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Bookmark or Share- Why the Term “Redneck” Defies Simplistic Origin StoriesThe Oxford English Dictionary finds derogatory usages for redneck —when defined as “a poorly educated white person working as an agricultural laborer or from a rural area in the southern United...
- The Redneck Stereotype | Facing History & OurselvesWhat differentiates rednecks from poor whites is the perception of rednecks as racist, hot-headed, too physical, violent, uncouth, loud, mean, undereducated—and proud of it. The stereotypes follow: Rednecks do not adopt politically correct speech and are proud to be brutally honest about their feelings about nonwhites.
- Redneck - WikipediaRedneck. The term may come from the look of a sunburned neck. Redneck is a derogatory term mainly, but not exclusively, applied to white Americans perceived to be crass and unsophisticated, closely associated with rural whites of the Southern United States. [1] [2]
- What It Means to Be a 'Redneck' or a 'Hillbilly' - VICEWhat It Means to Be a 'Redneck' or a 'Hillbilly' When city people throw around words like "redneck" or "hillbilly," they generally mean them as insults. But what do these words signify for the...
- Rednecks: A Brief History - JSTOR DailyIn America, the word redneck dates back to the 1800s, and in different parts of the country at different times, its meaning has shifted. Over the course of nearly 200 years, it has stood for the following: poor, Southern whites. a name “applied by the better class of people to the poorer [white] inhabitants of the rural districts”
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