what is the difference between white trash and redneck?

Answer 1

Location,location,location. Rednecks are down to earth and White trash live in it, Rednecks, will raise a pig to eat, and White trash live with them. Rednecks, drive up and down the rows of corn, White trash go up and down rows of trailers. Rednecks will work all day, go to the bars and get drunk, get loud,and mouthy and cause a fight. White trash get drunk and get beat up. I could go on but you get the jest. :-)

Answer 2

I'm from Southeast Texas, home to both breeds of humans. So, here's my answer:

They are almost identical.

"White Trash" refers to the mostly Scotch-Irish and sometimes English settlers in the Southern U.S. who owned tiny farms and were too poor to own slaves.

It is an insulting term that plantation-owning whites and even plantation slaves used to describe the poor whites of the region.

Most of the Confederate army enlisted men were "White Trash", while the officers were "Gentlemen" -- i.e., slaveowners.

"White Trash" mainly refers to the deep south: Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and especially the Appalachian region and West Virginia.

Now, "Redneck" applies in those areas, but it is a less insulting term and also applies in places like Texas and Oklahoma.

Redneck refers to the sunburned look that small-plot farmers AND ranchers and cowboys developed from working in the sun.

Remember, white people came from Northern Europe, where there was very little sun until just about 10,000 years ago. So, white skin doesn't do well under the brutal sun of the American South and West. That's why Indians and Africans aren't white -- they come from sunny areas.

Redneck usually means a manual laborer who lives in a rural place and maintains the lifestyle and values of poor Scotch-Irish or English southern Americans.

Today, that means they drink beer instead of wine. They watch Nascar racing and football a lot more than baseball. They are southern Baptists or Evangelicals instead of Methodist or Presbyterians.

If you want more information, watch a Jeff Foxworthy stand-up show.

Answer 3

A Redneck actually works hard for a living. They don't expect people to hand them everything on a silver platter. Rednecks have some social skills, they don't sleep with just anyone. Most Rednecks are just good old fashion people. They believe in the old ways of doing things. Rednecks believe in having a good time, but they put a hard days work before they do.
White trash wants everything given to them, and then whines it ain't enough. They don't work, and their social skills involve meeting with their social worker once a month. They don't have a good time, because they are too busy trying to figure out how to get people to give them their last dollar. They have never put a full day of work in their lives, and just don't care...they are out to get what they can, and don't have any desire to work for they want---they sit on the porch waiting for someone to bring it to them---then grip when they don't get it...
Please understand there is a big difference between the two groups of me. Rednecks will tell you they are rednecks and proud of it...White trash don't tell you they are white trash they just ask you for something....................

Answer 4

white trash hasnt got any home training and a redneck is the result of working outside for a living

Answer 5

Location. White trash can be anywhere. Rednecks are Southern

Answer 6

It seems all rednecks are white trash, But all white trash are not rednecks. It comes down to classification.

Answer 7

Reck Neck is a poor white person in the southern United States.

White Trash is an offensive term for White people who are impoverished.

Answer 8

If all white trash are not rednecks
and all rednecks are not white trash,
and if some white trash are rednecks
and some rednecks are white trash,
well then.....
you do the math.

Answer 9

Rednecks usually have jobs and lots of guns.

White trash have no jobs and lots of kids.

Answer 10

REDNECK IS SOMEONE THAT WORK,NOT IN A SUIT ,HE BUILDS BRIDGES,AND HOUSE,AND HIGH RISES, NOT AFRAID TO GET DIRTY,A HARD WORKER,AND SOME OF THEM LIKE TO DRINK TO WIND DOWN
WHITE TRASH is someone that doesn't take care of her children,has a husband and 2 or 3 boyfriends on the side,probably frequent visitor to social services,may have children in foster care, never knows were her children are and don't care,drinks and cusses in front of children,wears clothes 2 sizes to small,and think they look good ,has a filthy house and junkie yard and don't care and i guess men and women cam be one ,or the other or both