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REDNECK

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red⋅neck

  [red-nek] Informal: Often Disparaging.
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–noun
1. an uneducated white farm laborer, esp. from the South.
2. a bigot or reactionary, esp. from the rural working class.
–adjective
3. Also, red-necked. narrow, prejudiced, or reactionary: a redneck attitude.
Also, red-neck.

Origin:
1820–30, Americanism; red 1 + neck
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red·neck   (rěd'něk')   
n.   Offensive Slang

  1. Used as a disparaging term for a member of the white rural laboring class, especially in the southern United States.

  2. A white person regarded as having a provincial, conservative, often bigoted attitude.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Cultural Dictionary

redneck

A slang term, usually for a rural white southerner who is politically conservative, racist, and a religious fundamentalist (see fundamentalism). This term is generally considered offensive. It originated in reference to agricultural workers, alluding to how the back of a person's neck will be burned by the sun if he works long hours in the fields.

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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Slang Dictionary
redneck

  1. n.
    a stereotypic southern bigot. (Derogatory. Also a term of address.) : Look, you stupid redneck, try to understand.
  2. mod.
    in the manner of a southern bigot. : I don't follow that kind of redneck thinking.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

redneck 
"cracker," 1893; attested 1830 in more specialized sense ("This may be ascribed to the Red Necks, a name bestowed upon the Presbyterians in Fayetteville," from Ann Royall, "Southern Tour I," p.148). According to various theories, red perhaps from anger, or from pellagra, but most likely from mule farmers' outdoors labor in the sun, wearing a shirt and straw hat, with the neck exposed.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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