Real estate blogger names top 10 redneck cities

Oklahoma City is No. 3 on the list of redneck cities.

While some rural residents get labeled "rednecks" for their interests, looks, language and behavior, one writer says they can live anywhere and has come up with a way to determine which cities are the most redneck.

Natalie Grigson, writing for the real estate blog Movato, looked at eight key factors: Percent of population that didn’t complete high school; number of NASCAR race tracks close by; and the number per capita of Walmarts, gun and ammunition stores, taxidermists, cowboy-boot stores, country-music radio stations and repair shops for riding lawn mowers and tractors.

The formula labeled Atlanta as the most redneck U.S. city. Second was Kansas City, Mo., followed by Oklahoma City, Nashville, Tulsa, Fort Worth, Arlington, Tex. (between Fort Worth and Dallas), Sacramento, Cleveland, and Mesa, Ariz. (Read more) Cleveland? "That wouldn't have happened if Grigson had included race and voting patterns such as the McCain Belt, that swath of counties from Oklahoma to Pennsylvania that voted more strongly for John McCain in 2008 than George W. Bush in 2004," said Al Cross, director of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, which publishes The Rural Blog.