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In reply to the discussion: Here's what the inmates did for Sandusky on his first night in jail: [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)lacking in couth, taste, style, city ways, or what-have-you.
It's part of why Bill Clinton, not rich, certainly, the son of a momma who never shied away from bright clothing and makeup and had a rich love life and liked to bet on the ponies; who lived in a trailer for a brief time, who had his own issues with his "hard dog to keep on the porch" roving eye, was called "Bubba" scornfully by the GOP in an effort to denigrate him for his heritage...but the real working class "Bubbas" embraced the guy, rejected the scorn, co-opted the nickname that they used lovingly in daily life, neutralized the GOP mockery, and flipped it to the other meaning--Bill Clinton, mah bruddah!
I am certainly no expert on prison culture having never gone to jail or having had anyone terribly close to me end up in the pokey, either, I am also no expert on southern culture, despite having lived south of the Mason-Dixon a few times in my life, but I must say, I have never heard that "Bubba" nickname applied in that fashion, as a "nickname" for a person who engages in prison assault. The late-night comedians and the tasteless frat boy films, when they delve into that unsavory territory, usually portray such an individual as an ugly, steroidal, unintelligent, brutal and glaring giant named "Tiny," or something "obviously ironic" like that.