>I AM a redneck. I was calling myself a redneck.
You did not refer to yourself as a redneck but rather you typed "i'm from upstate redneck new york". I might have thought you would have covered basic composition before graduate school.
>You might want to know, too, that in Florida people proudly call
>themselves cracker.
You might want to know that an African American roommate of mine called himself n-word. You must believe that it is only racist for me to say that word and not for him. At least now I know where you're coming from.
>Finally, if you're still worried about my leftist soul,
Not for even one moment.
John Thornton