10 Places the Rednecks Run in North Carolina
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Anywhere else in America, redneck is a word people use to make you smaller. So let's take a drive through the North Carolina towns that earned it — with the real names, dates and addresses, from the Wilkes County speedway the moonshiners are said to have built to the fields, kettles and smokers where the badge still gets earned.
In Davidson County, Lexington is a town of under twenty thousand people, and at The Barbecue Center the coals sit three and a half to four feet below the pork shoulders, smoking for eight hours before anyone touches the meat. By the time the governor signed it in 2007, Lexington's festival was the official food festival of the Piedmont Triad — and not one inch further east. We get into the ham war with Smithfield, Virginia, where North Carolina took first and second place in uncooked ham, yet the town that can't call its ham Genuine Smithfield won the only ham war it ever fought.
There's the Olive Pickle Company, started in 1926 when a Lebanese immigrant named Shikrey Baddour saw local cucumbers going to waste, and the Mount Olive pickle that drops at seven o'clock in the evening. There's Pete Jones opening the Skylight Inn on July 8th, 1947, cooking whole hogs over wood, and the Capitol-dome replica the family put on the roof in 1984. Junior Johnson and the liquor cars. Jeff Gordon winning in front of more than sixty thousand people. The truck that became Grave Digger. The collard eating contest with a rule you've never seen anywhere else.
These are the North Carolina towns that earned the redneck name — at the fair, over the kettle and the smoker and the kiln — and once a town has earned it, it does not give it back.
💬 Which North Carolina town do you think earned the redneck badge most — and what did your family do there to earn it?
CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
1:54 The Party
9:29 Engines and Mud
13:47 The Ground
17:23 The Monuments
22:12 Chadbourn
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SOURCES
▸ Spivey's Corner (Sampson Co.): National Hollerin' Contest
▸ Mount Olive (Wayne/Duplin): NYE Pickle Drop
▸ Benson (Johnston): Mule Days
▸ Tabor City (Columbus): NC Yam Festival
▸ Smithfield (Johnston): Ham & Yam Festival
▸ Ayden (Pitt): Collard Festival + Skylight Inn
▸ Chadbourn (Columbus): NC Strawberry Festival
▸ Whiteville (Columbus): NC Pecan Harvest Festival
PHOTOS (via Wikimedia Commons, Flickr, Openverse): Jeremy Markovich (CC BY-NC-SA); Mike Kalasnik (CC BY-SA, CC BY-SA 2.0); CANDID1PHOTO (CC BY-NC-ND); Mike Kalasnik from Charlotte, USA (CC BY-SA 2.0); NCDOTcommunications (CC BY 4.0); Glenn Courtney (CC BY-SA 2.0); Ryan Segraves (CC BY-NC); ClumsyBiggun (CC BY-SA 4.0); CavsFan45 (CC BY 4.0); Dennis Brown (CC BY 3.0); Wally Gobetz (CC BY-NC-ND); Chun Yip So (CC BY 2.0); Kenneth C. Zirkel (CC BY-SA 4.0); Rob Friesel (CC BY-NC-SA); Dbtaylor1959 (CC BY-SA 4.0); Adam Fagen (CC BY-NC-SA); Allen Forrest (CC BY-NC-ND); FoodBankCENC.org (CC BY); Zach Catanzareti Photo (CC BY 2.0); Ed Ivanushkin (CC BY-SA 2.0); Sicnag (CC BY 2.0); cole24_ (CC BY-SA); Tony Alter from Newport News, USA (CC BY 2.0); Silver Dovelet (CC BY-SA 4.0); Jimmy Emerson, DVM (CC BY-NC-ND); Teddy Bullard (CC BY-SA 4.0); Gerry Dincher (CC BY-SA, CC BY-SA 2.0); Karen (CC BY-NC-ND); Elizabeth Thomsen (CC BY-NC-SA); darwin.wins (CC BY-NC-ND); Patrick Reynolds (CC BY-SA 4.0); Teelaklaatu (CC BY-SA 3.0); Stef Rae (CC BY-SA 4.0); Curtis Gregory Perry (CC BY-NC-SA); Harrison Keely (CC BY 4.0). Public domain / CC0: Ammodramus, Carol M. Highsmith, Ceeren, Department of Agriculture. Forest Service. 7/1/1905, DiscoA340, Indy beetle, Library of Congress, OptimumPx, Smithsonian Institution, State Archives of North Carolina Raleigh, NC, USDAgov, Warren LeMay, Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States, Wiley for Wake.
