'Redneck' is a term that originated as a slang term for farmers. Because they would spend so much time out in the fields, providing for their family, that the back of their necks would get sunburned. That's a redneck. So it's no wonder ivory tower elites on the coasts turned it into a pejorative.
Also, don't forget the idiots who say: "That's where I get my meat from - supermarkets! Why kill poor defenseless animals when supermarkets have meat for sale without killing anything?!"
It evolved into a derogatory term for all rural whites and eventually got branded by Jeff Worthy to the point it was conflated with traits normally labeled "white trash". Like any racial term that generalizes groups of people under one label, it's lazy, dullard thinking.
CPA, MBAs, and PhD from Wharton, U of MD, and Johns Hopkins as well as various other professional certs and distinctions, I'm also a registered Democrat who's voted straight ticket Dem in every election since 1992. 2020 is the year in which I will vote for my first Republican. Judging from the Leftist, anti 1st and 2nd Amendment policies of my local govt. candidates here in Montgomery County, MD, I very well might straight ticket for the GOP.
Hey we've all become bigots, racists, nazis etc in the last 3 years. We didn't change; an election happened. I have a multi-cultural family, I respect women, I have gay friends that I treat no differently, my girlfriend is a brown skinned immigrant, and I have an engineering degree from a large university in a blue state. But the day Trump was elected apparently I became a nazi. We just have to realize we are dealing with complete morons on the left. I guess if what I am is going to be called 'redneck' then so be it I'm a redneck. I don't really care what you call me as long as in reality I am the good guy.
I thought it was bigotted to think a subset of people are stupid based on stereotypes. Way back when, I used to think Conservatives were nothing more than stupid, gun-totting rednecks. As I matured, however, I realized they had a more sound and mature understanding about politics and philosophy than I did in my Liberal youth.
I'm a centrist and think both sides got smart people, but the ones who actually seem more engaged and informed with and about politics (fake news networks don't count) certainly lean to the right.
Too often do I catch my liberal friends being caught up in verifiable bullshit cuz they're too lazy to check their sources. This is not a rare occurrence and is one that is actually backed up by statistical evidence, given leftists still trust the media significantly more than people on the right.
Can't find the one research paper that showed conservatives are actually more balanced in terms of where they get their news sources from (I think it was 60% cons 40% lib) while liberals overwhelmingly got it from liberal sources, something to the tune of 80 to 90 percent. In lieu of that, conservatives definitely trust the media much less, which means they are more likely to look up their sources.
I am a redneck with a masters degree in IT and over 10 industry certifications incl. 2 in linux, 1 difficult one in coding, and can code competently in 4 major languages, and know/have studied about 12 others. Damn I'm fuckin' dumb!
I grew up in the very rural midwest. Many of my friends grew up on farms.
I have a STEM degree from a prestigious private college, work in industry in a STEM field and also own an IT business on the side and write sci fi books for fun.
I own firearms, have 1 wife and 2 kids, believe in God, hate taxes and cried a little when Trump won because it means my kids will be more likely to have a better future.
"Hillbilly with a degree," had to inform our former and very snotty neighbor after she decided livestock and and old truck made us deplorable. I'm proud.
same. female, engineer (electric, software,systems) 50 years old and i support trump. Master's degree too. but hey, I hear we're all uneducated hillbillies.
Don't worry, they will tell you the moment they start speaking...
"...as a University of Michigan graduate... I have a unique take on this matter... our professors and facilities are the best... in some say the world. Oh you went to State? I can tell by your CIS white husband..."
I may have done engineering and medical school at a so-called elite university. But don’t count that against me.
My people are the people who work their butts off to provide for other important to them (at work, in the home, wherever) and who love this country. And many of the best of them are “rednecks.”
I grew up in hunting blinds, fishing boats, and among people I respect to this day for their wisdom, heart, warmth, and wit. One doesn’t have to have a doctorate to be sharp as a tack, or an Ivy League pedigree to be a person of consequence.
The Dems truly are rudderless. Openly mocking the common American on TV. Could there be a more stupidly self-destructive choice?
