> > Whether rednecks as we have come to know them ever exist or have ever existed is, of course, a different debate entirely.
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> You question the existence of the Pureblooded Redneck? Come to Alberta some time, and I'll show you a thing or two...
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> Don "Not a redneck, but has known quite a few of them. The stereotypes are all true." Monkey
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I was just reading in today's paper a Canadian Press article which stated that western Canadians, and in particular British Columbians, are the most likely to be stereotypically "Americanized" than the rest of the country. Quote: "B.C. tends to be even more Californian in their attitudes."

Well, when I was out West, I personally didn't notice anything that unusual about BC/Alberta. B.C.'ers seemed to have as much a "Canadian accent" as western Ontarians. However, in our drive from Vancouver, B.C. to Kelowna, B.C. (in the Okanagan Valley), we did notice a vast change of scenery from the lush coastal greenery to a desert-like scrub brush -- a dry ranching type of land -- and the towns there took on an alarming wild-west cowboy-frontier mentality. We stopped in at an A&W rest stop to get ice cream (yay!) and it was weird -- they were piping Western blues over the sound system and someone in workclothes and chaps was wandering around. I just don't know. Is this where ye olde canuck Rednecks hang out? :-) Like Eric, I used to question their existence, too.