The origins of white trash

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Where does redneck come from in the US?

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redneck is from all over these great states.

but obviously it originated from people who work outside. c'mon dude.

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Any historians on the ot know existence of categorized white trash? Where does redneck come from in the US?

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I'm not a historian, but I've spent a lot of time inside white trash.

I can confidently say that it comes from Mississippi.

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Where does redneck come from in the US?

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Missisippi

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Where does redneck come from in the US?

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The Scottish “Rednecks”

While there are differing versions of the term’s origin, the first use of “redneck” appears to refer to the Scottish Covenanters of the 17th century, an independence movement created in response to England’s King Charles I, who took steps to bring Scotland’s Presbyterian church under his control. In 1638, Scottish Presbyterians signed the National Covenant, declaring their allegiance to their religion over the King of England. The Covenanters signed in blood, and to symbolize this oath, wore blood-red bandannas around their necks. Under English persecution, many Covenanters joined the Scottish migration to Ireland that began in the early 1600s.

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Other Possible Origins Of “Redneck”

One theory traces the term redneck to wealthy Southern plantation owners who felt that, to justify their own supremacy, they needed to degrade poor, uneducated white people. They coined the term “redneck” to disparage white field laborers who could be identified by the bright red sunburns on their necks. Another possible origin of the term is in the West Virginia miners strikes of the 1920s. Facing a mercenary militia hired by millionaire coal barons, the miners took pains to become organized, adopting a uniform that featured a red bandanna worn around the neck. The miners nicknamed themselves “rednecks” as a point of solidarity.

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There's a whole new book on the subject just published this summer: White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

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Wasn't it a term used to describe coal miners or some other blue collar worker that would wear red bandanas around their neck?

I could be making that up

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I thought it was because laborers would get sunburn on their necks

If we had more rednecks and less whatever the frick else people that are left over in this country, you'd be amazed how better things would be.

For some reason it appears many posters here are really butthurt about the existence of us rednecks.
Hell if I know why, insecure in your own shite life I suppose.

You live in the south, get the frick over it.

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If we had more rednecks and less whatever the frick else people that are left over in this country, you'd be amazed how better things would be.

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OK, Charlie Daniels.

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If we had more rednecks and less whatever the frick else people that are left over in this country, you'd be amazed how better things would be.

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problem is the blurring of the "definition" of redneck vis-a-vis white trash vis-a-vis just plain old trash