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Look up Blair Mountain. It’s a wild story https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain
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trythemhamer
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Look up Blair Mountain. It’s a wild story https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain
carmien
one union makes us strong! I have, somewhere, an IWW membership card
Covidnineteen
I remember watching my mom get beat to shit. Nearly 30 years later my father still doesn't get why I don't talk to him.
fuzzlebuttsmama
WorshipTheSun
Check out The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia on Netflix. May help clear things up. LOL https://youtu.be/AQBiXDNVeSA
ShimmerinStrider
Y'aint wrong
Mayyybe
Anddroid
Yep. Buddy of mine bought an old Fairline w/302 from the South... switch installed to shut off all the lights except headlights to run.
alecdshope
Didn't "redneck" come from the backs of their necks being red from being bent over in a field all day? Don't none of this look like farming.
imNotThisCleverIRL
As a descendent of ridge runners, can confirm.
delacruzzz
Suburban rednecks are the worst
FrostyNutzKilla
Battle of Blair mountain still the largest, non military armed conflict in US history
lissik
A lot of people think that "rednecks" are just hillbillies. That's not the case. Rednecks are a heady mix of hillbillies and white trash.
lissik
What you see on the left, minus the house, is rednecks. What you see on the right, minus the truck, is hillbillies.
emilyUnityStar
Hell yeah brother
Raspootin
If we get rid of the Confederate flag, it is going to make douche bag spotting a lot harder.
ProjectSatan
it's not hard to find them. just drive 10 miles over the speed limit in the left lane and they'll start tailgating you with their trucks
Raspootin
"Rolling coal"
saxon2060
"No true Scotsman", eh?
Imtheguywhogetsawaywithit
Not all that strange since a shitload of them were Irish, Scottish, or English.
TarrkertheNewt
As a mountain man, born and raised, hell yeah.
sedona03
Raccoons > Possums
JimStarluck
Which side are you on, boys?
Thefen
Moonshine
UserSubHunterOfIndeterminateGender
A real redneck has run from the cops.
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
Who hasn't, though?
Metalbawkses
Remember kids, real rednecks used to supe up cars to outrun cops. Cuz fuck em
constellanation5
Woody Guthrie for the win
GraveyardWater
Woody rented from Fred Trump and hated the man. Wrote a couple of songs about how Fred wouldn't rent to Black folk.
AslanTheGod
I'm proud to be a Guthrie!
itsnotweirdifyousayboop
Same here!
AslanTheGod
Whatdoyousaytoanicecupoftea
You see, you can nerd out over a Gibson Les Paul or argue about the best Stratocaster, but the *best* guitar is the one the kills fascists
NAbsentia
Wobblies for the other win.
MacBane1977
Arlo turns 73 today.
TheManInABlackSuit
Utah Phillips too
Keru
You gottta mess with people!
irrelevant18
Yes!! Both really, but he needs the shout out.
malachilenomade
Ha ha ha... WRONG. This was made by someone who has never actually dealt with either.
TheRickest
Its almost as if it was like... a meme.
humaneffigy
The terms have no objective meaning, is the issue
rentedcargo
I'm not a redneck, but I've been around so fucking many for my entire life. This post is definitely inaccurate.
DrewSf29
Can someone illegally ship me moonshine please? I'll pay for shipping and I'll add a 25% "finders" fee
cardinal29
They're selling it legally now, no need https://olesmoky.com/collections/moonshine-100-proof/products/white-lightnin
mcbotulism
Nice try, ATF.
Idontlikeolives
This is how people go blind.
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Idontlikeolives
Exactly, getting some off toilet shiner on imgur is dumb. I'm only getting it from Mama in the backwoods who's been doing it for 40 years.
Imtheguywhogetsawaywithit
That's why Bo and Luke Duke were on probation in The Dukes of Hazzard. Uncle Jesse was a moonshiner, and they transported it.
Glasgow351
Never on a Friday though.
Khrome
drove around with a rebel flag. Had black friends.. were not racist
MissSpelledTattoo
JaguarOnMtOlympusPlayingALesPaul
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo!
MissSpelledTattoo
Thelrishlnquistion
Weren’t original rednecks trade unionists? They got the names from the red bandanas they wore? Very left wing...
