Date:  Mon, 27 Oct 1997 23:27:58 -0500
From:  "Bethany K. Dumas" <dumasb[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UTK.EDU>
Subject: Re: redneck, nigger, good ole boy, kicker, etc.

On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, David A. Johns wrote:

> It seems to me that the issue is the same one surrounding the
> inclusion of the Confederate battle flag in the state flags of South
> Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi, or the use of that flag or the
> Li'l Reb mascot for high schools throughout the South. In these
> contexts, the non-rednecks or non-fans-of-the-Confederacy are a
> captive membership.

I think this issue has become doubly confused (surprise!). If I read you
right, you equate "non-rednecks" with "non-fans-of-the Confederacy." Is
that your meaning?

And if you do that (please correct me if I am wrong), you probably ALSO
equate "rednecks" (whatever your definition is) with "fans-of-the
Confederacy." Right?

Puhleeze! This is East Tennessee -- Union country! There are very few
fans of the Confederacy here!

Let us not mix labels any more than we mix metaphors!

Bethany, who had never known more than 2-3 people who admitted to being
Republicans until she moved to East Tennessee, and who still says that out
loud in public