redneck
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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
Michael Trotter Jr. told me that “when you have artists standing onstage yelling about redneck culture, you know they’re not talking to you.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2024
He was a huge guy with stark white hair, a straw cowboy hat, and a braided white beard—kind of like Father Time, if Father Time went redneck and got totally jacked.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
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“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
She has written about how outsiders view residents: “We’re rednecks and hayseeds from the hinterlands, the backcountry, the backwoods, and the boondocks.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2020
It is revisionism where somehow we're racist rednecks which is not true.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2018