Herefortheboos
Yeah but that doesn't mean they still weren't racist to a degree. Coal leaders tried many times to pit them agaisnt black scabs
JohnnyLawlessEsq
Unions will fuck up scabs no matter what color they are. Those scabs were black because they couldn't find anyone else.
marsgoose
First mentions of the term refer to poor field workers with sunburned necks. The union thing happened decades later.
daugbret
The unionist part of your comment is reflected by the IWW part of the pic.
Thelrishlnquistion
Oh right, my bad!
WesVTX
I've decided I'm just going to upvote every thread that has a Question -> Answer -> Acknowledgement/Gratitude path. Thanks!
daugbret
And I upvote people who upvote every thread that has a question, answer, gratitude path. Your move, bucko.
Thelrishlnquistion
PantlessThunderGoose42
As a native Of Alabama, having grown up in the shadow of Talladega Intl Speedway, I have lived among the rednecks for many years and /2
PantlessThunderGoose42
/2 have studied their customs and mating habits. A primary defining characteristic of the redneck, both male and female, is a willful, /3
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/3 determined ignorance of the world outside of their small sphere of influence and influencers. To speak figuratively, they prefer to /4
PantlessThunderGoose42
/4 “Use their own ass as an echo chamber.” The most charismatic of their kind rise to positions of social influence and this authority /5
PantlessThunderGoose42
/5 is reinforced by those of lesser intellect, who prefer to repeat the opinions espoused by those they hold in esteem. While physical /6
RearadmiralButtStuff
White Trash | Rednecks
halfbloodking
This is interesting...my gf put on a Chelsea Handler doc on Netflix. She interviewed this white rapper and they discuss what WT is (1/2)
halfbloodking
(2/3) The guy was incredibly articulate and thought provoking and not what I would consider WT (a mindset) but he fully owns it.
halfbloodking
Sauce (3/3) https://youtu.be/ZpdKeaxxTLE
DuelingBrothers
Nah, white trash can't afford any of that shit. They're in a trailer park drinkin paps.
TheSecondPiewackit
pabstses
TheRickest
Oh no, unfortunately White Trash isn't a financial status. I know many a white trash folk that have money.
gripped86
Red neck is a derogatory term given to share croppers. They worked in the fields, at the end of the day there beck was red, they worked
immortalbucket
Now it covers the POS white trash ignorant arrogant Americans sub culture.
gripped86
With other people’s. For the rich white man, the issue is classism and getting out from under ones thumb and doing for yourself.
gripped86
The fact that we allow race to decide ya when we all work for the man is ridiculous. Unless you run shit we are all the same economically.
gunnexx
Yes and now its used as a term for people from a certain social class. Funny how the meaning of words can change throughout history
blackholevoid10011
Sun burned slaves? Damn
GlobeWide
Nobody likes the douchey rednecks. Everyone likes the fun ones.
MissSpelledTattoo
Credit @VaporForBrains
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theimgurappsucksballs
Catfish Cooley ftw
MrBig
Stay cool and classy I love ya (snarrrrrll)
Silnt39
So many douchebags here. Stupid lift kits but their shocks are less than a foot off the ground. Looks fucking ridiculous
JodiferousTwain
Can we just agree that there are douches in every background?
MellowJalapeno
This seems like an appropriate protests sign
tolgabrotha
Amen.
DesertLeporid
Got a friend who is a "fake" one. Her approach to the virus was: panic -> protect kids -> hoax -> muh freedumb -> fuck your regulation. (1
DesertLeporid
She has a kid who has a heart condition & she's not taking it seriously anymore bc "hoax", walking around w/o a mask to "own the libs" (2
DoorbyTheHouseShelf
I mean half of my family are the actual rednecks, and it is always chaos spending time with them. Can't say I'm fond of either lifestyle
SkogensKung
Honestly, it's better to have chaos, than to have pieces of shit.
