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I'm trying not to be offended, and mostly succeeding, because this is an opinions board and everyone is entitled to an opinion!

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Interesting your perception of Bud as a trailer park name. When my daughter was pregnant with her second son, and she and her husband were tossing names around, and not agreeing on anything (he was still resisting Abraham at that point), she came up with an idea. Her idea was to let her husband name the baby anything he wanted, but whatever it was, we would call him Buddy which would probably become Bud when he was older. She wanted to do this to honor my my father, who passed away in 1999, and whom she remembered very fondly.

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When she spoke of this to my son-in-law, he said, "No, Bud is redneck."

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When she told me this, I was very highly offended! Now this was different than here on the board. I didn't try to reign my feelings in. I was offended, period.

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Later, my daughter and I mentioned this to his mother, and she stated that she knew why he felt that way. When he was a child, she had had a boyfriend named Bud whom he had disliked, and that Bud was indeed what would be termed "redneck" or "trailer park."

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So he had that impression because of one particular person that he knew...I have no idea how common it is. I tried Googling "Is Bud a low-class name?" and came up with precisely nothing.

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Anyway...my father owned a trucking company and we lived in a house in an upper-middle-class suburb of New York, one of the most cosmopolitan areas of the country, he drank Heineken and wouldn't have touched a Bud Light, and he and my mother would have had their thumbs cut off before they ever would have entertained the idea of living in a trailer!

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I mean this in a light-hearted way...just saying because it's easy to be mistaken when dealing with the typed word. :-D