Why is there a connection between NASCAR and rednecks?

Question

dont get me wrong, i like nascar a little, but i am not a redneck.
why are so many of the fans rednecks?

Answer 1

Well being a redneck from Tn. myself, What's not to like Fast cars crashing, cold beer, hot wings, redneck women half dressed, at the track...........I Love Nascar.........#20

Answer 2

NASCAR was born, raised, and became huge in the south. NASCAR's birth was deep in the North Carolina mountains, when bootleggers were running moonshine down to the "metropolitan" cities. NASCAR's adolescense was spent on the beaches of Daytona, when a bunch of "good 'ol boys" would take their hotrods out on the beach.

If you are at all interested in NASCAR and intrigued about the history behind the phenomonon that it has become, I strongly suggest that you read "The Wildest Ride: A History of NASCAR (or How a Bunch of Good Ol' Boys Built a Billion-Dollar Industry out of Wrecking Cars)" by Joe Menzer.

I am a NASCAR fanatic - I was born and raised in the south, and have been called a "hillbilly" or a "redneck" more times that I can count - and I don't care. I am college educated, have all my teeth, and didn't marry anyone within my gene pool.

NASCAR and rednecks are associated because that is all that you see on TV - the cameras pick the loudest, drunkest, and most attention grabbing individuals to put on camera. Unfortunately, most of the time, it is the man wearing no shirt, face painted, missing a few teeth, and wearing a cardboard Budweiser case on his head. Just keep in mind that NASCAR is a multi-billion dollar industry and growing everyday - there are a whole lot of highly educated and intellegent individuals who count down the days to Daytona and live for Sunday afternoons.

Hope this helps and provides some insight.

Answer 3

Everyone is right.
If you think about it, back then a redneck is the only one that would be just CRAZY enough to actually want to disconnect one of there front brakes so they could turn harder with a trunk full of illegal booze with the Fed's hot on there tale and I love that. There's a certain feeling of pride in that. Alot of people complain about all the oval's but it was the back road's of the south were drivers honed there skills on some of most treacherous road rally type conditions in do or die circumstances. Only a redneck had the guts to pull that off.

At first, the racing was just a way to supplement there moonshine income in a legitimate way. At a few races, after promoters took off with ALL the money while the race was still running, Bill France saw the need to make it a legitimate organization with guaranteed prize money if the sport was to survive.

I don't consider myself a redneck but if you wanna call me that.........COOL!

Answer 4

Short simple answer it was run in the south for years, the stereotype of southern white people are that they are toothless inbred rednecks. That was the fan base for Nascar up until the last decade or so, and almost all Northern drivers in the series get respect, ie J. Gordon, T. Stewart, R. Newman, M. Kenseth get the picture.

Answer 5

Redneck, in modern usage, predominantly refers to a particular stereotype of people who may be found in many regions of the United States or Canada. Originally limited to Appalachia and the American South, and later the Ozarks and Rocky Mountains, this stereotype is now widespread in other states and the Canadian provinces. The word can be used either as a pejorative or as a matter of pride, depending on context.

Usage of the term "cracker" generally differs from "hick" and "hillbilly" because crackers reject or resist assimilation into the dominant culture, while hicks and hillbillies theoretically are isolated from the dominant culture. In this way, cracker culture is similar to redneck culture.

Because Nascar was established in the south....

And you have people like nascarsucs, aka F1is the best who thinks he is insulting us by calling us that. But, we are proud of who we are and what kind of racing we like. So, its really only humor....

Answer 6

Because the sport started in the deep south, when moonshiners tried to outrun the Law.

Barefoot Tex

Answer 7

NASCAR started with bootleggers and all bootleggers are rednecks!!!!