DoorbyTheHouseShelf
Oh they're chaotic pieces of shit. It's not a compromise lol
HarryDresdenIsMySpiritAnimal
I live in Alabama, surrounded by both. Neither are fun.
circlejerkofhate
Not true, cant stand any of them. Why take pride in being an ignorant hick. I fish, hike, camp, ect and dont feel the need to go "yeehaw"
DiIdo
Yeehaw partner
EmeraldNight
Username checks out.
meemolade
After reading this post it makes me wonder the same thing about people who may be pompous (not you).but those who have an air of superiority
krapmyself
I enjoyed this comment.
bartman2014
gadgetneo
Isn't that true for all stereotypes? Nobody likes the douchey . Everyone likes the fun ones.
gadgetneo
Still...you're not wrong.
witto11
You are 0% wrong
TheDreadPirateJayneCobb
Any Kentuckian worth their salt would argue that this is rednecks vs. hillbillies
dirkmcdirk
Kentuckian's are worth something? Moscow Mitch being in power suggests otherwise
DocWats
Hey some of us are trying. He just has such a strong backing in the coal counties. Maybe this year. Though McGrath is not inspiring imo
mhgrider
The Snells would agree. Don't cross Darlene.
Subaruislife
Darlene's a crazy bitch and you know it
NotADodgeBallCannon
Never ask for the lemonade.
Subaruislife
Don't have to. We give the lemonade to whom we deem worthy and deserving.
gamesandsongs
yup, that mountain part is the give away
CarbonDog
God I hate being front his state
Iknowyourereadingthis
I would've argued this is white trash vs rednecks. I'm q redneck if I'm honest. White trash can be anywhere, like boogymen.
stryhf
Most WV mountaineers would agree
sheeeiit
I was about to say...
Lycanthian
Agree, while there are some tolerable SC rednecks, 90% fit that first bracket, gotta go at least to NCfor the second, aka hillbilly
gnomethrower
Whos who?
StCuntyMcFuckoff
LariCheltsy
As a Kentuckian worth my weight in salt, this is 100% rednecks vs. hillbillies.
MayMyEnemiesLiveLong
Yea these are hillbillies. Cumberland hillbillies.
YoloMcSwagginsteinDaFith
As a Kentuckian, cannot argue
bluefrenchhorn
Yuuuup
organizedmadman
Agreed
ALotOfPeople
Yep i Heard too that redneck is quite pejorative and hillbillies is not
DocWats
Hillbilly also works if you know a guy named Will that lives on a hill
Aaronbobaron
As a born Appalachian I agree.
silentwolf1999
Careful, we gonna need that salt to cure hams come winter
nonamejanie
Yep.
BastofBelial
As a descendant of hillbillies, can concur. That's why all them folks on Rocky Top drink their corn from a jar.
laura378
Then there's the HillJacks but we don't like to talk about them.
METROlD
Kentyukian
Applepotamus
this checks out
bagoffishstix
Hillbillies>Rednecks
Katz00
Where I live in Ky you see a lot of the stuff on the left. Go a bit further east from ke you'll see the stuff on the right.
DocWats
I was raised in Lex, where you see the left. Got family in Wolfe and you see more of the right. Though you still see a number of loser flags
PrickasaursRex
That what I always thought. In Texas, it’s filled with “fake” rednecks. But they’re just rednecks here. The suburbs are lousy with them.
MiguelCamino
There's a difference between rednecks and country boys. The suburbs are full of fake country boys.
Sentrisable
Pavement princesses, the lot of them
GerberLegalTeam
That's kinda the default in my town in bama too.
captainsmitty
Fake rednecks are in the cities, travel between and they're bountiful
gtmiller
Ah yes, don't want Dems touching their hard earned money from employee wage theft and questionable contracts using public money.
captainsmitty
It's not that simple unfortunately.
Barrett91
a lot here in FL too, think a truck and some chew makes you a redneck and the truck is a pavement princess.
MrRandom314159
Real hillbillies have red necks from working outside.
KnotsAreMySpecialty
I as a kentuckian and particularly a lexingtonite would argue I'm not southern >~>
DocWats
Also I'm appalled by the word lexingtonite. I've always said lexingtonian, and now I dont know which is right.
DocWats
Raised in Lex. Definitely not southern. Though we have horse farms right next to the airport (Parkers Mill). So a bit southern...
