red neck

adjective, noun. Word used to describe rural Americans or things associated with them and implies haveing lower standards of income and education. Includes but is not limited to those who live in the Appalacian Mountain Range, the Deep South, and the Mid West. Coined during the West Virgina Mine Wars were mine workers tied red bandanas around there neck as a form of uniform during mine strikes.

We don't want to drive by that red neck trailer park.

Jebb's a red neck from south Alabama.

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