Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.

I'm kind of a closet redneck.

The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.

It's partly the Southernization of America, in that the Southern working-class version of redneck is becoming the national version, and it's good-natured, it has humor and, in some ways, it's a performance.

He's gonna become a redneck.

I'm a redneck.