Anonymous wrote:My In-laws are lets just say...sophisticated rednecks. They have blue color roots, support trump, have no manners and are racist. They think school is a waste of time and eating healthy is just b.s. marketing.
I cringe so hard when I'm around them. How do I deal?

You just wait, eventually they are going to shoot themselves one day while putting the gun down for breakfast or have a double cheeseburger induced heart attack.

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Anonymous wrote:What's with people on this forum glorifying white trash. Stop romanticizing dirt.

HUGE diff. between blue collar dad, mom's a teacher, and the kids busting their ass to get into the state flagship U -vs- "blue collar" dad working dead-end job, mom working for minimum wage, kids are slackers with no future.

What's with your calling blue collar, minimum wage earners "dirt?"

Yes, I'm so glad we have PP here to draw the distinction for us so we know the difference between the trashy white blue collar people and the acceptable white blue collar people. I didn't realize there were only those two groups of blue collar people.

The difference is acknowledging that times are a changing; there isn't going to be a blue collar middle class for millennials. Barely a fraction of blue collar jobs even exist anymore. Middle class blue collar families that are on the ball really push their kids in school - they become engineerings, accountants, nurses, maybe lawyers here and there. White trash blue collar families don't really give a shit about books, education, etc. - their kids will be deadbeat drains on the economy.

We actually have a trades skills gap. Its well documented. We won't see an entire class of people living middle class on blue collar salaries but we WILL see a smaller number living on higher wages than prior blue collar classes. The rest will go to lower paying service jobs sadly.

If my kid is "eh" about school I will 100% encourage him to go to trade school, save, invest, work in his industry and own his own company- our plumber has a paid off house in our neighborhood (about 600K), cash. I have 2 degrees from good unis and am applying to $50K a year jobs puttering around basically.

I hate when people on this forum talk about blue collar workers like we're all redneck, poorly educated Republicans from the south. My DH is a unionized tradesman. I'm a bartender. Neither of us have degrees. We are blue collar. We are liberal, life long Democrats. We live in DC. Stop stereotyping us.

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Anonymous wrote:What's with people on this forum glorifying white trash. Stop romanticizing dirt.

HUGE diff. between blue collar dad, mom's a teacher, and the kids busting their ass to get into the state flagship U -vs- "blue collar" dad working dead-end job, mom working for minimum wage, kids are slackers with no future.

What's with your calling blue collar, minimum wage earners "dirt?"

Yes, I'm so glad we have PP here to draw the distinction for us so we know the difference between the trashy white blue collar people and the acceptable white blue collar people. I didn't realize there were only those two groups of blue collar people.

The difference is acknowledging that times are a changing; there isn't going to be a blue collar middle class for millennials. Barely a fraction of blue collar jobs even exist anymore. Middle class blue collar families that are on the ball really push their kids in school - they become engineerings, accountants, nurses, maybe lawyers here and there. White trash blue collar families don't really give a shit about books, education, etc. - their kids will be deadbeat drains on the economy.

Are these two groups kinda like black people who act "white" and "thugs"?

OP I am appalled by your atrocious spelling and grammar.

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Anonymous wrote:What's with people on this forum glorifying white trash. Stop romanticizing dirt.

HUGE diff. between blue collar dad, mom's a teacher, and the kids busting their ass to get into the state flagship U -vs- "blue collar" dad working dead-end job, mom working for minimum wage, kids are slackers with no future.

What's with your calling blue collar, minimum wage earners "dirt?"

Yes, I'm so glad we have PP here to draw the distinction for us so we know the difference between the trashy white blue collar people and the acceptable white blue collar people. I didn't realize there were only those two groups of blue collar people.

The difference is acknowledging that times are a changing; there isn't going to be a blue collar middle class for millennials. Barely a fraction of blue collar jobs even exist anymore. Middle class blue collar families that are on the ball really push their kids in school - they become engineerings, accountants, nurses, maybe lawyers here and there. White trash blue collar families don't really give a shit about books, education, etc. - their kids will be deadbeat drains on the economy.

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Anonymous wrote:My In-laws are lets just say...sophisticated rednecks. They have blue color roots, support trump, have no manners and are racist. They think school is a waste of time and eating healthy is just b.s. marketing.
I cringe so hard when I'm around them. How do I deal?

Mine were college educated liberal white trash. They thought when my husband's feet hit the floor in the morning so should mine. If he worked, so should I. Democrats to the bone, they watched CNN ALL DAY LONG. Cheap as hell, crunchy before crunchy was in, rude like you wouldn't believe.

Now they're dead so I no longer have to fake liking them.

damn. they are dead and you are still grinding your axe.

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Anonymous wrote:My In-laws are lets just say...sophisticated rednecks. They have blue color roots, support trump, have no manners and are racist. They think school is a waste of time and eating healthy is just b.s. marketing.
I cringe so hard when I'm around them. How do I deal?

Assuming you love and admire your husband, give them more credit.

Why? The husband is successful IN SPITE OF their backwards ways, i.e an outlier.

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Anonymous wrote:What's with people on this forum glorifying white trash. Stop romanticizing dirt.

HUGE diff. between blue collar dad, mom's a teacher, and the kids busting their ass to get into the state flagship U -vs- "blue collar" dad working dead-end job, mom working for minimum wage, kids are slackers with no future.

What's with your calling blue collar, minimum wage earners "dirt?"

Yes, I'm so glad we have PP here to draw the distinction for us so we know the difference between the trashy white blue collar people and the acceptable white blue collar people. I didn't realize there were only those two groups of blue collar people.

Anonymous wrote:OP if you're going to go all out for the elitist thing, you need to work on your grammar. One is not embarrassed "of," one is embarrassed "by," or perhaps "for."

Yes, I would be embarrassed by OP's horrendous spelling and judgmental ways if I were related to her.

Anonymous wrote:What's with people on this forum glorifying white trash. Stop romanticizing dirt.

HUGE diff. between blue collar dad, mom's a teacher, and the kids busting their ass to get into the state flagship U -vs- "blue collar" dad working dead-end job, mom working for minimum wage, kids are slackers with no future.

What's with your calling blue collar, minimum wage earners "dirt?"

Anonymous wrote:My In-laws are lets just say...sophisticated rednecks. They have blue color roots, support trump, have no manners and are racist. They think school is a waste of time and eating healthy is just b.s. marketing.
I cringe so hard when I'm around them. How do I deal?

Assuming you love and admire your husband, give them more credit.

What's with people on this forum glorifying white trash. Stop romanticizing dirt.

HUGE diff. between blue collar dad, mom's a teacher, and the kids busting their ass to get into the state flagship U -vs- "blue collar" dad working dead-end job, mom working for minimum wage, kids are slackers with no future.

OP if you're going to go all out for the elitist thing, you need to work on your grammar. One is not embarrassed "of," one is embarrassed "by," or perhaps "for."

Are they bad people or just culturally different from you, OP? I can't tell whether you're a snob or rightfully offended by bad behavior or both. You might work on trying to find what you can appreciate about them and focus on that and let the rest go.