Article: Here come all the redneck NASCAR jokes

Brace yourself. A tidal wave of redneck jokes is on the horizon.

How could it be otherwise, given last week's report that a NASCAR team has offered Barak Obama a sponsorship deal?

Forget the fact that NASCAR sanctions races all around the country, from Miami and Las Vegas to New Hampshire and Michigan.

It also sanctions races at tracks all over the South - and that, coupled with the sport's historic ties to Appalachian moonshiners and mountain men, has led to an entrenched stereotype in which NASCAR fans are dumb, white and Southern.

Their wives and girlfriends have big hair, often overly bleached or dyed a peculiar shade of red.

Their children say "I seen" and "I taken" and call their ...

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