KnotsAreMySpecialty
Yeah its an odd culture but I'll fight th at label xD
Hungoversoilder1
"Worth their salt" might be the most country thing i have heard i love it
Subaruislife
wait until you hear "worth their mustard"
MuseMatar
I think that's actually from Roman times when soldiers were paid in salt. Don't cite me in any papers though. I'll find you.
idiosamatik
Yes! 1/2 The word salary is derived from the Latin “salarium,” which originally referred to a soldier’s allowance to buy salt ___Link:
idiosamatik
2/2 https://www.history.com/news/where-did-the-expression-worth-ones-salt-come-from
Hungoversoilder1
If you find me can we be friends
loolapaloola
Doesn't the term redneck come from red scarves people wore to show they are in a labor union?
roastnear682
The Alabama Confederate troops had thick red leather collars on there coat.
Nightcaste
That movement stole the term from field workers.
mormacil
As I've heard it's to describe the lowest of white workers, those relegated to field work. Work similar to what the slaves used to do.
LupusIgnis
Wikipedia says that's it because of the sunburn from working the fields all day
lumberjaxrock2
Wikipedia is wrong
lumberjaxrock2
It had to do with red scarfs, Scottish indentured serpents, etc...
lumberjaxrock2
Darn auto correct... serpents are cool though
DocWats
I know indenturing is wrong, but indentured serpents do sound pretty legit.
BrewmasterC1971IPA350
I always thought there was three classifications...redneck (farmer)...hillbilly (appalachian)....and white trash...(poor or rich garbage)
hunnycat
What about hicks and shitkickers ??
Mayyybe
FacePalminator
In Louisiana, there are also Coonasses
HouseBarrister
I feel like there's overlap between white trash and the others? Sincerely, White Trash Hillbilly.
asotzen
Hibilly means Michigan farmer literally.
Perceartista13
Red neck is due to the red handkerchief coal workers used in protest not a farmworker
Conser1
Trailer trash is poor garbage. Not sure about rich garbage. Possibly Kardashians?
MantisTobogganPilotMD
"first class white trash" is a thing.
Markamanic
And of course Donald Trump, Schrodingers White trash
Conser1
Eeehhh...I'd stick him in the celebrity category. They tend to graft themselves to whatever'll get them the most renown.
BrewmasterC1971IPA350
Markamanic
Red neck, because of the sunburn on their necks from working in the field all day.
BrewmasterC1971IPA350
To be clear most Karens fall into white trash...its not about poverty its about attitude.
Asadsadsadclown
Karen’s are nearly always on the rich side of white trash.
nonamejanie
Yassss
ThanatosElNyx
Kareness is about attitude and white trash is about poverty?
cardinal29
White trash is a state of mind. Money has nothing to do with it
kikkoman1122
Exactly, If you move into 500k house thinking you'll be avoiding trashy people, you're going to be disappointed. They're everywhere.
BreisZeldaFitzgerald
Where I'm from that's a cheap house. Housing prices are ridiculous. Karens here live in 800k homes.
dandanthedrywallman
In DC those are the cheapest houses I was confused for a second
zeo868
Jeez, I was on zillow the other day window shopping and found a 3 bed 2 bath in ok shape for 84k, but I am in bumfuck Maine so pretty normal
Khayah
Nah redneck was a reference to unionized workers, the identified themselves with red bandanas on their necks, the current 1/?
youresowrongImadeanaccount
Backwards chronology; union meaning in 1910s, farmer meaning in 1893 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck#Political_term_for_poor_farmers
Khayah
Definition of rednecks is a product of capitalist propaganda smear campaigning at its finest 2/2
mtimothy
I read it started as an insult to poor white farmers who had to work their own fields because there were too poor to own slaves.
mtimothy
They were-
yourlilemogirl
I thought "redneck" came from folks who worked out in the fields/outdoors bent over so much that the back of their neck was sunburnt/red..
Vizzerdrix
Actually it's Scottish in origin http://www.tartansauthority.com/global-scots/us-scots-history/hillbillies-and-rednecks/
HsuDoNihm
Badass. Thank you.
Khayah
Hmm,I just had a Google, can we say we're both right?Lol Pre 1900s its what you said but it was claimed by the unions with the red bandanas
Anfalicious
Remember before the internet, tv, radio culture was much more localised. Words came with people and changed in situ.
GabbiTheSwedishNerdGirl
I think that's a good way to put it. It's also a case of a group reclaiming a derogatory term to use for strength (like "queer").