redneck
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Noodling is often portrayed as an extreme redneck pastime, but it traditionally had more to do with survival than sport.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
"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
Kreider’s husband, Jim, chimed in: “A redneck, gun-toting environmentalist.”
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2025
Harvesting road kill and dumping it in Central Park as a prank, he said, might have been “a little bit of the redneck in me.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2024
Something about his mud-encrusted boots and the way he let smoke curl from his lips and how the sinking sun lit his green hair reminded me of a punk, redneck James Dean.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
“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
It is revisionism where somehow we're racist rednecks which is not true.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2018
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
