I can't be exposed to redneck things.

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I get really angry at the South and the people who live there. I can't even listen to songs like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiYeVWTL ... F&index=13
I live in the South and I want to be able to look out of the car window without ruining my day. I rarely rage anymore, but it adds to my anger.
I am an Aspie, but I also have bipolar disorder. But this may be because of 2008... I was emotionally and halfway physically abused by my 'father' who was a stupid... How can I help myself? I feel like I am prejudiced myself...

Umm, can you be more specific? What is is specifically about the south and rednecks that you have such a problem with?

Well I am not from the south but my dads side of my family are rednecks for the most part......they live in minnesota though.

Well, I must say, going postal and killing a bunch of rednecks probably wouldn't be doing any harm to society in the long run.

I actually sort of admire the blue collar "you're not better than me just because you have a fancy job" attitude that a lot of rednecks have, but the ones that seem to revel in their own ignorance, stupidity, and bigotry, as if they're things to be proud of, could all disappear tomorrow and the world would be a better place.

I think redneck is a state of mind and rednecks can be found all over the world. It's easy to make
assumptions about a group of people in a geographical location because you only notice the jerks.

Nobody ever notices the nice guy.

I figured out what my problem was. Anthrorusticaphobia converted to anger. This was a completely irrational knee-jerk reaction... I didn't actually hate anyone. I used to have and extreme anger towards technophobia, and then it gave way to a fear of technophobia. I think it is all a fear of traditionalism.

"who was a stupid"? Hah, that's what I used to call people around me too, although I live in Europe (but I can imagine what it's like down there, with religiousness etc).

Don't take it so seriously! Rednecks are really funny. I'm not saying that it's cool to laugh at other people, but... well... rednecks are funny.

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I was born and raised in the American South, but I kind of understand the contempt people have for the "redneck" culture. I myself get tired of all the dirty hairy men in deer hunting clothes who live in houses filled with marborol cigarette butts and empty budweiser beer bottles lying in their yards, not to mention all the racist jokes I hear about Obama from people who get offended when they're accused of being racist. I can understand somebody not liking Obama as a president, but I don't understand the people who have a negative attitude towards him yet the only thing they really know about him is his skin color.

Did you have a negevite expirence with "red necks"? I hate them too but it's because I've had so many bad expirences with them. I think a lot of people who are prejudice against black or Hispanic people is because they had a very negeative expirence with one of them.

I think that sometimes a prejudice attitude can be caused by bad experiences with a particular group of people, but most of the time people are prejudice simply because their family and friends are prejudice. When the people you are closest to show strong contempt for a certain type of person your whole life, you eventually grow up hating that person too and all people like them. So basically I think things like racism and sexism are inherited from our families.

Regarding the subject of "rednecks", I don't think it's right to say people who dislike them are being prejudice, not in the same way as disliking somebody who is a different race, religion, or gender. To me being prejudice implies a hatred or fear for a group of people who can't help being who they are. Rednecks, along with some other groups of like-minded individuals such as Hippies and Gangsters, all choose to fit the label society places on them and they should accept the consequences that not everybody is going to agree with their views on how life should be.

Am I making any sense?

As for the OP, he might have a different reason for hating "redneck things" in an intense way. It's OK for him not to like the redneck culture, he just shouldn't allow it to make him do something he'd regret like going out and hurting/killing somebody who fits the label.