the South.
That and y'all ain't heard banjo until you've heard mournful bluegrass banjo at a burial.