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Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
Rednecks (Randy Newman)
I remember this song when it came out. I would hope things have changed but I remember way back when I was a kid growing up in Texas how people felt about New Yorkers and especially Jewish New Yorkers.
I knew some people who felt exactly like what Randy is describing and I wonder if Mike Bloomberg will be viewed with such vile anti-semitism in this day and age.
When I wanted to come East to go to college, I had an aunt who chided me: "All of your people are southern people." You really weren't supposed to leave Texas, much less go East to NYC (actually I went to school in Pittsburgh but wound up in NYC).
Now I am very happy with a Jewish husband and a daughter in law who is a rabbi. I have a three granddaughters raised in Judaism.
My choice for our nominee is Warren, but I would happily vote for Mike Bloomberg as our first Jewish president and hope Newman's song is very much out of date...
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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CTyankee
Nov 2019
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OKNancy
(41,832 posts)1. I've known some wonderful people you could call rednecks
Solid Democrats too. One who really sticks in my memory was Harry D. He was a farmer in western Oklahoma. He was my husband's family friend. Ironically I also had relatives from near there too. We went to the cemetery in Canute OK. There, not three graves down from my husband's grandfather was my great-grandmother. Her name was Nancy too.
Anyway, having dinner with Harry and his large family was a real treat. Politics and Republican hate. It was great.
We spent the night in a bed covered with homemade quilts.
Anyway, I digress. It's never a good idea to stereotype IMO.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
maxsolomon
(33,432 posts)2. The song is multi-layered and sung from an ironic standpoint.
In the end, it indicts Northern Whites as surely as it does Southern Rednecks.
Newman was a genius in that era.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)3. I agree.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden