Redneck Riviera??

Barefoot guy - thats exactly what I'm talking about. In my hometown you wouldn't DARE go to the store with anything other that a polo shirt, expensive shoes, jewerly, and your hair done... I guess I should be happy that I can relax a bit!

Maybe you wouldn't, but I would. I think I goint to now. Please excuse me.

Barefoot guy - thats exactly what I'm talking about. In my hometown you wouldn't DARE go to the store with anything other that a polo shirt, expensive shoes, jewerly, and your hair done... I guess I should be happy that I can relax a bit!

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I went to the store today in my yoga pants and a Dread Clampitt t-shirt. And I grew up living and dying by the "no white before Derby Day or after Labor Day" rule. I like myself better now.

Barefoot guy - thats exactly what I'm talking about. In my hometown you wouldn't DARE go to the store with anything other that a polo shirt, expensive shoes, jewerly, and your hair done... I guess I should be happy that I can relax a bit!

a funny southern saying I've heard that make me giggle:

'fixin' to do something. I dont know why but when I hear that, I imagine Hee Haw music.

Oh, they do the same too, in small southern towns. The "Debs." They just used tons of hair spray on their big hair. Even the rednecks do it, too. ;-)

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?

Did you know that the toothbrush was invented years ago in Walton County? Otherwise it would have called the teethbrush.

The Great Northwest just makes me ill.

Everytime I hear that phrase it makes me think...Canada, eh?

I guess that was the best Rummell could come up with...."My Cash Cow Counties" was too impudent and Disney World was already taken.

I can't imagine getting all dolled up just to go to the store. It just seems like a waste of time to me. But then, I don't get dolled up ever. Because I'm a redneck. :clap_1:

Top Ten signs that you may be a SoWal Redneck

1. You like pork rind sushi

2. You wear pastel colored clothing, but explain that when the buildings are pastel colored...it?s really just another form of camouflage...............

3. Your idea of a wine (whine) cooler, is a block of ice to hit the kids upside the head with when they complain too much.

4. You still refer to polenta as funny grits.

5. Your mullet sticks out beneath a Watercolor hat.

6. You think the bike path is just an extra lane to accommodate the tires on your Mega Cab Dually.

7. The beach is really only good for lettin? off fireworks............every night.

8. Your idea of a garden ?water feature? is that corner where you like to pee.

9. You think a martini bar is a place run by that lesbo Tennis player.



...And the Top Ten sign that you may be a SoWal Redneck:

10. You name your beach cottage after Leonard Skynard lyrics.

I only wish that I had some rednecks in my family that bequeathed me their gulf front property along 30-A.

30-gAy ... Your Top Ten list is hilarious!
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Barefoot guy - thats exactly what I'm talking about. In my hometown you wouldn't DARE go to the store with anything other that a polo shirt, expensive shoes, jewerly, and your hair done... I guess I should be happy that I can relax a bit!

How about a FSU t-shirt and cutoff jean shorts? and flip-flops?

And what would you like in place of country music? Elevator music, or hip-hop?

neither. I prefer alternative rock.

It's such a shame when you see rednecks who still put rat tails on their children. makes me crazy. wish I had scissors. there is a hilarious website:

www.mulletsgalore.com

shows you you the classifications of all mullets.

Holli,

nice site!!!!!!!!!!

We win the prize for the mullet capital of the U.S. here on Ok.!!!!!

Stump grinding. Hmmm. I woud like to hear from a few people on this one- 30 gAy, Triple B, RO, Darlene, J-funn. Sounds like a kind of dance, though.

"Let's go see the WaCo Ramblers and do some big time stump grindin'!"

I have grinded some some "stumps" in my day, but it has NOTHING to do with the kind that ladyd posted. It wouldn't be classified as a dance though jenay, unless you were grinding the stump to music. ;-)

neither. I prefer alternative rock.

It's such a shame when you see rednecks who still put rat tails on their children. makes me crazy. wish I had scissors. there is a hilarious website:

www.mulletsgalore.com

shows you you the classifications of all mullets.

