Loyal, rednecks are loyal. And genuine, or at least I find you to be. I never have to wonder where a redneck is really coming from. Maybe it's your simplicity (lack of duplicity) that brings many to erroneously conclude you are dumb.
Speaking of rednecks in Florida, one of my favorite authors, Harry Crews, wrote many novels about Florida rednecks. I went to Florida hoping to find the type of people and places he described, but what I found there was nothing like it. I suppose they might still be out there, somewhere, a kind of endangered species in Fla.
I'd find it mighty hard to call anyone living in a 4 million dollar house a redneck, though. That just does not seem right. Once a redneck, always a redneck?
That's a very intelligent way of breaking down the culture and yes, I agree with you. We live by the KISS "Keep it simple, stupid" mantra for most aspects of our lives.
I'll have to check out that book, if you can recall the name of your favorite of them I would love to know.
The Gospel Singer was the first that I read, and I believe it was one of his earliest novels. It was good enough to put me on a Crews binge. Car (I think) was another, in which a redneck eats a car, for real. And A Feast of Snakes was really good. He wrote one that I enjoyed about a body builder, can't remember the title of that one.