"That will spawn a new generation of libtard reality shows like North American Gulag"
Speaking as a British Atheist, living in my very secular UK...:
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@Rachael, J. James
Speaking as a white Englishman who came from very much a working-class background (father a gas appliance fitter & meter reader; mother a cook at an RAF pilot training station in WWII then a barmaid & a school cleaner), and didn't go to college/university (post 6th Form at comprehensive school, I had to get a job to bring money into the house), I still regard myself as working class; a chip off the old block, you could say - father a Socialist, grandfather a diehard trade unionist & Socialist - thus I'm a left-winger too.
But that's never stopped me from learning new things, certainly about the wider world and it's peoples' cultures, traditions & beliefs.
So what's stopping said 'rednecks', 'hillbillies', 'crackers', inbreds et al from doing the same? As if not being ignorant would kill them?!
Over here in the UK, the working class, nay, poor people traditionally vote Labour: A Left of centre political party. I do, as I always have since I turned 18.
So would anyone care to explain to me how - least of all why - 'Hillbillies' in the US are right-wing?!
Midwest/Bible Belt USA: Up is down, black is white, left is right, War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength.
...oh, and as for '"hick" and "white trash," is a classist insult', I give you (from the "Top Gear" Road Trip Special) this:
http://www.freevlog.hu/video/3923.html
(emphasis added):
"They really do have an irony deficiency. I honestly believe that in certain parts of America now, people have started to mate with vegetables."
- Jeremy Clarkson, "Top Gear"
The film "Idiocracy" is becoming more & more a documentary with subsequent viewings.
Moral: I've said it before, but it bears repeating: Stupidity. It should be illegal.
There's a good reason why, in the developed world, education is compulsory*. Seems that in certain parts of the developed world, they never bothered to enforce that law. Mayhaps if 'hoemskuling' was made illegal in certain parts of the world.
Just throwing that one out there.
*- It certainly is in China. Q.E. and D.