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People always ask 'Why is Bubba different?' They're just trying to figure it out.

Because I lived in construction towns, we had a lot of workers who came from the South. They were all white, and, sorry to say, a number of them were pretty redneck.

You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.

Even with the fact that I grew up in North Carolina, 'Jim Rash' just screams 'Southern boy.'

It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.

The fact that that's the difference between Mexicans and Cubans is pronounced. It's so immediately recognizable, the way a Cuban speaks, the way a Cuban moves the hands.

I have cousins in North Carolina who talk in that old Southern style of 'yakking,' if you will. All the black men in my life when I was a boy talked that way, and I love that kind of talk.

W a gang member, and especially in a Latino gang, gets jumped in, and then he's given a name, and he has that name forever, but it's not so much the name as being called by name.

To me, redneck is a sense of self and a way of life.