This article makes it sound like you have to be a Barack Obama supporter to break the redneck stereotype — and if you’re not an Obama fan, then you’re a bigot:

Tony Viessman, a retired Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper, and Les Spencer, a retired Reliable Insurance broker are hardly poor, bigoted, ignorant farm laborers from the South whose skin has grown dark and weathered from days of direct sunlight.

They don’t look anything like what Webster describes as a redneck. In fact, the only trait they have to that definition is this pair of Rolla residents is white. But if you ask them, they’ll proudly tell you without batting an eye … they ARE rednecks … Rednecks for Obama.

Newsflash: Enlightenment doesn’t come from supporting a political candidate, especially one whose ideas are socialistic. Plenty of enlightened rednecks voted against Obama, and that doesn’t make them “poor, bigoted, ignorant farm laborers from the South.”

That said, I do like the blurb about former Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan, “The Redneck from Rolla.” Truly enlightened rednecks proudly embrace their roots like Carnahan and his wife, even if they only did it for politically expedient reasons.