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10 Places the Rednecks Run in North Carolina
North Carolina Unearthed
320 views
👉 Tell me which place in your county belongs on the next list — and subscribe, the next ten are already being read: @northcarolinaunearthed
Anywhere else in America, redneck is a word people use to make you smaller. So let's take a drive through the North Carolina towns that earned it — with the real names, dates and addresses, from the Wilkes County speedway the moonshiners are said to have built to the fields, kettles and smokers where the badge still gets earned.
In Davidson County, Lexington is a town of under twenty thousand people, and at The Barbecue Center the coals sit three and a half to four feet below the pork shoulders, smoking for eight hours before anyone touches the meat. By the time the governor signed it in 2007, Lexington's festival was the official food festival of the Piedmont Triad — and not one inch further east. We get into the ham war with Smithfield, Virginia, where North Carolina took first and second place in uncooked ham, yet the town that can't call its ham Genuine Smithfield won the only ham war it ever fought.
There's the Olive Pickle Company, started in 1926 when a Lebanese immigrant named Shikrey Baddour saw local cucumbers going to waste, and the Mount Olive pickle that drops at seven o'clock in the evening. There's Pete Jones opening the Skylight Inn on July 8th, 1947, cooking whole hogs over wood, and the Capitol-dome replica the family put on the roof in 1984. Junior Johnson and the liquor cars. Jeff Gordon winning in front of more than sixty thousand people. The truck that became Grave Digger. The collard eating contest with a rule you've never seen anywhere else.
These are the North Carolina towns that earned the redneck name — at the fair, over the kettle and the smoker and the kiln — and once a town has earned it, it does not give it back.
💬 Which North Carolina town do you think earned the redneck badge most — and what did your family do there to earn it?
CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
1:54 The Party
9:29 Engines and Mud
13:47 The Ground
17:23 The Monuments
22:12 Chadbourn
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
SOURCES
▸ Spivey's Corner (Sampson Co.): National Hollerin' Contest
▸ Mount Olive (Wayne/Duplin): NYE Pickle Drop
▸ Benson (Johnston): Mule Days
▸ Tabor City (Columbus): NC Yam Festival
▸ Smithfield (Johnston): Ham & Yam Festival
▸ Ayden (Pitt): Collard Festival + Skylight Inn
▸ Chadbourn (Columbus): NC Strawberry Festival
▸ Whiteville (Columbus): NC Pecan Harvest Festival
PHOTOS (via Wikimedia Commons, Flickr, Openverse): Jeremy Markovich (CC BY-NC-SA); Mike Kalasnik (CC BY-SA, CC BY-SA 2.0); CANDID1PHOTO (CC BY-NC-ND); Mike Kalasnik from Charlotte, USA (CC BY-SA 2.0); NCDOTcommunications (CC BY 4.0); Glenn Courtney (CC BY-SA 2.0); Ryan Segraves (CC BY-NC); ClumsyBiggun (CC BY-SA 4.0); CavsFan45 (CC BY 4.0); Dennis Brown (CC BY 3.0); Wally Gobetz (CC BY-NC-ND); Chun Yip So (CC BY 2.0); Kenneth C. Zirkel (CC BY-SA 4.0); Rob Friesel (CC BY-NC-SA); Dbtaylor1959 (CC BY-SA 4.0); Adam Fagen (CC BY-NC-SA); Allen Forrest (CC BY-NC-ND); FoodBankCENC.org (CC BY); Zach Catanzareti Photo (CC BY 2.0); Ed Ivanushkin (CC BY-SA 2.0); Sicnag (CC BY 2.0); cole24_ (CC BY-SA); Tony Alter from Newport News, USA (CC BY 2.0); Silver Dovelet (CC BY-SA 4.0); Jimmy Emerson, DVM (CC BY-NC-ND); Teddy Bullard (CC BY-SA 4.0); Gerry Dincher (CC BY-SA, CC BY-SA 2.0); Karen (CC BY-NC-ND); Elizabeth Thomsen (CC BY-NC-SA); darwin.wins (CC BY-NC-ND); Patrick Reynolds (CC BY-SA 4.0); Teelaklaatu (CC BY-SA 3.0); Stef Rae (CC BY-SA 4.0); Curtis Gregory Perry (CC BY-NC-SA); Harrison Keely (CC BY 4.0). Public domain / CC0: Ammodramus, Carol M. Highsmith, Ceeren, Department of Agriculture. Forest Service. 7/1/1905, DiscoA340, Indy beetle, Library of Congress, OptimumPx, Smithsonian Institution, State Archives of North Carolina Raleigh, NC, USDAgov, Warren LeMay, Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States, Wiley for Wake.
MUSIC: "Magic Forest", "Man Down", "Ossuary 7 - Resolve", "River of Io", "Scissors", "When The Wind Blows", "Chee Zee Caves V2" — Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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