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redneck

[red-nek] / ˈrɛdˌnɛk /


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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

“She calls herself a redneck environmentalist,” Kreider said during a visit at Gilbert’s home.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2025

A wily, rambling record that demonstrated a clear debt to such longhair redneck troubadours as Jerry Jeff Walker, “Down to Earth” didn’t find an audience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2023

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

“People think we’re ass-backward rednecks, but that’s not true,” said Martin, who ordered a salad and kissed her husband before his round of golf.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2024

“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

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

She has written about how outsiders view residents: “We’re rednecks and hayseeds from the hinterlands, the backcountry, the backwoods, and the boondocks.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2020

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


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