If you spent the summertime cuttin' up logs for the winter, you could tell everyone to kiss your a$$. David Allen Coe style

If you can't burn garbage and raise hogs in your back yard, you ain't living country.
If you got internet in your house and a grocery store within 10 miles, you ain't living country.
If you gotta drive to your barn, you ain't living country.
If you can't shoot a deer out your back door, you ain't living country.
If your cell phone has more than two bars of service, you ain't living country.
If you can vote for a mayor, or city council, you ain't living country.
If you make a round trip to "town" under an hour, you ain't living country.

yall can say what u want but I still believe it is about the massive amount of money the counties and state make from tickets for baiting. The county or city where the ticket is written gets a cut of the ticket and some really need the money.

I understand your point, but I don't think you are understanding mine. My point is that it's my right as an American to throw out corn on my land, and any infringement of that right is something I hope would be unacceptable to all of us. Nobody "allows" supplemental feeding; it's just one of the basic rights that goes along with private ownership of land and has nothing to do with deer hunting or any sort of hunting.

Hunting over bait is a separate issue, and I really don't care one way or another in regards to hunting deer.

It used to be understood that if you were putting out feed on a tract of land then you couldn't hunt on it. It's the recent "clarification" of the word "area" that has made it hard to understand. I wish that they hadn't done that; it should have been the job of the legislature.

Real country is having multiple family members missing multiple teeth………having at least two uncles that are loud as hell and ignorant as the day is long…..using words that don’t even exist …….Real country is watching your grandad sit at the table in a pair of Liberty overalls and eat a sammich that’s nothing but a tongue hanging out between two slices of bread……or listening to your drunk uncle tell you about the best way to cook a turtle……Real county is your mom telling about seeing chickens under the house through the wood slats as a kid, sleeping with two other sisters under 20 lbs of cover cause there wasn’t much heat…….Real country is having a grandmother who knits and dips Bruton snuff and then puts it on your bee stings…….Real country is having at least 2 or more family members that grow weed, been to prison, and kill deer by any means necessary………..

I got ALL that covered. Most of it by myself. I am the loud, drunk uncle with missing teeth, who cooks turtles and tongues. And I won't comment on the weed and deer killing.

Very little of the money stays in the county. Most goes to Montgomery...

Yall subdivision folks lost me when you started talking about it being a good environment for your kids. If you were ever country folk, it got boring or inconvenient so you moved to a place with more "stuff" to do or people around. When you started forgetting all that country is when you messed up to start with. The more you ramble on about big country living in the city the more you prove my point. About as country as that stuff theyre playing on the radio these days.takes all kinds though to make a world. But I dont think country gives a crap about keeping up with the jonses. Just step back and take a look at whats really going on. Or maybe think about it this weekend when youre out at "the farm".

I didnt mean to get on here and run anybody down this morning and I apologize if I have. The past few years around me I have watched people move to greener pastures and old family land either be sold and divided or grow up and run down. Me and daddy used to ride around and see farms that have been let go and talk about when ole mr. So and so used to work so hard to keep that place up, what ever happened to his kids anyway? Subdivisions are going up all around and the people moving in are city folk who have had enough of that environment. Trouble is they bring the city with them and my hometown is looking more and more like one of them other places. Im watching a lifestyle slip away and trying to save a little of it for my kids to enjoy. This is a pretty touchy subject for me and again I apologize if I have offended anyone bt telling it like it is.

No offense here but mine live the best of both worlds

None taken. Hope I didnt offend you. Just expressing my opinion.

Hahaha nah. I don't get offended

I’d much rather my kids have friends to hang it with in the summer and after school. My kids spend more time outside than most “country” kids because they have friends to do stuff with. Last time I checked I wasn’t keeping up with the Jones’s or anyone else. Just because I don’t live in the middle of 40 acres I’m not “country enough”? Having a family farm makes me “fake country” Did you ever stop to think we could have probably sold our “fake country farm” to a developer for a neighborhood? We choose to keep that piece of land in the family so we have a place to go “practice being country”

Putting my kids in the best available schools and giving them an opportunity to grow up in a place where they have a lot of friends and can play outside with them trumps me moving to the farm.

You have a warped sense of reality.

Nobody said it was bad, just don't say you are country if you ain't country. I ain't country like outback's hillbilly ass but I was as a kid, drunk peddlin prison uncles and all.

This one has some potential………

Aint yall got nothing better to do than argue about who is country? Newsflash, no matter where they live, most Alabama folks are considered country hicks by real " city folk" who live in New York City, Chcago, Seattle, etc.

purely anecdotal, but growing up we lived in the Memphis Metro Area and we had a family "farm" about an hour east of Memphis. As a whole, the kids that grew up in the "country" stayed in significantly more trouble than anyone I knew that grew up in the city. Particularly with drug use and "petty crime" stuff. I attribute it to having less to do and getting bored. I feel like I and my cousins got the best of both worlds - we lived "in the city" but got to spend countless weekends "in the country".

Not to mention their "obsession" with farm animals