Definition of redneck being a rednack has nothing to do with your social status at all it does however describe where a person is from it originated from farmers why because of their long days in the hot sun and being sunburned on the neck hence the term redneck it has been misused and mis represented over the years to describe a certain class of people and thier life style just like the word nigger not picking straws well i guess i am but the word nigger should be used in place of redneck the webster says that nigger is that anyone who is a nasty unclean vulgar person is a nigger it does not state a color i guess like the words redneck and nigger both have been widely miss represented to the point of know return i concider myself a redneck only because i am from the country and because i was raised on a farm The first paragraph should say what redneck is but it doesn t It only states that the term is a pejorative stereotype and defines its geographical area of usage which is fine But I guess most of us readers specially those like me who live neither in the U S nor in Canada would like to know since the first paragraph that the term initially refered in a pejorative way to white poor people from the southern United States and afterwards extended to white rural people from the whole nation and provinces of Canada That piece of information should be as a matter of fact the first one of the whole article That s a fair point so why not be bold and make the edit When you do please cite a source If you re not sure how to do that post the information about your source here and we can help Thank you To tell you the truth I m not quite sure my posted definition of redneck is the right one It is what I gathered from reading this article and some additional info outside the Wikipedia site My point is to depict from the beginning the ethnic group the term refers to and since I m not sure I guess I ll leave the being bold part to someone else At least for now Thanks again anyway From what I ve read and heard the term redneck has a somewhat different connotation in England and South Africa than it does in America This is briefly mention in the article but perhaps it should be expanded upon In response to earlier questions now I m not sure if the terms the American West and the American East would be defined in the same way in a modern context as they would be in the context of the 1800 s The whole issue may be far more complex than I had previously thought We need to distinguish between the origins of the term redneck and its present day meaning Today the term is used in the US to mean either 1 a manual worker of European ancestry who hails from a rural or southern place or 2 any American of European ancestry who expresses or is suspected of holding the views and attitudes that are associated with a certain stereotype of rural and southern white workers It is a put down like n except that it includes class snobbery as well as a racial element It s most popular among people who are insecure about their own social position From my experience 2 is the most commonly used definition 1 sounds more like a hick or hillbilly The first definition is inaccurate at least the part about being a manual worker Family Guy Influence Family Guy had an episode recently poking fun at rednecks mention it somewhere please Dude every show pokes fun at rednecks Family Guy s not exactly the first although that show has an unusually negative view of the South thanks to whoever cited me on blunt definition first paragraph part but I h