I said it before and I’ll say it again, the evolution of their party has been horrifying. Without the media on their side the democrat party would have already collapsed and folded. Only through propaganda have they managed to keep 1/6 of the government, and every day that goes by more people tune it out.
Apparently I'm a redneck too... (with a Masters from UTA and a PhD in Applied Physics from CalTech). I support Trump... and I can both read AND spell. strange... Messier's Dunning and Kruger's ground breaking work does in fact indicate (in a nutshell), that Stupid people don't know they're stupid, because they are in fact... STUPID. a point that CNN demonstrates with alarming regularity.
"The definition of “redneck” must be pretty inclusive"
Remember Yank was an insult, so was GI, and so was deplorable. Any epithet applied to good people, no matter how mean spirited, will eventually become a compliment.
I'm descended from a poor dirt farm family in the deep south. My family is full of life serving members of the military. I"m a wife, a mother, a sister and an Accountant and HR department head with a small, family owned business. We work hard, we play hard and how dare those people at CNN deride me and my family. I voted for Trump in 2016 and will do so proudly this year.
Graduate Civil Engineer here. Successful small business owner and employer of more than 25 people. I've supported Donald J. Trump from the beginning of his campaign.
Happy to call myself a redneck, as I live on a farm in the Virginia Piedmont.
Glad to have you as part of the Redneck Renegade. As a white male from southeast Texas who does hold on to his God, Guns and the Constitution (The real one and not the mushy living, breathing one,) I only deviate from their stereotype in having a BS in Energy Resources Management and a borderline genius IQ. But beyond that, I have greater wisdom than mere intellect.
Believing the garbage you are being taught in "Higher" education is true foolishness, even though you may be praised by your companion mind numbed robots.
As soon as people learn to think for themselves, they become American at heart.
As an Australian family we love the values and character of the Trump voters. ATM we are trapped in the rapidly evolving Socialist State of Victoria and wish to visit the USA for a real taste of freedom. Where do you blokes suggest we visit?
"Yes, but that is all because you clearly have internalized the patriarchy, then helped institutionalize it with a law degree, and then marginalized other women, especially women of color, by overachieving and getting a STEM degree. Checkmate, redneck Drumpfster."
'Redneck' is a term that originated as a slang term for farmers. Because they would spend so much time out in the fields, providing for their family, that the back of their necks would get sunburned. That's a redneck. So it's no wonder ivory tower elites on the coasts turned it into a pejorative.
There are people who actually think like this. Guess where they live. Go ahead. Guess.
The city. From the cradle.
Also, don't forget the idiots who say: "That's where I get my meat from - supermarkets! Why kill poor defenseless animals when supermarkets have meat for sale without killing anything?!"
The best part is...that deer I dropped is entirely free range and healthier meat than whatever artisinal cut you bought at your WholePaycheck.
Exactly!
We harvest venison & all of our fish. I keep hens for eggs, but buy Smart Chicken to eat.
A couple times a year we'll buy good steak for the grill, but other than that we just don't eat beef - venison is our preference for many reasons.
We also keep a large garden. Livin' the good life out in the boonies!
It evolved into a derogatory term for all rural whites and eventually got branded by Jeff Worthy to the point it was conflated with traits normally labeled "white trash". Like any racial term that generalizes groups of people under one label, it's lazy, dullard thinking.
well I think Redneck was derogatory before Foxworthy got ahold of it.
Rural whites got lumped in with trailer park trash
That's me, rural and trashy
Don't forget the lake rats!
Sorry to rain on your parade, but it is not where the term came from.
It was for the red bandannas they wore around their necks.
See here: Coal miners and their Battle of Blair Mountain
http://www.thomaslegion.net/what_is_a_redneck_definition_origin_history_term.html
Redneck is a term that originated from union workers in coal country -- not farmers.
Then how did it become a pejorative for white people who live outside the city and between the coasts?
Upon review I see that the term predates the coal union usage by just a few decades.
I have a BS Computer Science degree and speak another language fluently. I am a Trump supporter.
Same here, minus the other language 'fluently' (conversationally 1, maybe)
I speak Jive, yo.
Hey Holm, I can dig it!