Whatz rong wid rat tells?

S.W.E.E.T.

I have grinded some some "stumps" in my day, but it has NOTHING to do with the kind that ladyd posted. It wouldn't be classified as a dance though jenay, unless you were grinding the stump to music. ;-)

I have grinded some some "stumps" in my day, but it has NOTHING to do with the kind that ladyd posted. It wouldn't be classified as a dance though jenay, unless you were grinding the stump to music. ;-)

:clap_1: Gawd you kill me! I will never look at stump grinders the same again. :funn:

I have grinded some some "stumps" in my day, but it has NOTHING to do with the kind that ladyd posted. It wouldn't be classified as a dance though jenay, unless you were grinding the stump to music. ;-)

:clap_1:

you are the best!!! my little stump grinder you...

Of course this is the Redneck Riviera. and its also L.A. - or Lower Alabama. If you've traveled South Florida enough, and then return to the good old Riviera, you realize you are back in the south - which is why I live here. It's where I love to be!!!

Of course this is the Redneck Riviera. and its also L.A. - or Lower Alabama. If you've traveled South Florida enough, and then return to the good old Riviera, you realize you are back in the south - which is why I live here. It's where I love to be!!!

Amen Sista! :clap_1:

Amen Sista! :clap_1:

yes ma'am! also, Northwest Florida is the technical name of this area of Florida, say when referring to a map. The Great Northwest? Crap.

Basically, most redneck references are by those who think rather highly of themselves. And a redneck is anyone with less money than them-so you make yourself feel better about your own situation when you can say, "Oh my gawd, look at those awful rednecks." People usually attack others with the the flaw in themselves that they most fear being exposed. So, these people go buy a polo shirt, flip up the collar, ride by in a leased BMW and look down their noses at the "rednecks"..when in fact, they are rednecks that just bought nicer clothes, eat at 30-A and wear their beach coverups all day on the beach because they are 40 pounds overweight............usually the rednecks are the ones that own the houses and condo's that the non-rednecks rent and cannot afford to buy....pretty funny.....how bout this, enjoy the most beautiful beaches and water in the world and have fun insteads of judging people? Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh make fun of the Rednecks...it'll make you feel better.... just having fun....and I love the Redneck Riviera!!!

There was a stump grinder at the end of my street today, so I guess "I might be a redneck." However, I didn't see any dancing rattails.

Basically, most redneck references are by those who think rather highly of themselves. And a redneck is anyone with less money than them-so you make yourself feel better about your own situation when you can say, "Oh my gawd, look at those awful rednecks." People usually attack others with the the flaw in themselves that they most fear being exposed. So, these people go buy a polo shirt, flip up the collar, ride by in a leased BMW and look down their noses at the "rednecks"..when in fact, they are rednecks that just bought nicer clothes, eat at 30-A and wear their beach coverups all day on the beach because they are 40 pounds overweight............usually the rednecks are the ones that own the houses and condo's that the non-rednecks rent and cannot afford to buy....pretty funny.....how bout this, enjoy the most beautiful beaches and water in the world and have fun insteads of judging people? Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh make fun of the Rednecks...it'll make you feel better.... just having fun....and I love the Redneck Riviera!!!

Those ones are just white trash with money. (If I may stoop so low as to quote Toby Keith. )

Just my two cents - "rednecks" are often racist. Of course they wouldn't admit it publically. There are alot of closet racists in the south (and in the panhandle as well), we are only a generation or two removed from the civil rights act, some lower class white people are still bitter about it - they are the true rednecks...

Overheard in 30A Subway during the lunch rush last week:
One redneck laborer: "Can't get a sandwich without waitin' behind a van full of Goddamned Mexicans or Ni**ers..."

I don't know if you would hear a statement like that in say, the French Riviera, which might be one reason for the distinction...feel free to weigh in on that aspect...

EDIT - Rednecks also litter...