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redneck

[red-nek] / ˈrɛdˌnɛk /


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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

Kreider’s husband, Jim, chimed in: “A redneck, gun-toting environmentalist.”

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

“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

It is revisionism where somehow we're racist rednecks which is not true.

From Salon Sep. 17, 2018

When I was in Australia I had more than one person, these were what we would call rednecks here mind you, ask me "what's with you yanks and guns?"

From New York Times Oct. 20, 2017




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