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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

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




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