CPA, MBAs, and PhD from Wharton, U of MD, and Johns Hopkins as well as various other professional certs and distinctions, I'm also a registered Democrat who's voted straight ticket Dem in every election since 1992. 2020 is the year in which I will vote for my first Republican. Judging from the Leftist, anti 1st and 2nd Amendment policies of my local govt. candidates here in Montgomery County, MD, I very well might straight ticket for the GOP.
Anne Arundel County here. ;) I'll be voting entirely Republican from now on.
Ditto.
Gasp! No! ?
Hey we've all become bigots, racists, nazis etc in the last 3 years. We didn't change; an election happened. I have a multi-cultural family, I respect women, I have gay friends that I treat no differently, my girlfriend is a brown skinned immigrant, and I have an engineering degree from a large university in a blue state. But the day Trump was elected apparently I became a nazi. We just have to realize we are dealing with complete morons on the left. I guess if what I am is going to be called 'redneck' then so be it I'm a redneck. I don't really care what you call me as long as in reality I am the good guy.
I'm a Puerto Rican Dentist with a post doctoral degree, and support Trump 100%. I'm a hell of a redneck!
My education manifested into a small business which provides services in exchange for money.
There's also a spit cup next to my keyboard.
Hobbies include turning wrenches on motorcycles and designing guitar amplifiers.
I am 100% redneck. And proud of it too.
As my aunt once told me. "You've got to get that piece of paper" that proves you are well read, well spoken, and educated.
yeah the ability to actually GET a meaningful degree of some sort is almost more important than what the degree is in.
I thought it was bigotted to think a subset of people are stupid based on stereotypes. Way back when, I used to think Conservatives were nothing more than stupid, gun-totting rednecks. As I matured, however, I realized they had a more sound and mature understanding about politics and philosophy than I did in my Liberal youth.
I'm a centrist and think both sides got smart people, but the ones who actually seem more engaged and informed with and about politics (fake news networks don't count) certainly lean to the right.
Too often do I catch my liberal friends being caught up in verifiable bullshit cuz they're too lazy to check their sources. This is not a rare occurrence and is one that is actually backed up by statistical evidence, given leftists still trust the media significantly more than people on the right.
Can't find the one research paper that showed conservatives are actually more balanced in terms of where they get their news sources from (I think it was 60% cons 40% lib) while liberals overwhelmingly got it from liberal sources, something to the tune of 80 to 90 percent. In lieu of that, conservatives definitely trust the media much less, which means they are more likely to look up their sources.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/195542/americans-trust-mass-media-sinks-new-low.aspx .....
I am a redneck with a masters degree in IT and over 10 industry certifications incl. 2 in linux, 1 difficult one in coding, and can code competently in 4 major languages, and know/have studied about 12 others. Damn I'm fuckin' dumb!
Sooooo you're saying you're privleged then. Lol just kidding.
I'll upvote Linux every time. Freedom!
BS in Chemistry from The University of Texas at Austin. Man-made climate change is a hoax. I must be a redneck.
I am female, hold a Ph.D. and three credentials... also a published author.
What? But msm told me we are the arrogant ones.
I grew up in the very rural midwest. Many of my friends grew up on farms.
I have a STEM degree from a prestigious private college, work in industry in a STEM field and also own an IT business on the side and write sci fi books for fun.
I own firearms, have 1 wife and 2 kids, believe in God, hate taxes and cried a little when Trump won because it means my kids will be more likely to have a better future.
I love my son and he loves me in return.
I'd list for you my qualifications and experience, but it's not that important.
Don't worry about the thoughts in other people's heads.
If you really were Walmart security then lots of awesome women would be around you!
Medical doctor with a background in IT here... Self identified elites are anything but.
"Hillbilly with a degree," had to inform our former and very snotty neighbor after she decided livestock and and old truck made us deplorable. I'm proud.
Also female, successful, 4 yr college degree, tested IQ of 155. I'd much rather be a redneck than a pansy libtard.
same. female, engineer (electric, software,systems) 50 years old and i support trump. Master's degree too. but hey, I hear we're all uneducated hillbillies.
I'll do ya one better. Not only am I a redneck, I'm a good 'ol boy, and all my friends are too. Good 'ol boys is all we'll ever be.
Give me a give me a give me a redneck girl.
