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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

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

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

Our Father forgot, for fishing in the style of modern redneck Georgia you need your ice.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

“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

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

It’s not like me or Jody are misogynists, or racists, or even rednecks.

From Salon ● May 18, 2012




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