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originally applied to poor whites - but what about the negative connotation: is it deserved, and if so, why?
'''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 originally applied to 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, 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>
* 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>