The area in question consumes large quantities of entertainment that portrays country people as simple and backward. If the rednecks did not like people in the big city thinking they are stupid then explain the LA produced crap they call country music. The stereotype they package and sell to rural America is insulting, but the rednecks buy it and live it with pride.
This is elitism and bigotry at its finest.
You live in your little ivory tower cocoon and have no clue as to how life is for middle America. Country music reflects what that is. Name me one song that portrays country people as simple and backwards. I assume when you say simple you mean dumb, ignorant, mentally deficient. Generally speaking, nothing could be further from the truth. By "simple", we try to live uncomplicated lives. We try not to play "games". We want to know our neighbor, and be part of the community. We know where milk comes from, unlike many inner city dwellers. Overall, we are were we want to be, living the life we want to live.
Country folk have TV's, computers, go to Ivy League Colleges, etc. We are not retarded or backwards, and your implication we are shows nothing but your ignorance and bigotry. You buy into the fiction of Hollywood about us. You don't lie country music because you can't, and don't understand it. You have never had any of the life experiences that it portrays, just as I don't like Rap because I can't relate to it.
For the "most tolerant" people you claim to be, your are provably highly intolerant.
