Please ask Publius what his hobbies are.
I think you will find he has an interesting recreational perspective that qualifies him to critique gun issues.
As for the South, please remember that Publius lives in Florida.
For that matter, I know people who say "howdy" and "cain't", and I live in Pennsylvania. We don't all sound like Quakers and Amish around here, you know. "Redneck" started out as regional, but it's not that way anymore. It's been a national phenomenon ever since country music hit the big time.