"We're probably one of the last few groups that it's still politically correct to make fun of," Wright says. "It's still OK to tell, you know, hillbilly, redneck jokes."
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Note: there are many stories about the origins of the term "redneck". Most scholars agree that the term probably was originally used at least a century before the Mine Wars, to refer to southern farmers who were exposed to long hours in the sun while working in the fields.
This dovetails a bit more with the common conception of the term I'd heard/learned in South Carolina and North Georgia growing up.
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Miners often wore red bandanas, earning them the nickname “rednecks.”
I've been called a redneck and used the word many times, but never new about the history of it.
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