My favorite Steven King short starts out by explaining why you should never turn down back roads in Oregon if there are no telephone poles. Words to live by in half the places I've lived in the PNW :)
Point of order: there is a distinctly different flavor to what we call "redneck" up here, and what qualifies to wear the badge in the south…
My favorite Steven King short starts out by explaining why you should never turn down back roads in Oregon if there are no telephone poles. Words to live by in half the places I've lived in the PNW :)
Point of order: there is a distinctly different flavor to what we call "redneck" up here, and what qualifies to wear the badge in the southern states. My brother and I got into a big debate over it one day when we were teens, because we always considered ourselves rednecks until Jeff Foxworthy redefined it. We tried to come up with a better label that was more Oregon. "Mountain boys" sounds too much like hillbilly. "Oregonites" sounded too much like a lumberjack religious denomination. After days of trying on new monikers we finally settled right back on redneck. Whenever the word comes up in conversation we still give each other a knowing wink.
My favorite Steven King short starts out by explaining why you should never turn down back roads in Oregon if there are no telephone poles. Words to live by in half the places I've lived in the PNW :)
Point of order: there is a distinctly different flavor to what we call "redneck" up here, and what qualifies to wear the badge in the southern states. My brother and I got into a big debate over it one day when we were teens, because we always considered ourselves rednecks until Jeff Foxworthy redefined it. We tried to come up with a better label that was more Oregon. "Mountain boys" sounds too much like hillbilly. "Oregonites" sounded too much like a lumberjack religious denomination. After days of trying on new monikers we finally settled right back on redneck. Whenever the word comes up in conversation we still give each other a knowing wink.
In my neck of the woods, we call them Meth Zombies.