Southern Kansas, Wichita area is his home region. Wichita would not have been all that large a place in the 30s and 40s when he was growing up. So yea, some folks might call him a Redneck, and parts of Kansas, especially the south and east, do have a certain "southern" flavor, even though Kansas was part of the Union, not the Confederacy. Google "Bloody Kansas".
Interestingly Stanley Armor's father was "Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham" and his brother is a junior. Maybe Great grandpa wrote the poem, or even Stanley Armor himself? RWE Dunham is listed as "cafe owner; auto mechanic; tooling dept. of Boeing Aircraft". He was born about the same time as my Grandfather, but my Grampa outlived him by 23 years.
Well, that part is close enough to Oklahoma....oh I better not go there. Having attended the Redneck Day Festival in Mangum, OK, oh yeah they would be drinking likker out of a jelly jar just we did in South Georgia. I was about 8 or 9 and got into some untaxed alcoholic beverage that was in a neighbor’s fridge. Thought it was water. Didn’t taste like water but I was taught not to complain or be rude, so I just drank up the whole jar and refilled it with tap water and hushed my mouth.
Needless to say it soon became apparent there was something wrong with me.
parsy, who remembers that day, or at least parts of it