re: Which SEC fanbase is most redneck

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I honestly don't think of any fan base as being redneck.

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From my experiance it is a tie between LSU and Bama, but I wont project that to the entire fanbase.

In da 'sip most MSU and OM fans are grads, LSU and Bama seem to divide the rednecks, white trash, and hood rats between them along I-55.

Ride through any trailer park or hood and all you will see is LSU or Bama stickers depending on which side of the state you are on, hit the suburbs and it is pretty much OM and MSU.

OM does pick up a few due to the flag and history but those are a different breed of cat.

Fair enough

Let’s just say what most people think about the University of Alabama. Its football pursuits justify its identity with an uneducated backward white population and a symbolic link to the Lost Cause they hold so dear. Much in the same way as D.W. Griffith’s movie The Birth of a Nation encouraged the worst elements of southern society a hundred years ago; Bama football still encourages a similar backward behavior from a large segment of its fan base today. The Crimson Tide football team is an outlet for their lunatic fringe fans and gives them a venue to be recognized.

Bama fans overestimate the “esteem” of being the last college football factory and unwittingly rob themselves of the very reverence they crave by their boorish and obsessive behavior. They defend the indefensible and deny the undeniable. Their unhealthy emotional stake in Bama football substitutes for their own lack of personal acknowledgement and respect. Hence the ludicrous and totally unmerited claim of several Bama national football championships. They have become avatars of the worst behavior and bear witness to a complicated legacy of an earlier segregated society.

The question is: has Chronic Encephalopathy (CTE) not only affected ex-football players but also metaphorically speaking an entire university and its fan base? These other football victims are driven by extreme emotion and delusions to commit unconscionable often violent actions (Harvey Updyke, Michelle Pritchett, John Phillips, Brian Downing, and many others). Even Nick Saban contributes to the lunacy by comparing losing a football game to the Pearl Harbor and 911 tragedies when thousands of Americans lost their lives.

Similar to the victims of CTE, the University of Alabama’s misplaced priorities of gold-plated football fluff over economic substance harms the state’s citizens with the false bravado of football. History reveals that the holy crusade of Bama football acts as an impediment to social and economic progress. For instance the University of Alabama administration allows white-only sororities to continue their policy of banning African-American females from membership. Ironic that most of the precocious Bama “student athletes” are African-American but their daughters and sisters can be excluded from university sororities.

It is well known that when a university simply reflects the attitudes of its football fans it is no longer a university in the true meaning of the word. Football has stalled the University of Alabama’s transformation into a modern university with intellectual, aesthetic or humanistic concerns. The reality is that the NCAA would actually do the University of Alabama a favor by handing down the Death Penalty for its football team. Then perhaps finally its faculty, alumni and students might appreciate the scholarship and learning that mark a university with intellectual fiber and integrity.

Until then “roll tide” is the shameful apology for those either naive or without individual self-respect.

Selah

He’s trying to sneak in a Longhorn game (cocks not glocks!)

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In da 'sip most MSU and OM fans are grads

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Completely false. The vast majority of your fans, like every P5 school, did not attend the school they root for

When I went to Auburn I would have put Auburn in the mix, but the student body has changed so much. Majority of the students come from Birmingham and the Atlanta areas. Atlanta is polar opposite of "redneck".

seriously bro how many people do you think would want to bandwagon msstate. Most our fans are grads. the only bandwagon fans in mississippi would be the hardcore states rights advocates that couldn't get into college that jump on the OM bandwagon because of the confederate battle flag. Most of them have jumped ship because they have abandoned all those symbols

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Have you ever been to these places and seen the fanbases haha?

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This. It's all about actually going to the town/campus and seeing the environment.

Kentucky, imo, is one of the 3 least "redneck" fanbases in the league. But if you ever spend a decent amount of time in or around the Cincinnatti / N.Kentucky Airport area you would swear UK is the trashiest place in the South. Instead, actually going to Lexington is one of the best experiences in the SEC.

Same with Arkansas. If you judged the place based on the stops you make on the way, you would just turn around and never make it to Fayetteville, and you'd miss an awesome part of the country

Someone in the household that is a graduate would be a better way to calculate it. You know some alumni have kids that come with them to the games that aren't old enough to be in college yet.