The 10 Most Redneck Cities

[Misfit]

The 10 Most Redneck Cities in America

How We Did It

Being from Austin [Texas], I’ve had my fair share of encounters with rednecks over the years—when I’m buying groceries, walking around the city, pickin’ up ammo for my .22, etc. So coming up with criteria for this post was not difficult for me; in fact, the hardest part was narrowing it down. You see, rednecks are a surprisingly diverse folk—they love home cookin’, but they love fast food; they love their dogs, but they love their taxidermied animals just the same. In the end, though, I narrowed it down to these eight most essential criteria:

Percent of population that didn’t complete high school
Number of gun and ammo stores per capita
Number of taxidermists per capita
Number of cowboy boot stores per capita
Number of country radio stations per capita
Number of NASCAR race tracks close by
Number of Walmarts per capita
Number of riding lawn mower/tractor repair shops per capita



Atlanta, GA
Kansas City, MO
Oklahoma City, OK
Nashville, TN
Tulsa, OK
Fort Worth, TX
Arlington, TX
Sacramento, CA
Cleveland, OH
Mesa, AZ

 

[vraiblonde]

Being from Austin [Texas], I’ve had my fair share of encounters with rednecks over the years

The first sentence made me disregard this buffoon. Austin is absolutely not where I would go to redneck watch because you have to look too hard to find them. Even on 6th Street on a Friday night you're going to see more 20-somethings than traditional rednecks, and you will see all kinds of microbrews on tap instead of just Bud, Coors and Miller.

Then looking at his list I see Nashville, which is a good sized city and more ghetto than country.

So he's full of it.

 

[Larry Gude]

So he's full of it.

I would agree but, if he was faithful to his criteria;

Percent of population that didn’t complete high school
Number of gun and ammo stores per capita
Number of taxidermists per capita
Number of cowboy boot stores per capita
Number of country radio stations per capita
Number of NASCAR race tracks close by
Number of Walmarts per capita
Number of riding lawn mower/tractor repair shops per capita

...then it's not something we can agree or disgree with. That said, we can certainly disagree with his criteria as well as his idea of what a redneck is and, given the places on his list, I'd say his idea of a redneck pretty much comes from 6th Street in Austin which is to say not what most people think of as 'redneck'.

Good lord. OK City is damn near cosmopolitan on any realisitic 'redneck' scale. And Atlanta is a black town so, unless equality has spread beign a redneck to include black folks, that's laughable. Same with Cleveland. Not redneck at all.

 

[Larry Gude]

And he sure as hell hasn't been to the Mesa, AZ I've been to however many times.