Why are people from the south called rednecks??

Answer 1

It originated from the people who would work in the fields all day and would get a sunburned neck...hence...redneck...

Answer 2

Literally-because the back of their necks get more tan/burnt than everything else. But "redneck" is a term for uneducated, unskilled, poor white, backward, or just plain stupid people. And many people, for some reason, associate the southern accent with this stupidity. I disagree. I live in Michigan, and it's probably the most redneck state in the Union.

Answer 3

The term redneck began in the south because many people work outside. The sun would burn and tan their necks, therefore rednecks.

Answer 4

I hate that term I live in the south and I am far from a redneck and so are many of the people that live here they are hard working honest americans,I think it has become a hate term toward southern people I would be a redneck if the term meant what it used to mean. Originally the term redneck stems from the time when Bonnie Dundee was commissioned by the English King [read: tyrant,] to suppress the Scottish Covenanters who came to oppose what they viewed as the religious heresies of the Anglican Church. The Anglican Church was the officially recognized Church of England that didn't take kindly to challenges to their authority. The Scots, thanks to the invention of the printing press, had come into widespread possession of the Bible, previously confined to church leaders. These Scots came to recognize various heresies in 'official' church teachings that led them to 'covenant' themselves to the true teachings in the Bible. A "National Covenant of Scotland" was eventually written and solemnly signed in Edinburgh in 1638, often in the blood of its signatories. As a symbol of their covenant with God and each other, the Scottish Covenanters began wearing a red collar around their neck. Noting the symbolism, the English began to derisively refer to these religious dissenters as "Rednecks." Thus, the origin of the term was born in Christian reformation and resistance to religious and political coercion. Due to their religious and political oppression, and eventual defeat, many of Scotland's Covenanters fled their homeland and came to settle the American South. So it is that the South became the historic home for the Scottish Rednecks, who sought to live according to the true teachings of the Bible. Perhaps our so-called 'rednecks,' consciously or not, are merely resisting the levelers who use force to impose their will on all of us. In this light, I will gladly align myself with Redneckism as it should be truly understood and appreciated.

Answer 5

redneck really means back in the 1700's as a hard worker. People in the south worked for the recreation of the upcoming industrial revolution

Answer 6

People from the South aren't called rednecks. Now, if a guy is named "Joey-Billy" or "Billy-Bobby" and drives a big old muddy truck and honks to the tune of the Dixie and hates some other ethnic group and drinks too much beer . . .

Answer 7

not all people from the south are called rednecks im way up north and im just about full redneck

Answer 8

If you wear a confederate flag, have a raised truck, and talk with an accent your a redneck, not just if you are from the south

Answer 9

it is a racist/classist term refering to the fact that most Southern caucasian people were farmers who worked in the fields all day... hence the red necks from burning in the sun.

Southerners today are mostly urban dwellers but like to think of themselves as rednecks because it is now considered 'macho'.

Answer 10

what does this have to do with music?

they're called rednecks becasue when they worked out in the field they'd get a sunburn that would turn there necks red.. well, at least thats what i was told when i was younger...