I have a BSAE from Michigan also.
Nice!!
55 patents, two technical Oscars, but yes my knuckles drag on the ground
President Trump loves Rednecks, because Rednecks are Americans!
https://vimeo.com/345069521
I spend my free time reading research papers at the National Institute of Health
Also, I'm in IT and program tools for work that make my job easier and help our customers.
yeehaw
How do you know someone went to U. of M?
Don't worry, they will tell you the moment they start speaking...
"...as a University of Michigan graduate... I have a unique take on this matter... our professors and facilities are the best... in some say the world. Oh you went to State? I can tell by your CIS white husband..."
Trump is the catalyst that wakes people from 'woke' culture that creates little rules to ignore laws.
I may have done engineering and medical school at a so-called elite university. But don’t count that against me.
My people are the people who work their butts off to provide for other important to them (at work, in the home, wherever) and who love this country. And many of the best of them are “rednecks.”
I grew up in hunting blinds, fishing boats, and among people I respect to this day for their wisdom, heart, warmth, and wit. One doesn’t have to have a doctorate to be sharp as a tack, or an Ivy League pedigree to be a person of consequence.
The Dems truly are rudderless. Openly mocking the common American on TV. Could there be a more stupidly self-destructive choice?
I said it before and I’ll say it again, the evolution of their party has been horrifying. Without the media on their side the democrat party would have already collapsed and folded. Only through propaganda have they managed to keep 1/6 of the government, and every day that goes by more people tune it out.
Apparently I'm a redneck too... (with a Masters from UTA and a PhD in Applied Physics from CalTech). I support Trump... and I can both read AND spell. strange... Messier's Dunning and Kruger's ground breaking work does in fact indicate (in a nutshell), that Stupid people don't know they're stupid, because they are in fact... STUPID. a point that CNN demonstrates with alarming regularity.
"The definition of “redneck” must be pretty inclusive"
Remember Yank was an insult, so was GI, and so was deplorable. Any epithet applied to good people, no matter how mean spirited, will eventually become a compliment.
We have the best epithets dont we folks.
"CNN Panel Led by Don Lemon Trashes Trump Supporters as Ignorant Rednecks Who Can’t Read"
Ummm, at least we don't shove our hands in our pants and shove smelly crotch fingers in people's faces...
Oh, and by the way, I am Master's level educated Latina for Trump!!
The idea is to dehumanize us, classic trick of the left.
I'm descended from a poor dirt farm family in the deep south. My family is full of life serving members of the military. I"m a wife, a mother, a sister and an Accountant and HR department head with a small, family owned business. We work hard, we play hard and how dare those people at CNN deride me and my family. I voted for Trump in 2016 and will do so proudly this year.
Graduate Civil Engineer here. Successful small business owner and employer of more than 25 people. I've supported Donald J. Trump from the beginning of his campaign.
Happy to call myself a redneck, as I live on a farm in the Virginia Piedmont.
Don Lemon can go fuck himself.
U of M repreSENT!
Glad to have you as part of the Redneck Renegade. As a white male from southeast Texas who does hold on to his God, Guns and the Constitution (The real one and not the mushy living, breathing one,) I only deviate from their stereotype in having a BS in Energy Resources Management and a borderline genius IQ. But beyond that, I have greater wisdom than mere intellect.
Believing the garbage you are being taught in "Higher" education is true foolishness, even though you may be praised by your companion mind numbed robots.
As soon as people learn to think for themselves, they become American at heart.
We have the best rednecks folks!
As an Australian family we love the values and character of the Trump voters. ATM we are trapped in the rapidly evolving Socialist State of Victoria and wish to visit the USA for a real taste of freedom. Where do you blokes suggest we visit?
Yeah but can you find U Crane on a map?
That video clip, my God.
I just love my home boy Lindsey, speaking now on FOX!
We have the best most patriotic and educated American Russian bots
Be Bop let’s MAGA
Go Buckeyes!
"Yes, but that is all because you clearly have internalized the patriarchy, then helped institutionalize it with a law degree, and then marginalized other women, especially women of color, by overachieving and getting a STEM degree. Checkmate, redneck Drumpfster."