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Looking for a set of players that are interested in roleplaying a redneck in Sandy Shores and even around the outskirts of the Bay area! If you are thinking "What is a redneck?" Take a look at the Guide here.
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THIS THREAD WILL FOLLOW THE DEVELOPEMENT OF BUTCH MURPHY.
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REDNECKS ONCE UPON A TIME In America, the word redneck entered the public consciousness in the early 1800s. For nearly two hundred years, it was used for: poor, Southern (important! Not South America, but the Southern states of the United States of America) For whites, it was used by people from the better class to refer to the poorer inhabitants of rural settings. It was a pejorative term for farmers who supported populist reforms. For white Presbyterians living in North Carolina to communists for unionized white coal miners (in West Virginia, Northern Kentucky, Western Pennsylvania, Southern Illinois, and Indiana) to any white racist, regardless of class status or birthplace These are all fairly derogatory descriptions and are probably what most people think of when they hear the word redneck. Originally, the term was used for red-neck farmers working in agriculture, whose necks turned red after working long hours. In addition, it was also used, for example, against Southerners who wore red scarves at political meetings, who claimed that the scarf was a badge of class pride for the county's populist voters. Interesting fact: the black Southerners used to make fun of the poor white country people (white country people = white trash, crackheads, and peckerwoods). REDNECK ELEGANCE In the 1970s, it became fashionable to be a redneck. During and after Carter's presidency, the word redneck chic came into the public consciousness. In the late 1980s, a salesman working in Jackson, Mississippi, distinguished redneck elegance from those who live in a trailer somewhere in Rankin County, in the area of: "There are the classy rednecks who just mow the lawn in the back garden, wear designer jeans, and go out to eat at Shoney's once every three weeks." POSTMODERN REDNECKS We are in the 1990s, where the newly-exploded country music craze is raging with stars such as Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, or even Sawyer Brown, whose video clips feature rich, wealthy "rednecks" and do many, many things that are not redneck-worthy at all. Such a person, for example, is Phil Robertson, known from the Duck Dynasty, who said the following about postmodern rednecks: "These people mostly resemble educated, white, middle- or upper-middle-class North Louisiana guys like the ones I (and most of the Duck Dynasty crew) went to school with. These rednecks, who wear camouflage, dropped out of school just to shoot deer and ducks all day, and who go everywhere with quads. Nowadays, these are the "rednecks" who post on social media about their family, the Grand Canyon, Disneyland, and themselves posing next to a shot deer." ROLEPLAY That's enough of the history; let's get to the essence of the topic: how to roleplay a redneck character. As you can read in the lines above, the definition of a poor, farming peasant stood its ground in the 1800s; in 2021, the approach is completely different, but the word itself (REDNECK) is still just a label, a bad adjective. In order for you to realistically portray such a character, you must be aware of the basics, concepts, and events. Examples include the Confederacy, the American Civil War, past and present American politics, and American presidents and their views. As everywhere, uniqueness is the most important thing here. Your character can have a basic job found in every second redneck character, such as: Store employee (salesperson, stock loader, etc.) Gas station employee (salesman, salesman, etc.) Mechanic Farmer (not so common in Nevada) Truck driver Car racer (Nascar, Off-Road) However, in addition to basic, overworked work, your character should definitely have something unique. It can be a hobby, a profession, something we are very good at and I could list more. A few examples: Making music Drawing Gardening, other work around the house Hiking Motorcycling, car racing (as a hobby) Hunting Assembly (as a hobby) It is also important to mention that rednecks are also illiterate. They have phones and use social media just like you or me. They post, share experiences and comment. SOME INTERESTING THINGS, VIDEOS, MOVIES Redneck Games: Mudding Mudding is a famous competition among rednecks. People compete with each other in the mud to see who can get faster and farther with their pickup full of people in the muddy bed. Tug-of-war Tug of war is not everyday for rednecks either. They connect two cars or tractors with a rope and see whose vehicle is stronger and who can pull the other. Drinking Games Various drinking contests are also popular games among rednecks. Who drinks the most, the fastest and the rest. Mudpit belly flop The mudpit belly flop is a sport similar to synchronized jumping, redneck style. A pit is filled with muddy water and the contestants have to splash in the mud with the best stunt to win.
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Chaos Theory Lawrence "Larry" Marshall Many people spend their whole lives coloring between the lines. Their favorite ice cream flavor is vanilla, and they probably think a planned trip to a Manhattan art gallery constitutes the pinnacle of human spontaneity. Then there are people who march to the beat of their own drum, or claim to, at least. They make it a point to “be their authentic selves'' and post all about their perceived idiosyncrasies and antics on Facebrowser. Then there’s Larry Marshall. He doesn’t march to the beat of anyone’s drum, including his own. He is chaos theory incarnate, though he probably can’t spell “chaos” or “theory” or "incarnate," and couldn’t properly use any of those words in a sentence. Larry is the type of man who becomes more mysterious the longer you get to know him, not that many people get to know him for very long without becoming the collateral damage of his enigmatic hijinks. This is his story.
