Any Redneck-American losing his sense of humor or becoming a self-hating loser will be expelled from the ethnic group and forced to move to the Northeast.
But surely you can’t be so harsh as to banish him to the Northeast. He might end up liking it there, and then there’s no hope. Why not send him to the Northwest, in case he snaps out of it? That way, if he doesn’t, at least he can move to Portland where he’ll be among his own kind. But if he does, he can buy a few acres in the woods, start wearing flannel shirts and wielding a chainsaw, and eventually come back to himself.