I am sorry about that! Living in the D. He was probably right. Someone could do a fun piece on the sliding scale of definitions of redneck. The West Virginia definition is very different than the Long Island definition. Categories: Economic Philosophy Liberty. Read This Article. John hare Oct 16 at am. Henry Oct 16 at am. Pierre Lemieux Oct 17 at am.
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The most people you see there are mostly Mexican For some, making America great again means returning to a time when it was whiter, more male-dominated and more in line with what the religious right and its political allies consider traditional family values. She cited an encounter on a hot summer day. She was out in shorts and a top when she ran into a woman in full Muslim garb. Tonya Register, a year-old Trump supporter in Fountain Valley, said she has nothing against Mexicans — they were in Southern California long before she was, she noted — or the Asian immigrants filling up her Orange County neighborhood.
The freelance writer went on, waving her hands in frustration. Change, of course, entails risk, and many readily concede there is considerable risk in handing the country over to a man who has never served in the military or spent a moment in government — something the country has never done in its entire history. Many liked what they saw early Wednesday morning, when Trump, apparently as surprised as most others, laid claim to the White House.
He seemed more serious, they said, more responsible and sober, and they expect that to continue as the weight of the office settles on his shoulders. It is clear what Trump supporters expect, in keeping with the grand though often contradictory promises he made during the campaign. A stronger economy that will produce more jobs with better pay.
Lower taxes. Less bureaucracy. Cheaper and more widely available healthcare. Better and safer airports, roads and bridges. A muscular foreign policy that will deter aggression and make the country stand taller in the eyes of both friend and foe. A fail-safe policy that will keep people from entering the country illegally and, especially, keep terrorists offshore.
Perhaps more than anything, they want a president who pays attention to the half of the country bereft of hope: That, they said, would truly make America great again. Twitter: markzbarabak. Click isupportlocal for more information on supporting our local journalists. Here, she writes about a group of her fellow Russians who fashion their lives after a very particular part of the American population. MOSCOW — Waitresses in red uniforms, as American cheerleaders might wear, carry burgers, french fries and Cokes to red-and-beige sofas and little white tables.
On their way, they pass walls covered with numerous pictures, where Elvis Presley is next to a Texas map. Ray, as he asked to be called, chose this place for an interview. He is 24 years old and recently left military service, which is required for all young men in Russia. At the moment he has no full-time job.
At the age of 6 or 7, he and his dad used to listen to country music on vinyl. When I was 16, I met people on the internet who had the same interests that I did — guns, military and country. The community is quite small. As they say themselves, there are about 15 people in Moscow, not more than 10 in St. Petersburg and a couple in other parts of the country. On VK. But most of them find friends with the same ideas on VK pages about American cars mainly pickups and country music.
The people interviewed for this story said they are trying to look exactly like Americans. They live according to their moral laws. Burakov, who self-identifies more as a country boy, learned about the culture in , when he wanted to buy a new car. Before, Burakov had several American cars, but they were so big, he felt like a bus driver.
That was until he tried a pickup for the first time. In its cabin, there was space just for two, but the bed could contain almost everything. One could take inflatable mattress, go out of town and just lay there, watching stars. When he was 14 years old, his father gave Ivan his Jeep Wrangler. The last one he restored by himself and drives it very rarely. And I need two for one car! For him, his pickup is independence. One day he can drive to IKEA and bring home everything he bought; another day, put a wild boar in the truck bed, shot on a hunt.
There are several commonalities between the far left and the far right — including a disdain for liberals — but the biggest divide is on the topic of intolerance. A group of neighborhood boys, each no older than 12, gathered around. At 6ft2in, he towered over them.
Maybe you can think of another word to use. The boys conferred. A year-old activist with long hair and a full bushy beard, Neely had a full day of political activism ahead of him: Donald Trump was in Harrisburg to mark his th day in office with a speech at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex.
In other parts of the city, the liberal opposition were also readying themselves: organizations such as Keystone Progress , Dauphin County Democrats and the local Indivisible group planned to march in protest. Instead, they had set up a picnic site in a small park, offering a barbecue and leftist pamphlets. Someone had planted a bright red hammer-and-sickle flag in the grass.
It is not an exclusively white group, though it does take a special interest in the particular travails of the white poor. Pennsylvania is an open-carry state, where gun owners can legally carry firearms in public without concealment. Redneck Revolt members often see the practice of openly carrying a gun as a political statement: the presence of a visible weapon serves to intimidate opponents and affirm gun rights.
Many of the cookout attendees owned guns, and had considered bringing them today — but ultimately they had decided to come unarmed, in the interest of keeping the event family-friendly. Redneck Revolt began in as an offshoot of the John Brown Gun Club, a firearms training project originally based in Kansas. Many Tea Party activists were fellow working-class people who had endured significant hardships as a result of the economic crisis which, in his eyes, had been caused by the very wealthy.
By supporting economically conservative politicians, Strano thought, they would only be further manipulated to benefit the already rich. Now, eight years later, more than 20 Redneck Revolt branches have sprouted across the US; the groups range widely in size, some with only a handful of members. Max Neely is a member of the Mason-Dixon branch, which encompasses central Pennsylvania as well as his native western Maryland.
The group draws a great deal of inspiration from the Young Patriots Organization , a s-era activist group consisting primarily of white working-class Appalachians and southerners. The group opposed racism and worked closely with the Black Panthers, but they did make use of the Confederate flag in their recruiting.
Thurman explained that it was used only strategically, to start conversations with poor white people who might identify with the symbol. In the same way that the Young Patriots once used the Confederate flag, Redneck Revolt seeks to employ another emblem of rural America: guns. Redneck Revolt groups work on providing an explicitly anti-racist presence in rural areas, and focus particularly on gun shows.
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