if we never acted like rednecks?

I am now a sledneck. I will not grow a mullet. I will get drunk on horsepower and two-cycle exhaust. Out of the way hippies.

if the bad times were all that we had?

Six months. Half a year. A lifetime. Things have changed, then changed again. Past changes will be left where they belong. Future changes will be televised. Rock and Roll.