In the Glee-crazy US, the world's finest comic writer, David Sedaris, has remarked that on national signing tours he is often confronted with apparently redneck men who proudly push forward their fragrant adolescent sons and assure Mr Sedaris that they, too, are gay.
While Mr. Burnside worries about how the tough, seemingly redneck men on a rafting trip will respond to the gay couple, Karl enthralls and befriends them with his recollections of the gorgeous prom dress he once made for a girl he knew.
Then he starts his first punch line with what sounds like a baby's wail and ends with a Dylanesque snarl: "Wwwhen is it gonna end?" A note of the deep South creeps in at the end before shifting into something like an exasperated redneck man-child.
"An elegant southern redneck gentleman".
He's now 86, and still bears a bulging inch-long scar below his hairline where a "redneck posse" man's baton split open his forehead open that day. .
LSU had a surprisingly good year, but if you remember the lyrics to Randy Newman's Rednecks, "college men from LSU, went in dumb, come out dumb too," you know that 30+ games into the season these jocks still can't remember all those in-bounds plays.
It is not a voyage of self-discovery; he does not fall foul of rednecks, hit-men or femmes fatales.
With steadily rising unemployment, Dreux was having to deal with what amounted to an angry redneck generation of men thrown up by the seemingly unstoppable drift of labor from farm to factory.
There was also the fact that, at the time, the most popular wrestlers were a trash talking redneck, a grown man with a sock puppet, and a guy whose catchphrase was to point at his dick and yell "Suck it!" (Editor's note: That guy is now an executive at a billion dollar company).
In encouraging anyone who could pick up a guitar to write songs, they let Vlautin, a cripplingly shy young man in redneck Reno, Nevada, start to express himself.
A grandfather, he learns, was "mulatto," making the white guy pictured on the book's cover — and referred to therein as "a white boy," "Whitey," "Mister Charlie" and "just a redneck" — "the palest black man in Michigan".
