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Also in Texas, can also confirm. My coworker dropped the phrase "Texas Cadillac" the other day. Couldn't cringe hard enough. I hope to be able to afford an el
by _underfl0w_ 8y ago
Also in Texas, can also confirm.
My coworker dropped the phrase "Texas Cadillac" the other day. Couldn't cringe hard enough.
I hope to be able to afford an electric car for my next car purchase - for now, just a tiny Mazda stick-shift.
Kinda having second thoughts after reading that comment about battery production though...
- xnyan 8y ago> "Texas Cadillac" Also known as the redneck cadillac.
- thoughtpalette 8y agoI just learned that the term "redneck" actually comes from an old coal miner union strike that showed solidarity by using red kerchiefs hanging around their necks. I can't use that term in the same way ever again, fwiw.
- SECProto 8y ago> I just learned that the term "redneck" actually comes from an old coal miner union strike that showed solidarity by using red kerchiefs hanging around their necks. Curious, I reasearched this. While that was indeed one use of the term (especially re: the West Virginia mine war in 1921), the etymology for the term as we use it is from 1900ish, 20 years earlier. And it refers, more generally, to farmers and working class folk whose necks would be red from sunburn (wikipedia, well cited in the article on redneck). Stereotyping rural or working class or poor people using the term "redneck" is bad in its own right, but I dont think it originates from the strike of a coal miner's union. But thanks for leading me to do some research, it was interesting!
- tomcam 8y ago> Stereotyping rural or working class or poor people using the term "redneck" is bad in its own right Much of my family is made up of these people. And to a person they call themselves… rednecks.
- SECProto 8y agoAnd do these relatives say to urban snobs, "Please, I want you to dismissively refer to me as a redneck"? Because context of usage is important, and changes meaning.
- thoughtpalette 8y agoAhh thanks for digging deeper and providing insight on this issue. I'll admit, I only heard the description through a documentary and did not do any digging of my own. Now I know :}
- Symbiote 8y agoIn England "Chelsea tractor" means a jeep-like vehicle that never leaves paved roads. Chelsea is a very fancy area of London. The kind of place Prince Harry went to party.