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Clearly you haven't been here. There are plenty of areas in San Diego County that are rural and quite conservative. Despite Duncan Hunter being a literal felon,

Clearly you haven't been here. There are plenty of areas in San Diego County that are rural and quite conservative. Despite Duncan Hunter being a literal felon, the 50th district still didn't flip this election.

kodah 6y ago
Being a felon or conservative doesn't make you a redneck, and yes I've been there. I'm not surprised to see you only know the term in a pejorative sense.
- arrosenberg 6y ago
  Nothing I said was pejorative in any sense, but I understand that some people are very, very sensitive these days. Most of the time when a politician is removed from office, their party pays the price e.g. San Diego Mayor Bob Filner (D) was replaced by Kevin Faulconer (R), even though the City of San Diego is pretty heavily Democratic these days.
  - kodah 6y ago
    I don't really know what any of this has to do with the term "redneck" or how it was used. Me calling out the inappropriate use of the term redneck and your contextualization/juxtaposition of it isn't being sensitive. Feel free to walk back your statement in a more direct manner. In case you needed some reminding, since you're defending the term and its use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck
    - arrosenberg 6y ago
      You weren't calling out the inappropriate use. You said we didn't have people who would meet that description in San Diego. You are completely incorrect about that, if one were so inclined to use the term. I wasn't taking a position on the term itself, just your lack of knowledge about the place I live. Don't hurt yourself getting down off that high horse.
      - kodah 6y ago
        I live in San Diego too. I'm also from the Midwest/South where there are rednecks that are Democrats. The term doesn't mean what you think it means (at least based on how the author used it and how you continue to contextualize it). I've also paid attention to the doxxing that's been going on in r/SanDiego and most (if not all) of these people live in the city and are business owners. They are hardly definitional rednecks.
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        casefields 6y ago
        I think what we are seeing is it's open season on poor whites. My family comes from Kentucky where there truly are rednecks and hillbillies. People, like that other user, are trying to expand its definition to include people that frankly are just normal conservatives in metro areas. We saw this with the word thug. Everyone know what you're doing if you call black people from the suburbs thugs.
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kodah 6y ago

Being a felon or conservative doesn't make you a redneck, and yes I've been there. I'm not surprised to see you only know the term in a pejorative sense.

arrosenberg 6y ago
Nothing I said was pejorative in any sense, but I understand that some people are very, very sensitive these days. Most of the time when a politician is removed from office, their party pays the price e.g. San Diego Mayor Bob Filner (D) was replaced by Kevin Faulconer (R), even though the City of San Diego is pretty heavily Democratic these days.
- kodah 6y ago
  I don't really know what any of this has to do with the term "redneck" or how it was used. Me calling out the inappropriate use of the term redneck and your contextualization/juxtaposition of it isn't being sensitive. Feel free to walk back your statement in a more direct manner. In case you needed some reminding, since you're defending the term and its use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck
  - arrosenberg 6y ago
    You weren't calling out the inappropriate use. You said we didn't have people who would meet that description in San Diego. You are completely incorrect about that, if one were so inclined to use the term. I wasn't taking a position on the term itself, just your lack of knowledge about the place I live. Don't hurt yourself getting down off that high horse.
    - kodah 6y ago
      I live in San Diego too. I'm also from the Midwest/South where there are rednecks that are Democrats. The term doesn't mean what you think it means (at least based on how the author used it and how you continue to contextualize it). I've also paid attention to the doxxing that's been going on in r/SanDiego and most (if not all) of these people live in the city and are business owners. They are hardly definitional rednecks.
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      - casefields 6y ago
        I think what we are seeing is it's open season on poor whites. My family comes from Kentucky where there truly are rednecks and hillbillies. People, like that other user, are trying to expand its definition to include people that frankly are just normal conservatives in metro areas. We saw this with the word thug. Everyone know what you're doing if you call black people from the suburbs thugs.
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