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
Kreider’s husband, Jim, chimed in: “A redneck, gun-toting environmentalist.”
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
Something about his mud-encrusted boots and the way he let smoke curl from his lips and how the sinking sun lit his green hair reminded me of a punk, redneck James Dean.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
“People think we’re ass-backward rednecks, but that’s not true,” said Martin, who ordered a salad and kissed her husband before his round of golf.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2024
“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
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
It is revisionism where somehow we're racist rednecks which is not true.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2018
These arresting stories, all set in a working-class town in eastern British Columbia, where D. W. Wilson grew up, concern “the nuances of rural life, the divide between rednecks and bluecollars.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2014
