redneck
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"When you're not respected, it's hard to respect the people that don't respect you... I'm the hated redneck, right? That's me. Not that I did anything wrong, I'm just born here."
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
A new vanguard—led by the beer-swilling redneck Stone Cold Steve Austin—would bring the art form into the modern age by embracing bad taste.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
“I’m, I guess, like a redneck in Southern California,” he joked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
“She calls herself a redneck environmentalist,” Kreider said during a visit at Gilbert’s home.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2025
He fiddled with the dial a moment, landing on some mariachi music that was as equally redneck and sappy in its own way as were the cowboy songs.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
“They’re just like all of y’all’s grandparents — I mean, to the extent y’all’s grandparents are rednecks from south Georgia,” he said to laughter.
From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2023
When they joked about rednecks and Klan members, I responded that the countryside would remind them of the villages of our parents, while the lifestyle meshes well with our rancho libertarian ways.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2023
But, as local historian Joe Nick Patoski said, one thing united hippies and rednecks, cowboys and stoners, slackers and geeks: music.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2020
Asked why the two made such a good pair, Mr. Shannon, a native of Lexington, Ky., mused for a while, before hazarding a guess: “We’re both kind of smart rednecks, which is a rarefied breed.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2013
Turns out Stackhouse has been conned by these young rednecks who eat raw meat and lick his head wounds, because he is just that dumb.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2011
