what is a redneck.?..sorry ime from england.?

Question

ive heard there all inter related and live in your southern states..

are they racist or just ignorent..

thanks for your answers

Answer 1

what you hear is stereotyping.

i'm a redneck and i'm not racist or stupid or a slob etc. yes i live in the south.

don't always believe what you hear.

Answer 2

As I understand it the term Redneck originally referred to the people working the land (e.g.: farmers.) Because they were working on the sun their necks, especially the back of their necks would be typically red in color.

The term was also originally use despectively to them because while hard working and intelligent (at least average), they were typically not "school" educated. Also did not have much contact outside their community and thus not very flexible to change or used to adapt to different customs.

since then the term has being used to refer to people with low level of education, inflexible in their believes and very closed nitted with their group or race.

Although some group of people used the term more loosely now and apply it to the people from the southern part of the USA or to people that is not from a large city.

Darn this is a bit too serious answer for this forum. I am taking a break.

Answer 3

I'm Southern. You're discriminatory, Flowers, and quite horribly incorrect.

In all honesty, I more than likely possess far more intelligence than you ever shall obtain.

Why do you hate Southerners?

And you spelled "ignorant" incorrectly. What's worse is that you spelled it incorrectly while a spell check was present at merely a click away. I believe that classifies you as a redneck.

Answer 4

A redneck can be anyone who is not sophisticated. We are not all racists or inter-related. Some people just want to make something dirty out of it.

Answer 5

I believe the term came from farmers and laborers who worked outside and got sunburned . They were deemed to be somewhat ignorant by white collar workers because of the occupation they chose. Which , of course, is nonsense! But the term still comes up today.

Answer 6

Guide to Rednecks.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/331020/guide_to_rednecks.html

Answer 7

Yes to both of your answers. I live in Florida.
They are very racist more than anything. The ignorance comes next. I dont do rednecks! I have quite a bit of male friends and I can honestly say none of them are rednecks.

Answer 8

Like a white man, 3rd generation fisherman from Devon.

Answer 9

They are the most intelligent species on this planet who think that a menstural cycle has 3 wheels and Semen is a term for sailors.

Answer 10

Redneck, in modern usage, predominantly refers to a particular stereotype of people who may be found in many regions of the United States or Canada. Originally limited to the Appalachians and the American South, and later the Ozarks and Rocky Mountains, this stereotype is now widespread in other states and the Canadian provinces. The word can be used either as a pejorative or as a matter of pride.

A 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.

It is clear that by the post-Reconstruction era (after the departure of Federal troops from the American South in 1874-1878), the term had worked its way into popular usage. Several blackface minstrel shows used the word in a derogatory manner, comparing slave life over that of the poor rural whites. This may have much to do with the social, political and economic struggle between Populists, the Redeemers and Republican Carpetbaggers of the post-Civil War South and Appalachia, where the new middle class of the South (professionals, bankers, industrialists) displaced the pre-war planter class as the leaders of the Southern states. The Populist movement, with its message of economic equality, represented a threat to the status quo. The use of a derogative term, such as redneck to belittle the working class, would have assisted in the gradual disenfranchisement of most of the Southern lower class, both black and white, which occurred by 1910.

Another popular theory stems from the use of red bandanas tied around the neck to signify union affiliation during the violent clashes between United Mine Workers and owners between 1910 and 1920.

The derivation of "redneck" was explained to some as a reference to poor, white farmers in Alabama who worked poor soil, which had included in its composition red clay. Working the soil gets someone dirty and the red clay that got on the necks of the poor dirt farmers was hard to get off. They were referred to derisively as "rednecks."

NOTE : Possible Scots-Irish etymologies
The National Covenant and The Solemn League and Covenant (a.k.a. Covenanters) signed documents stating that Scotland desired a Presbyterian Church Government, and rejected the Church of England as their official church (no Anglican congregation was ever accepted as the official church in Scotland). What the Covenanters rejected was episcopacy — rule by bishops — the preferred form of church government in England. Many of the Covenanters signed these documents using their own blood, and many in the movement began wearing red pieces of cloth around their neck to signify their position to the public. They were referred to as rednecks[1]. Large numbers of these Scottish Presbyterians migrated from their lowland Scottish home to Ulster (the northern province of Ireland) during the 17th century and soon settled in considerable numbers in North America throughout the 18th century. Some emigrated directly from Scotland to the American colonies in the late 18th and early 19th-centuries as a result of the Lowland Clearances. This etymological theory holds that since many Scots-Irish Americans and Scottish Americans who settled in Appalachia and the South were Presbyterian, the term was bestowed upon them and their descendants.