>>>Don't knock KFC! And Walmart and KFC go with NASCAR, not pro-wrasslin... :o)
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>>>You eat at KFC? Yuck!!!! I ate at a KFC once, back in 1983...and thought I was gonna hurl.
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>>>NASCAR is for people who think that pro-wrasslin' is too complicated (or wait...maybe pro-wrasslin' is for people who think NASCAR is too complicated)
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>>>You're starting to worry me....any chance your name isn't secretly Tracy Jo? <s>
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>>Not trying to start an argument or anything but you are sounding very elitist in this discussion. You weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, were you?
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>>I sure wasn't. There wasn't much money on my mother's side and none at all on my father's. He was the first one in the entire family tree who became wealthy, and that was through sheer will and hard work. At the time it was still possible to be highly successful in business without a college degree. (I was the first one in the family to go to college). Many of my relatives do live in trailers or ramshackle wooden houses, do work in factories or other blue collar jobs, do watch NASCAR (an uncle and a cousin have both won local stock car races), do shop at Wal-Mart. And they're not dummies. Maine is just a poor state other than right around Portland and the summer homes on the coast. So I take a little offense.
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>>You don't need to respond. I'm just suggesting you be more open minded and less judgmental of people you don't know.
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>This is just ridiculous. It has nothing to do with class or income. Like you, I have extremely poor relations. My mom worked at the shoe factory for years. We had no money and yet my mom refused government assistance her entire life. She would never lower herself to accept money from the government or what she considered a "free handout." Her relatives were the same. It was a state of mind. You worked for what you got period. I certainly did not grow up with money and paid for college by working two jobs and then joined the military. I have relatives in Wisconsin who built cars for stock car races. Down here in the south a large portion of my daughter's family are real rednecks. NASCAR is bigger to them than college basketball. They all have a sense of humor. They all laugh at themselves. It is not snobbery or elitist. You are out of touch with reality and on the pc bandwagon as are a few others. It appears that few here have actually associated with the poor (and many rednecks are not "poor" at all) or with rednecks given the comments I've read today. A very large portion of the "redneck community" are very wealthy - have million dollar incomes - my daughter has relatives who fall into that category as well. They are still REDNECKS.

I don't think my point was ridiculous (shrug). I wasn't denying that I grew up among rednecks. My point was that they should not be looked down upon or mocked.