Bama Bangs--Coming to a White Kid Near You

As someone who spent four years teaching at the University of Alabama, besides noticing the different culture/s in the Deep South, I was always amused by all the white guys who never cut their damn hair. They had this shaggy-headed, unkempt look to themselves. Since they are such "conservative" states, I figured why wouldn't men's haircuts also be conservative in Alabama and other parts of the South.

Being a Northerner (Yankee) by birth and disposition, I always chalked up the shaggy-headed mops of young adult males in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Georgia to a stint at rebelling against "the Man"--and that "man" being one's family usually. A likely Mom would probably say, "John David, baby, will ya puhlease cut that hair of yers!"

A recent columnist, however, has dug much more deeply into this phenomenon, way past my facile interpretation of this Beatles-like mop updated for the twenty-first century.

See Link: http://www.sportsline.com/spin/story/9721273/1

To see the kingpin of this burgeoning movement, go to Brodie Croyle's page.

Link: http://www.kcchiefs.com/player/brodie_croyle/

And here's his protege, John Park Wilson.

Link: http://www.rolltide.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=37424&SPID=3011&DB_OEM_ID=8000&ATCLID=511941&Q_SEASON=2006


I've already noticed this trend happening here in cosmopolitan St. Louis, an area considered Yankeedom by any self-respecting Southerner. Beware Barbers. It's not the Hair Saloon for Men that's taking away your business. Blame it on Bama Bangs.

Roll Tide.