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The Dixie Mafia, or sometimes known as the Southern Mafia or Cornbread Mafia, is an American criminal organization made out of mainly white Protestant Anglo-Saxon Southerners based in the states under the Mason-Dixon line that began to organize in the 1960s in Biloxi, Mississippi. The Dixie Mafia, however, has its roots all the way back to the Whiskey Rebellion and the American Civil War where it gained a lot of popularity because they believed the federal government was oppressive, so they spread to wealthier areas of the South to make their criminal enterprise more powerful and used this as justification for their growth. Their activities were large and spread out so much across the nation that it was very hard for the authorities to pinpoint their locations. The mob is not your traditional mafia, they are not bound by family or a code of honor but by greed and a ruthlessness for money. The Dixie Mafia has one rule “ thou shall not snitch to the cops”. What a member of the Dixie Mafia said about the organization is that: “What makes them so dangerous is they don’t think, they just act. They don’t draw a line, everything is fair game.” After the gangs started to organize better and got in touch with the Chicago Outfit and the New Orleans crime families in the late 1960s, the group developed a reputation for conducting contract assassinations, especially against former members. Numerous individuals were shot to death by its members between the early 1960s and the late 1980s, when it was at its most violent. Most commonly, victims were killed because they had testified against other members or had threatened to do so. The Dixie Mafia's headquarters of operations was "The Strip" in Biloxi, Mississippi, and Mike Gillich, Jr. was the organization's unofficial but de facto leader. Gillich was protecting Kirksey McCord Nix, Jr. He was a prominent member of the Mob and Nix had ties to the Chicago Mob boss Sam Giancana through a guy named Darrel Ward based out of Clarksville, Texas. Ward was the one controlling bootlegging in the states of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi. Many Southern states kept the "dry laws" after Prohibition was lifted from federal law in 1933, giving bootleggers and mobsters the opportunity to continue their illegal profits and enterprises that were once so very popular during the late 1920s and early 1930s. The Dixie Mafia also had strong ties with New Orleans crime family boss Carlos Marcello. Marcello tolerated the presence of the good ol' boys in his area as long as they played out by his rules and respected him, some members carried out hits and debt collections for the New Orleans Outfit during this era. The organization also had strong ties with law enforcement, by the 1980s the lines were so blurry that the F.B.I. had no choice but to declare the entire Harrison County Sheriff's Office in Mississippi a criminal enterprise. The anything for a buck gang started to show it's cracks in the 1980s and finally collapsed in the mid-late 1990s from the height of their power, however that does not mean that the Dixie Mafia is dead, they are alive but their presence is not what it used to be. The Federal Bureau of Investigation started to crack down on these rednecks popping all over the South making as much money as possible as they can with their scams. According to an October 20, 1999 appeal from the United States District Court For the Southern District of Mississippi: "while serving a life sentence for murder at Angola State Penitentiary, Nix built a criminal empire from which he hoped to earn enough money to buy his way out of prison. Although he dabbled in insurance fraud and drug dealing, Nix’s primary money-making scheme was a 'lonely hearts' scam designed to defraud gay men. Nix and his prison syndicate would place personal advertisements in national gay-themed magazines. When men would respond to these ads, Nix or one of his associates would indicate that he was having financial difficulties and needed the respondent to wire money to a Nix associate outside prison. Nix acquired hundreds of thousands of dollars from this scam". Retired FBI Special Agent Keith Bell said about him: “For money, the sheriff and officers loyal to him would release prisoners from the county jail, safeguard drug shipments, and hide fugitives. Anything you can think of, they were involved in.” Kirksey McCord Nix, Jr being arrested in 1972 for the murder of Frank Corso What got the F.B.I's attention, however, was the multiple assassination attempts on Sheriff Bufford Pusser of McNairy County, Tennessee and the successful assassination of Pusser's wife. The story of Sheriff Bufford Pusser and why the Dixie Mafia and the State Line Mob wanted him dead was because Sheriff Pusser took an old school approach of trying to catch the Dixie Mafia in McNairy County. Pusser was a ruthless sheriff who killed multiple members of the Dixie Mafia without warrants or fair warnings, he also hurt their business a lot in the area, intimidating criminals, blew up moonshine stills and walked around with a gigantic wood homemade baseball and hit and destroyed everything he could with it to keep his county dry and free of criminals. In the following years, three suspects mysteriously died that were connected to Nix Junior. It is said that the killings were done by Sheriff Pusser in retaliation for the attempted assassination attempts on him and the failure of the corrupt courts failing