Do most white guys in Alabama have their hair cut like the guys on Two-A-Days?
I don’t think it’s a Southern thing, I think it’s an age thing. I have tons of family who live in Alabama and none of the guys have hair like that, except maybe one who falls in that age range. My cousins up here where I live (Boston) who are high school age have kind of wacky puffy hair. Not as brushed as the guys on that show, but more Shaun Cassidy-looking than teenage guys have looked in a long time. Judging from my 16 yr old cousin’s MySpace page, a lot of his friends have similar hair. The Two-A-Days guys is the weirdest looking though.
I grew up in Alabama (I live in Seattle now) and I can attest that yes… these haircuts are very common among white males in high shcool/college throughout most of Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia. Most “guys” in the south — by “guys” I mean good Southern men/boys who pride themselves on not pampering themselves but enjoy being men’s men — use very little, if any “product” such as hair gel. So, we grow it semi-long and comb it just out of our eyesight. Why? I dunno… but it’s normal to us. The girls loooove it. It is most commonly referred to as the “Frat Boy Hair” as the term “Frat Boy” in AL/MS/GA is not a negative term… but a term that brings an image of a Southern gentleman in training. We know it looks a little weird to you guys/gals. But then again, your hairstyles look a little weird to us. [Also, on a side note: Don’t let Two-A-Days fool you… Hoover High School is not the “backwoods, small town” city MTV portray’s it as. It’s one of the most expensive places to live in
I live in Alabama and I think i know the haircut you’re talking about (the MTV site is a bitch for me; can’t get anything useful there). If I’m right, it’s the one that’s been irritating me since, like, 1989. It does indeed look like Kennedy’s, but with a lot more fluff up front, often enough to obscure eyebrows. In high school at least, it always went along with a braided leather belt (extra long, so that the end could be tied) and a sort of slack-jawed, almost intentionally stupid facial expression. I always regarded it as the epitome of lemming like behavior. No one knew why they had this haircut, no one particularly liked it or even thought about it; they just did it because everyone else was doing it. I think it came about as a kind of after effect of the let’s-bring-back-the-seventies movement. It’s sort of a nod towards the idea that men could have big hair.
