Are you a Democrat, Republican, or Southern Republican?

bfisk has a very interesting question, and an errily accurate description of what different people will do when faced with danger. And it's freakin' hilarious.

Redneck home theater

We rednecks like to be proud of the things we've earned. Especially when we've earned a five-foot TV or a stereo that can literally blow out our windows. Although we don't always keep up with the Joneses the same way other people do. Namely, we'll have a five-foot TV and three-inch speakers. We'll invite everyone over to watch the race and hear those 800 horse beasts on our new stereo, but we'll be watching it on an 18 inch TV.

Rednecks will watch a brand-new plasma TV sitting on milk crates. I've seen someone put their TV up on jackstands. We'll sit in overstuffed leather furniture and watch a six-inch portable black and white TV. We'll buy mountain property so our brand-new big-screen CRT television won't implode. There's a guy in Cascade who bought that property and built that glorified shack so that he could have a four inch larger television than out on the plains (they really did used to implode). We don't care.

Don't believe me? Next time you're at someone's house to enjoy their superior electronics, think about it. Something's probably amiss. Dolby 5.1 surround sound, but a two-channel cable signal. So? It's 5.1 surround anyway. Maybe they're the first one on the block with an HDTV. But they're still using rabbit ears for half their channels. All ya'll might not usually be rednecks, but you're being gloriously unsophisicated when you only have one high-end item in a system with middle-of-the-road gear. A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link, but that doesn't mean we won't buy a titanium link to put right next to it.