As someone from the east side of the state, it definitely fits. Friends joke that I live in West Idaho.
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PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Kinda makes a bit more sense when you consider that the school is in Sultan, Washington and it’s address is on Turk Drive.
But also: Washington state… redneck?
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Outside of Seattle/Tacoma, very redneck. Get up to the mountains and cattle farms.
Numenor@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Stripper coffee is where ladies strip? And there’s hot beverages?
Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Pretty much hit the nail on the head right there. That’s exactly what they are.
ICastFist@programming.dev 7 months ago
This is the first time I’ve heard about these stripper coffee shacks. I want reviews (since I doubt I’ll have enough money to ever visit one)
JoShmoe@ani.social 7 months ago
So are we talking Christina Ricci in chains or more like Kim Basinger riding Michael Shannon?
Default_Defect@midwest.social 7 months ago
You don’t even have to go that far, I used to live in a coastal Navy town that had a meth problem. I bought my car from a dealership that got busted 6 months later. KFC is where they sold the meth that was cooked in the Ford dealership across the street. I almost miss Oak Harbor…
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Oh yeah, I’ve been around the country enough to know that anywhere outside of the city is Red, no matter what state you’re in, but “Redneck” just has a very specific southern connotation to me.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I lived near Federal Way, and by driving just 15 min, I could go see people riding horses, idiots rolling coal, and trailer trash communities and everything. Just a block or two over from my house, I’d see the stereotypical furniture and appliances littering front lawns. A block or two the other direction was typical was typical PNW neighborhoods with cedar shake roofs nestled into the evergreens. And a few blocks beyond that would be someone with a couple cows on a massive field.
WA is an odd place. I’m in Utah now in a similar community, and there seems to be far fewer “rednecks” in my area. There are some farms, but I guess there just isn’t as much “liberal” culture to visibly resist or something. Our actual rednecks live a bit further out, and they’re probably more extreme (have some DezNat nonsense here in the sticks). We have more lifted trucks, whereas in WA they’d be older work trucks (they actually have hay to move).
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 7 months ago
Does it though? Like saying the Germantown school mascot should be the Krauts.
Other Options:
Viziers
Janissaries
Genies
Bombards
Footstools
Instan-Bulls
Harem Girls
Mhmm
Wait, what were we talking about again?
Zagorath@aussie.zone 7 months ago
I was about to comment how cool the name Bombards would be, but then I read the Istan-Bulls and sorry but you should be legally obligated to go with that name when it’s an option, it’s that good.
thefartographer@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Better than their previous name: the Constanti-No-Bulls
Poiar@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Why they changed it I can’t say
People just liked it better that way
exocrinous@startrek.website 7 months ago
Constant Nobles.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
And their fans are bull-stans then?
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Janissaries
When you want to make it even worse…
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 7 months ago
People always expect Oregon and Washington to be super liberal but once you leave the city it’s a bunch of hicks in the woods (respectfully)
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I don’t even expect Portland to be super liberal. That city has a long history with the KKK.
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
They tried to make Oregon a whites only state a long while back. Not even wanting slaves, during 1857 when they applied for Statehood they both banned slavery and any free black people from existing in the state. It was more of a “We don’t even want to see them” kind of hatred.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 7 months ago
That’s some of why East Tennessee and West Virginia sided with the Union in the Civil War, too.
It wasn’t uncommon at the time.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Pretty sure I also heard about how the clan and the Catholic Church formed an alliance to keep the Chinese immigrants out. It worked, then they turned on each other. Because of course that’s what would happen.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Pretty much the story of every blue state.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Red Country, Blue City is pretty much the case with every state. The most liberal people I’ve ever met were in Asheville, North Carolina, and I’ve never been surrounded by more MAGA-loving chuds than when I spent a summer in Redding, California.
careful@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Former Asheville punk, turned loose in the hick side of southwest Nova Scotia. I’ve seen a disturbing amount of MAGA here, enough to rivel my time in North Carolina… But In Canada.
Shit is wild. Everyone here is xenophobic and racist as it gets.
FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Isn’t this the story of every rural area in every country? Communities that are out in the middle of nowhere won’t have had much cultural exchange and tend to become insular.
Jackcooper@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yes, if you’re more than an hour from Seattle/ half an hour from Spokane you’re probably in redneck territory
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Can confirm. I grew up about 30 min from Seattle and was on the border of redneck territory. I played high school sports with schools out “in the country” and was able a 15 min drive from some ranches and whatnot.
WA is a very weird place.
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I believe it. Even here in California small mountain towns tend to lean heavily conservative
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Five minutes out the cities or cross the mountains to the east or go on the peninsula or drive south or north…
Puget Sound has population high density and mostly dominates the politics of the state.
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 7 months ago
My aunt lives in Sultan and all I can say is: yep.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
As an European, I can confirm that all Americans (south and north) are Yankee rednecks
thefartographer@lemm.ee 7 months ago
As a Texan, I can’t read goddamn thing between my wild diabetes eyes and rampant illiteracy
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
How can you afford wild diabetes in 2024? Even pasture raised costs an arm and a leg.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Eastern European = Southern America.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Hey, Yanks live in real America, those fake Americans to the north and south of us don’t qualify. They can be rednecks, but not Yanks.