Why are rednecks called rednecks?

Question

Just curious.

Answer 1

That started in the middle east. Any nonmoozlim, ened up a Redneck. Coz, thats what you get wif NO head.

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Answer 2

Nothing personal, but you look like a cat....Anyway, they're called Rednecks because they work outside from sunrise to sunset, and their necks get all nice and red. When white skin is exposed to constant sunlight, it turns red.

Answer 3

People in cattle country would end up with their whole neck area red from the heat,and flushed by their blood coming to the surface of the skin to cool off. It was usually the rough cowboy, or hand laborer that usually sweated, who got the epithet,
most office workers with dainty clerical works rarely experience having a "red hot, beefy neck"

Answer 4

beacuase back in the day of Slavery, it was considered to be poor and foolish if you had to work your own fields. And those hat had to work in the fields (that were white) got sunburned on their necks. Thus "redneck" was created

Answer 5

Because they are not called bluenecks or yellownecks or greennecks but REDNECKS

Answer 6

Maybe they have rednecks (from sunburn?).

Answer 7

because they wear t-shirts out in the sun, and when you take it off, the neck is red compared to the white back and belly.

Answer 8

the sun