Harvey H. Jackson: Looking for the Redneck Riviera | AnnistonStar.com

Harvey H. Jackson: Looking for the Redneck Riviera | AnnistonStar.com: "Between 1941 and the late 1970s the Alabama coast and the Florida Panhandle was transformed from that string of little fishing villages into the 'Redneck Riviera' — a vacation destination of Southern families and the playground for folks who wanted something a little more exciting than 'Goofy Golf.'

Then, thanks to hurricanes and hustlers, the 'Redneck Riviera' was transformed into a land of the 'Condo culture,' fern bars, bourgeois bohemians, coffee shops, and snowbirds — a land where respectability was the rule and redneckery was discouraged, where the developer was king and the dissenter was marginalized."