Mix Blood Locals?

[Hawnjigs]

Was talking to a friend who spent some time working the oil rigs in Bayou country, and he mentioned locals thought he looked like a "CoonAss", which he explained referred to blended racial ancestry.

Here in HI we get really complex racial mixes when the migrants from Asia, the continental USA, & Pacific islands intermarry. So, some mix bloods just say they are "poi dog" which refers to an obsolete(I think) native Hawaiian practice of raising dogs without concern for breed lines as long as they were fat & tender. Not sure whether the "poi" referred to the dog's food or what they were served with - most of you know that poi is mashed staple tubers, right?

Anyway, just wondering what other names local area residents call themselves, and why?

 

[toadfrog]

Amen Doc. X2 However for myself I'm from the mutt mutt tribe .

 

[Lost Pole]

CoonAss and redneck are interchangeable here. Creole and Cajun (Acadians) are two. Many other names fly short and most are considered derogatory. We have a broad spectrum here and I enjoy em all.... !



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[SaltyBuckster]

LOL,I'll sit out also.I've been called a lot of things being a Production Manager for the last 25 years in Arizona.I had to learn the language of both the Mexicans and the Indians to find out what I actually was,lol.

 

[JSC]

To beat them "Coon Asses" and all them words in LA is going to be hard to beat

 

[Radtexan]

Arent they all better than snowbird's JSC ????

 

[redman]

Well wasn't going to say anything BUT. I like that term fits me well!!! Coon A$$. Most of us CA can live off the land and survive very well Thank you very much. Funny I have hear people call us those dirty old Indians. Those same people will ask me for stuff out of the garden or for a mess of fish. They will follow the boat like a newborn pup after its mother in order to catch a bunch of big Crappies. They even ask where to go to get the fattest squirrels. Amazing just Amazing. Yep those Dirty Old Indians got to love them.

Redman

 

[JSC]

"Arent they all better than snowbird's JSC ????"
Now RT U know they can't help it .. (the "Snow Birds" that is)

 

[AtticaFish]

I live in such a 'sheltered to the rest of the world' area that there is very little diversity - if i was to guess i would put it somewhere around 75% white unless you drive an hour in just about any direction. The oddest match-ups might be when a redneck hooks up with city folk. There are a couple large farms that hire many seasonal workers/pickers from the south, but most do not speak english, they seem to keep to themselves and usually disappear before the snow starts flying.

With the majority being so one sided... those who are not the same get very duragotory names. Many of the young kids fly the 'stars & bars' flags on their pickups and i would guess they have absolutely no clue where that flag even comes from let alone that they have ever been south of the mason-dixon.

Kind of sad to me since i was transplanted here to BFE from the city of Akron that had alot of diversity. I'm actually one of those city folk that married into the rednecks. I consider myself a wanna be hillbilly just lack the hills... but i get along with pretty much anyone - even more so if they have a fishing rod in their hand.

 

[Hawnjigs]

Funny, the word "Hayseed" just popped up in my mind? - Who does that refer to?

I notice that you mainland guys are reluctant to mention racial nicknames - is it that sensitive an issue out your way?

Out here, we use nicknames more as decriptions, like Pake(Chinese), Buddhahead(Japanese), Borinki(Puerto Rican), Haole(White), Popolo(Black), Manong(Filipino male), Yobo(Korean) comes to mind right now. Rarely, they are used as insults in anger situations often preceded with the F word adjective. Maybe, because the non-whites were in the same plantation labor struggle to survive, there is a traditional comraderie & cooperation between cultures. Also maybe, out of respect for being indigenous, Hawaiian is just that.

A funny one is that local Japanese refer to mainland Japanese as "Kotonk", something about the hollow sound of a conked head...

 

[SaltyBuckster]

Yea,racial slurrs are a no no.Heck,ever since I was a kid growing up it was frowned upon.Even worst now.

 

[Radtexan]

I notice that you mainland guys are reluctant to mention racial nicknames - is it that sensitive an issue out your way?

That is a very good observation Hawn.....It has become almost taboo to use them...They were renamed Racial Slurs several years back,and its now ok for all the other races to use them about the Caucasians, but we are strictly forbidden to utter anything that could be remotely considered derogatory...


<<<<<hayseed

 

[JSC]

X2 what RT said

 

[AtticaFish]

...Pake(Chinese), Buddhahead(Japanese), Borinki(Puerto Rican), Haole(White), Popolo(Black), Manong(Filipino male), Yobo(Korean)...

You have some creative names out there! "Hayseed" i picture Dorothy's brothers from Wizard of Oz. "Hick" is another common name around here, kind of a deragatory name for a redneck - if that is possible! haha.

It is crazy here... to the point where half the time i have no clue what is considered correct to say, maybe it is different geographicaly across the country - kind of like the whole pop, soda, coke thing. For instance it could be black, african american or colored (not to mention the other frowned upon ones) and i have no clue what i would say if forced to make the decision being in a crowded room with eyes and ears upon me.

My Grandmother used to crack me up.... if she had to mention something about a black person, she would refer to them as colored and would say the whole sentence out loud until she got to that word.... then she would whisper colored very quietly .....and continue with the sentence. She would do this in private as well. Same thing with anyone she considered asian. I guess it is engrained into me just to avoid any racial reference if it is at all possible.

 

[CrappieHappy]

hmm, i think it's different everywhere. I hear the young ones(all races) call each other the "N" word all the time. usually followed by Fool......

I am from the Mutt-mutt tribe as well. cajun, indian, french...... the list continues

 

[crappiecripplerjigs]

I am 1/16 Cherokee, 1/2 Hayseed, and 11/32 Honkie. Do the math.... What would that be called? =}

 

[redman]

My wife used the term Aggie to describe some one of our neighbors. I ask her whats a Aggie was. Her answer was a Country Bumpkin one step below a redneck. A very, very ignorant person. In talking to my Cajun Neighbor Mr. Maurice. He said that he had heard the term and believe it came about because or the Texas A & M, UT beginnings. IF you were smart you went to UT if you were not bright you went to A & M. Thus a Aggie was a not so bright person, ignorant, a fool.

CH, TF and others. The U.S.A. is a true melting pot. Truth be known we are all members of the Mutt Mutt tribe. When I started school there were several kids in our class who didn't know or couldn't speak English. German was there first language. And this was back in 1955. There parents were second generation Americans. These kid spoke German at home but learned English at the Public School.They can still speak better German that most Third year German students.

Redman

 

[Hawnjigs]

Never heard the expression "Mutt Mutt tribe" here, kinda similar to our "Poi Dog".

Are you guys saying that using racial nicknames is now considered seriously insulting or even illegal?

 

[toadfrog]

Actually I coined the phrase mutt mutt tribe . I got tired of answering questions about heritage since I grew up in a family that was not blood kin and consumed by ignorant predjudices . I take into consideration what people do , what there intentions are or what is going to be an economical social impact on the future . There is a Cherokee word for cockroach . Wouldn't do any good to type you couldn't pronounce it . But it is used to describe people who are less than half indian . Never heard it used by anyone under the age of 50 . I have often wondered how people got started with all the nick names . But in the end I hope to just call folks FRIEND .

 

[redman]

Only if you are a hard leftest, a statest, a liberal , Communist or Socialist. We have been using nicknames to type cast ethnic groups in the USA for a long time. There are just some places that it is more acceptable like where your living. I know that deep in the Hood they think nothing of using racial slurs all day long. Since there is very few people to talk to our here in the swamp we just don't pay much attention to it. I get more upset with profanity than racial slurs or nicknames. Profanity just show lack of a good education and any sense of class.

Redman