redneck
noun
- usually derogatory, a poorly educated white American from a rural area
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛdnɛk/
noun
Etymology: Bahuvrīhi compound of red + neck. Compare rooinek. The term originally characterized farmers that had a red neck, caused by sunburn from long hours working in the fields.
- A poor, rural, usually white, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and Northeast, especially one whose beliefs are seen as unsophisticated and backward; sometimes with additional connotations of being bigoted.
- yokel, hick, country bumpkin
“Sample a look back you look and find / Nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check”
- Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.
- A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.
- A Roman Catholic.