What is the difference between using the word "redneck" and "hillbilly"?

Question

I answered a question and used the word "redneck", and was "reported", yet on another question several people used the word "hillbilly" to describe a name.... How are the two words different? How did I violate anything, but "hillbilly" doesn't???

And before you get off your rockers, it's a figure of speech.... I don't use ethnic or racial slurs. I grew up in a town that I consider "redneck".... doesn't mean I have to like it. It just means I know of what I speak.

Answer 1

A redneck is a white Southerner who usually lives in a rural area and does manual labor. A hillbilly refers to someone who lives in a rural area. He could be living in the hills of Idaho or on a compound in CT. Additionally, some people have attached certain meanings to rednecks. I grew up in Virginia. There was a difference in culture, class, speech, etc. between students whose parents worked as waitresses, truckers, and factory workers from those whose parents worked in offices or ran their own businesses. Personnally, I would rather be called a redneck than a hillbilly. The former seems friendly/down-to-earth; the latter sounds like a social recluse.

Answer 2

South Park is a Redneck town, and they brag about it in the movie and the CD.

Seriously, a hillbilly may just imply that a person lives in the mountains...far from civilization. While Redneck can be taken, by SOME, as white trash that hates everyone different than themselves.

Answer 3

Hell is the Land of the ineffective, a waiting place for extremely final judgment, a reformatory, the grave, etc.The Lake of hearth is a separate place altogether, created by way of fact the final reformatory for Lucifer and his insurrection angels, besides by way of fact the demon spirits. It become never surely meant as a place for human beings, yet after dying and Hell are forged into the Lake, there is not any different place for the human beings that have allied themselves with the forces of darkness to flow.

Answer 4

A hillbilly is a Northern red neck (and visa versa), for some reason red neck is considered more offensive than hillbilly, rube, yokel and such -- go figure.

Answer 5

red neck has become associated with anti-white attitudes while hillbilly hasn't as much. honestly the only people i know who use red neck are red necks so it makes little sense.

Answer 6

I really dont think there is a difference, I dont like neither one of the words.

Answer 7

rednecks drive big trucks, drink alot of "mochas" and babble about their politcal views without research and are impossible to argue with

hillbillies...well..inbred much?

just social stereo types..thats lame you got reported.

Answer 8

around here it about 15 miles