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'''Redneck''' is a slang term for poor whites in the U.S. South, although black intellectual [[Thomas Sowell]] says it applies to modern urban blacks as well.<ref>''Black Rednecks and White Liberals'', Page 2, by [[Thomas Sowell]]''</ref>   

'''Redneck''' is a slang term for poor whites in the U.S. South, although black intellectual [[Thomas Sowell]] says it applies to modern urban blacks as well.<ref>''Black Rednecks and White Liberals'', Page 2, by [[Thomas Sowell]]''</ref>   

* Books, [[business]]es, [[technology]], and [[science]] were not the kinds of things likely to be promoted or admired in the world of the rednecks and crackers. [op cit., page 5]

* Books, businesses, technology, and science were not the kinds of things likely to be promoted or admired in the world of the rednecks and crackers.<ref> Sowell page 5</ref>

 

Historically the term ''redneck'' was derogatory, suggesting a beefy, bestial white southern workingman or farmer and his scrawny, sallow-looking wife and nasty children. By extension it now refers to any uncouth person.  In recent years the term has been favorably adopted by less educated white Southerners.

Historically the term ''redneck'' was derogatory, suggesting a beefy, bestial white southern workingman or farmer and his scrawny, sallow-looking wife and nasty children. By extension it now refers to any uncouth person.  In recent years the term has been favorably adopted by less educated white Southerners.