I'm not sure exactly where the line is although if found it's probably not a straight line so it's mighty easy to cross. I think the other post had it right when it suggested that it got close when you said your rig looked pretty niffty and I think you were close when you mentioned practicality vs redneckicity. I do know that I've been told I crossed it on several occasions myself and it was usually when I did something that was "practical" but not really what most would call "common".
Some years back I had an Uncle that passed away. In helping clean up his place I was given an old school bus to use for storage. I needed the space but didn't really want to have the "looks" of an old bus sitting around so I decided to sit it behind a grove of cedars off to the left of my drive. The colors of the bus would have still stood out like a sore thumb so before putting it in place I decided a paint job was in order. I bought some forest green, tan, and black paint and proceeded to spray a nice camouflage pattern on the whole thing, windows included. When my sister pulled up and saw it her first words were, "Wayne, that's about the most redneck thing I think you've ever done". I explained the practicality of the paint job but still wasn't understood. She didn't know where I planned to set it so when she pulled in at my place later, after the bus had been placed I dared her to find it. She looked and never did see it util I pointed it out. Redneck or practical, my paint job worked and that's all that mattered.
You know I think I may have hit on something there. If it's practical, and works, and it's pretty then it's just "normal" to those that make a big deal out of looks. On the other hand if it's practical and works but may not be so pretty then it's probably gonna at least border on redneckicity in someone's eyes. The difference between us rednecks and them that aren't is we simply don't care a whole lot about how it looks as long as it works. Function over form vs form over function.
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