to prosecute the would-be assassins. In 1974, however, Sheriff Bufford Pusser found his end as he crashed his highly modified Corvette into an embankment and the car caught fire, killing him instantly in the explosion. It is speculated that wrench monkeys sabotaged his steering mechanism and tire rods while it was parked at the County Fair. With the Sheriff out of the way, the Mob thought they could resume normal operations, but they were wrong however, Nix Jr's lawyer and ex-mayor of Biloxi, Pete Halat, stole his money and blamed it on his partner, Judge Vincent Sherry, and in 1987 had a judge assassinated while he was in prison, exposing the powers of the Dixie Mob, Nix Junior was moved to isolation for the rest of his life in prison. Sheriff Bufford Pusser armed with a M16 and a 1970 Oldsmobile 442 out to get the State Line Mob. The State Line Mob is a Dixie Mafia organization that operated on the Mississippi–Tennessee state line on U.S. Route 45 during the 1950s and 1960s and has engaged in similar activities to their counterpart brothers spread out all over the South. The previous organization owned and operated motels, restaurants and clubs in Mississippi and Tennessee, which this new counterpart that has established itself on Route 68 in Blaine County aims to do so as well under the name of " The County Line Mob". Control all the flow of money that goes up and down the old 68 county line Route, the leader of this new mob is Huckleberry Wallace, a thirty eight year old good ol' boy from the town of West Memphis, Arkansas who has ties with the Dixie Mafia down there, alongside with his Ambassadors (Chief Enforcers) Duke Jackson and Preston Boone. OOC SECTION: 1. The County Line Mob is a Dixie Mafia organization for American characters of Anglo-Saxon heritage based around Harmony and Route 68. We aim to portray a Dixie Mafia using the elements of old school while combining those of new and, if needed, add some from our own basket of ideas. 2. You need to request permission on our discord or forum PMs before you post a screenshot. 3. You need to give us Character Kill Permissions if you want to advance above the Local rank. Portrayal and character growth is something that we look after and is a must in our group. Members must hold themselves to a high standard and follow all GTA World rules at all times and must demonstrate that they possess a set of high roleplay capabilities and some knowledge about the history and how the Mob operates and what they are usually involved in. 4. The member must display a realistic character and not your stereotypical Billy Bob with blue jeans overall and toothpick and is required to do his research on how to accurately portray a Dixie Mafia member.
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Butch "Butchie" Murphy is a 41-year-old man. This is a citizen of Sandy Shores. In this thread we will see his daily life.
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Early life and family Born in 1967, Otis is part of a fairly large family born into lesser circumstances in the world. Otis was the middle child in a 6 child family, the Orville's lived down in Kentucky. 2 brothers and 3 sisters, Otis's family was fairly balanced. Suffering from the mental disorder ADHD, Otis's childhood was troublesome. He often found himself in trouble for petty theft, getting in small fights or disrupting events and classes. His childhood was fairly mundane, his family always struggled to get by however. At an early age his father had him work the fields of the family farm on the weekends, however after Otis failed to behave during his time on the farm he was sent him to do house chores with his mother. Education and work; Having failed to graduate any form of education back in 1994, Otis had attempted to find work in Los Santos to try gather as much work experience as he could. This however just amounted to Otis working behind the counter at the local liquor store. Failing to find any amount of success at his minimum wage job, Otis purchased a trailer in the emerging Sandy Shores, prime real estate for growing crops as its a short drive away from the local farmland. He yet again tried to find work here feeling like he had more experience to set himself apart, however the best job he was able to land was working behind a bar. But having to pay the rent of his trailer he stuck with the job hoping he would be able to network with the bars clients. However in 2007 the bar was closed due to the owners shady business practices. Otis once again living below the breadline decided to try his hand at what he new best, alcohol distribution. He founded a small company where anyone in the local trailer park could place orders with him and he'd go get the items requested. What made this popular was the don't ask, don't tell policy to who was placing the orders. Sadly once again this failed as the local authorities busted him for selling alcohol to a minor. Otis was sent to prison to serve a short 5 year sentence for his business practices. Once out of the local prison Otis decided to try his luck again, but instead of buying and distributing alcohol, he was going to brew it in the extension of his trailer. Of course not being any level of proficiency at this Otis's home-brewed shine was remarked as being sour and with a hellish burn, but this was what the locals wanted and business took off from there... ((Rest of the thread will be added when I have more time.))
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