Hollywood has portrayed rednecks almost exclusively via a parade of inbreeds, morons and bigots.

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It isn't only the rednecks who ought to worry about the consequences of this.

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The biggest selling point for Alabama, however, is its people - those "rednecks" you like to ridicule.

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Rednecks fell for Frank Zappa while hippy intellectuals at the University of Texas became disciples of Mr Nelson.

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Meanwhile, America's rednecks can find lots of material on the web with which to fuel and indulge their prejudices.

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For years, New York City was the only city that San Franciscans could not dismiss as a backward place for Fox TV-watching rednecks.

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We call them "cashed-up bogans", which roughly translates as "urban rednecks".

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When Hollywood hasn't been demonizing rednecks, it has simply been dismissing them as being part of the "flyover" people who live between New York and Los Angeles.

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Liberal Britons who skip the Sun and the Daily Mail rarely encounter it, or indeed rednecks themselves, unless they meet at motorway service stations or on budget air flights.

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Take one part, rednecks and add snowbirds.

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In an ultra-conservative state where half the population goes to church every week and there are twice as many guns as people, Austin is an outcrop of pink hair amid the rednecks - an easy-living university town where intellectual slackers, pregnant punks and IT millionaires co-exist in harmony.

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