(September 26, 2016 at 5:23 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote: Then maybe you should say white trash because we hate white trash too. Redneck is a good term for good people. It was started from farmers bending over their fields and getting a sunburn on it. Cowboy hats were made large brimmed to try and avoid direct sun on the face, chest, and neck. We take pride in the term redneck because it refers to someone that was outside working doing manual labor.
The term redneck was actually a derogatory word used to dehumanize white slaves, or indentured servants or whatever. Basically, the term was basically used like the N word was used for black people. heh Now I see black people calling themselves that, and white people take pride in the word redneck. It's... kinda funny.
Though, lately the term redneck has become a term that means unsophisticated country people, and a lot of people use it interchangeably with the word "white trash." Rural people are fine. By the way I'm using it, you and Thump just sound like a rural people, which isn't the same as a redneck or a hick.
