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Redneck Riviera??

Hollibird avatar
HollibirdBeach Lover
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:confused: I have a question. I am a transplanted north easterner living in Destin... but still. why would anyone refer to our beautiful area as the 'redneck riviera'? Why would you want to be associated with such a derogatory name? Why would someone be proud to be considered a 'redneck'? In my hometown, that just meant you were poor, uneducated, and toothless. does it mean something else down here?

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BiffBeach Fanatic
#27
HA BWHAAAAAA HA!!!!!!!!

You may be correct; that, or to send another truck full of Bud light and sun screen; looks like he'll be there a while!!!!!:floor:


Oh Biff that's scary and it appears they are out of TP. Perhaps that is what the phone call is about.
RudyjohnSoWal Insider
#28
I disagree...redneck does not "aka" southern. I have observed redneck characters above the mason dixie line. :clap_1:
You are so right about that!
Cheering472 avatar
Cheering472SoWal Insider
#29
HA BWHAAAAAA HA!!!!!!!!

You may be correct; that, or to send another truck full of Bud light and sun screen; looks like he'll be there a while!!!!!:floor:

Yes the Bud makes sense. From the looks of his tan lines he doesn't use sun screen. 😀
Smiling JOe avatar
Smiling JOeSoWal Expert
#30






Maybe this photo from Crab Island will help explain the name a little bit.
Smiling JOe avatar
Smiling JOeSoWal Expert
#31
Oh, I just remembered that St Joe changed the name to Florida's Great NorthWest. Didn't you get the memo?
BiffBeach Fanatic
#32
Most excellant SJ!!! Imagine he would be quite the interesting professor.!










Maybe this photo from Crab Island will help explain the name a little bit.
Tom at BV avatar
Tom at BVBeach Lover
#33
Yes, I hear it called "Redneck Riviera" here in North Country. It's ok with me, but wonder why Northerner's like to call the area NorthWest FL. & not the Panhandle??? :idontno:

Tom (MI - Great Lakes Area)
RudyjohnSoWal Insider
#34
Yes, I hear it called "Redneck Riviera" here in North Country. It's ok with me, but wonder why Northerner's like to call the area NorthWest FL. & not the Panhandle??? :idontno:

Tom (MI - Great Lakes Area)
I'm in the Chicago area and when you say panhandle they look confused. Then as soon as you say NW Fla, they understand. And then when you say Redneck Riviera, they REALLY understand!
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Beachlover2Beach Fanatic
#35
SJ - that pix of Carb Island could be of Party Cove in the Ozarks - or even Petite Lake in the Chain of Lakes just North of Chicago.

I don't really care what it is called - just a long as I am lucky enough to own a piece of it.


In Illinois we call Wisocnsin people Cheeseheads and they call is FIBS

F***ing Illinois Bast****s
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steele mamaBeach Fanatic
#36
I have been dropping off Grayton Kid every morning at Bay Elementary in Pt. Washington.....I have seen no rednecks there! It is really weird. Prepy, white shirts coming out of the wood work. Watercolor, Rosemary, Seaside and Alys Beach... a whole different world for sure. I like to think that most of us are somehwere in between redneck and elite snobs. Let's just stay down home, friendly AND educated!
DBOldfordBeach Fanatic
#37
I have lived in Walton County, Atlanta, Austin TX, Denver CO, Newport Beach CA, Scottsdale AZ, and for the last 18 years in the Napa Valley...every single place had rednecks. They are universal. When I was an undergrad at FSU, a sorority girl with a crush on my cousin loved making fun of my Panhandle accent and referred to me as a "redneck." Well, this is a young woman whose father was a tomato farmer in South Florida and who actually wore a leopard-skin coat to classes in the winter months. I might have been a redneck (might still be...heck!), but I know lack of breeding and poor taste when I encounter it.:pissed:
Lady D avatar
Lady DSoWal Insider
#38
Are khaki pants part of his school attire? They have gone to school uniforms here over the past couple of years. White shirts and khaki or navy blue pants for boys and girls. Every city has what people refer to as rednecks. Some just more redneck than others.
OldtimerBeach Lover
#39
I have been dropping off Grayton Kid every morning at Bay Elementary in Pt. Washington.....I have seen no rednecks there! It is really weird. Prepy, white shirts coming out of the wood work. Watercolor, Rosemary, Seaside and Alys Beach... a whole different world for sure. I like to think that most of us are somehwere in between redneck and elite snobs. Let's just stay down home, friendly AND educated!


AMEN to that, Sister! Times have certainly changed since the time that #2 Sibling and I attended Pt. Washington School!!! Now, that was quite an experience for us city slicker kids. We both actually had shoes and wore them to school. The hot lunches were quite tasty if I remember correctly. Van Butler was the principal and may have even taught my grade (grades 5-8 in one classroom). We rode the school bus from Grayton Beach. :roll:
Smiling JOe avatar
Smiling JOeSoWal Expert
#40
I have been dropping off Grayton Kid every morning at Bay Elementary in Pt. Washington.....I have seen no rednecks there! It is really weird. Prepy, white shirts coming out of the wood work. Watercolor, Rosemary, Seaside and Alys Beach... a whole different world for sure. I like to think that most of us are somehwere in between redneck and elite snobs. Let's just stay down home, friendly AND educated!

Maybe that is because Rosemary, Seaside, Alys Beach, etc were not developed when the name, Redneck Riveria, stuck. ;-) Heck, Destin was not even Destin as we know it, when the name came around. There was Panty Maw City Beach and Ft Walton, and not much in between known to people from the South Eastern US.

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