In a message dated 5/3/01 8:42:36 AM Central Daylight Time, ccs138@psu.edu
writes:
<< OK, you got me, what's the real definition of a redneck? (Just curious)
-Chris >>
Chris,
A "redneck" is the old slang term for an American farmer. Since they spent
most of the day hunched over in the sun working the soil and raising crops in
the sun, their necks got sunburned and turned red. These people typically
were not the wealthiest of people, and they usually couldn't afford to own
the best of stuff. Wealthy people that owned plantations and could afford
not to work out in the sun deemed these "lower class" people as "rednecks".
If you ask me, coming from a redneck family myself, these people were not
lower class. They were simply hard working people who tried keep America fed
with their own two hands. If it wasn't for the "rednecks" people wouldn't
have had clothes on their backs (cotton), they wouldn't have had food on
their table (corn, beans, etc...) and America wouldn't have had a group of
hard working honest people who took pride in what they had, not what was
given to them. Redneck born and Redneck bred, so when I die I will be
Redneck dead!
The other Will
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