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and look at this before I flush it’. . . you might be a Redneck”
(Foxworthy).
What is a redneck in the United States today, particularly as we
see the identity filtered through the work of Jeff Foxworthy? Is it a
transgressive social identity with a socio-political solidarity? An
honorable title, a proud proclamation of self and of traditional values,
positioned against what is perceived as an increasingly secular and
immoral modernity? At times, perhaps. However, more than anything
else, it remains a pejorative marker, a trashe B