She lives in my "home state" of Illinois (quotes because that's hardly where I ever found myself.) I hadn't really talked to her much at all in about 5 years over the phone, and even then it was just a 10-15 minute conversation about how things are going. I live in a very small trailer, I purposely developed a very thick southern drawl as well. When I left her a voice mail last weekend sharing the idea, I didn't choose my words carefully. She already knew that I live in a small trailer. I said that I miss seeing her, and that I've been feeling lonely without her for the longest time, since we were kind of distant growing up. I was dumb enough to say that I only had one bed, and that she could have it while I sleep on the couch outside. It was the truth though, I wasn't trying to get her to sleep in the same bed with me at all. After I hung up, my heart started racing as my wording just got to me. There was enough crippling anxiety and humiliation for me to not even walk outside much for the rest of that day.

She must have interpreted it sexually, because I decided to stalk her facebook page the next day (I don't have a FB account). She and her friends were like Ewwww, I saw some redneck memes, and she said on a thread that she felt sick to her stomach (without directly saying that I was after her sexually in any way). She's in her 30's but this whole incident made her act like a teenager again.

It was an episode of Family Guy that inspired me to become a redneck southerner, and I saw this 7-8 years ago (I think it's called Airport). Being a redneck has brought me a lot more happiness, since I'm a devout Christian who likes conservative politics, and I've always felt content with jobs that are very blue collar. She did not contact me back, and this whole embarrassment is the first time that I've seriously questioned it. If I tried explaining myself to her, she probably wouldn't believe me. I've always been taken less seriously by my family. I would have had more to lose if she wouldn't talk to me again and we were close to begin with, but since we're distant for two people who are siblings, it makes me feel even shittier and more awkward.

tl;dr I called my sister in IL up to see if she would come down to Mississippi to see me, and because of my poor wording it must have sounded like I was trying to sleep with her or something (as incest is also a stereotype of rednecks, and I'm the only redneck in my family.)

This was originally posted on /r/TIFU but it was removed for supposedly breaking rule #7.