A Redneck?
Posted by mathiusbryant on March 8, 2013
So what is a redneck? We may think of a redneck being someone who is really country or even racist. But what’s the actual definition. I looked it up online and I found out that it means a derogatory slang term used in reference to poor, uneducated white farmers, especially from the southern part of the United States. It is similar to the words we use as stereotypes such as cracker, hillbilly, and redneck. What did you think it means from where your from? Comment please!
ivanaclay said
In the small town where I currently live I see people embracing the term “Redneck”. People who feel strong ties to small town southern farm living seem to have grabbed on to the name and wear it proudly. Although I have seen it be used first hand as an excuse for wild behavior and improper grammar, I think with time the word may move slightly away from the derogatory and maybe it will be viewed in a little better light.
scsteele said
I’m from small town as well, and it seems like around here if you are called a “redneck” then it’s an compliment but sometimes people don’t mean it as a compliment. For us the term “redneck” means going mudboggin (mudding in mud holes), riding the creeks on four wheelers, and going to prom with their date in a combine or their dad’s work semi from where they haul chickens around.
Sam Ford said
I assume the red neck just comes from working in the sun and the burn that comes with it, no? As I suggested in another comment, there’s a long history in our culture of adopting a word meant as a pejorative and accepting it as one’s own, as it seems people have done with “redneck.”