2006-07-12 09:18:15 · 6 answers · asked by mandy 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
The word "redneck" originally referred to poor, white southern farmers who got sunburned necks from working their fields. Eventually, the term's definition was expanded to include all white southerners.
2006-07-12 09:24:31 · answer #1 · answered by Incorrectly Political 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The popular etymology says that the term derives from such individuals having a red neck caused by working outdoors in the sunlight over the course of their lifetime. The effect of decades of direct sunlight on the exposed skin of the back of the neck not only reddens fair skin, but renders it leathery and tough, and typically very wrinkled and spotted by late middle age. Similarly, some historians claim that the term redneck originated in 17th-Century Virginia, because indentured servants were sunburnt while tending plantation crops.
And all the redneck jokes sound like they don't work!
It is just another racist deflamatory name calling instance like calling white people crackers.
2006-07-12 16:23:39 · answer #2 · answered by thematrixhazu36 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why not call it as you see it?
2006-07-12 16:21:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It made more sense than magenta necks.
2006-07-12 16:20:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because dumbass was taken by people who ask stupid questions.
2006-07-12 16:23:18 · answer #5 · answered by PourOneForMe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe they haven't found themselves yet and you are helping
2006-07-12 16:22:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