Once a year, Rednecks from all over the world convene in the desert outside of Palm Springs for the Stage Coach festival where a bunch of (mostly) white people become inebriated, perform assless chaps dance offs (see video above) and listen to country music.
There are stereotypes for a reason and Stage Coach represents what much of the world think of when they think of Murrica. I, obviously, try to go every year (Ed Note: Little known fact, the Broad loves country music. And Stereotypes. And Bad behavior – which abounds). By the final night of the festival, brains have been fried by the sun, smokes and gallons of booze. And that’s when it gets really interesting.
Last year, to Stage Coach’s credit, they did try to integrate the stage (and thus the crowd) by having Darius Rucker and Charlie Parker perform – but frankly, only Charlie Parker counts.
And then there’s the fashion. Check out the best selling T-Shirts/bikinis from the stalls. It is all sorts of wrong. Trust.
(After the jump) Behold: AMERICA!
Confederate flag shirt? Check. Homophobe shirt? Check. Sexist Crap Shirt? Check.
There was a lot of this going on…
Party on!
I love a tractor
The lady on the right looks just like my Aunt Dee
One’s pregnant, one’s a wheelchair, both are ready to rock
Cowboy in Recovery. Yep.
Buttcheeks: The weekend’s most over-used acessory.
My sister with her new friends
Confederate flag bikini, anyone?
That video. I’m speechless.
it got worse – there was some female topless assless chaps dancing at one point (which Ashton Kutcher was judging – yes, he was there), but that got shut down pretty quick.
paula… is this your site? fantastic…but the video is mo longer available. I’m bereft. linda
linda – bug is fixed. you may now enjoy the assless chaps dance of!
It’s too bad we don’t recognize that “Rednecks” are actually a unique culture with their own set of values, just as much as we also have Hispanic, Black, Asian, Jewish, and other ‘cultures’. Because even if they prefer to remain invisible, rednecks know who they are, so perhaps it’s time we all help ’em come “out of the closet”.
That way we can bring our respective ‘cultural differences’ out in the open, instead of continuing to exploit them as “politics”, the way Karl Rove and Limbaugh would have us do via the “culture wars”.