Redneck

In modern usage, redneck predominantly refers to a particular stereotype of whites from the Southern United States, Western United States, and Appalachia. The word can be used either as a pejorative or as a matter of pride, depending on context.

Popular culture

The Grand Ole Opry, and Hee Haw are popular entertainments from years past, and they, as well as the entertainers Hank Williams, Grandpa Jones and Jerry Clower, have seen lasting popularity within the redneck community, as well as forging opinions in the minds of those without.

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Grand Ole Opry - Hee Haw - Hank Williams - Grandpa Jones - Jerry Clower

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In recent years the Comedic stylings of Jeff Foxworthy, Ron White, Bill Engvall, Larry the Cable Guy and Roy D. Mercer have become intensely popular, with the first four forming first a "Blue Collar Comedy Tour", and now a Blue Collar TV television show and film.

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Jeff Foxworthy - Ron White - Bill Engvall - Larry the Cable Guy - Roy D. Mercer - Blue Collar Comedy Tour - Blue Collar TV

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King of the Hill is an American animated sit-com showing a modern country family from Texas. In the show they are sometimes derisively called "redneck" by an Asian neighbor.

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Country music singer Gretchen Wilson titled one of her songs Redneck Woman on her 2004 album Here for the Party. She was born and raised in the state of Illinois.

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Country music - Gretchen Wilson - 2004 - Here for the Party - Illinois

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Redneck Rampage, a mid-90s video game, placed the player in the role of a redneck, killing and maiming various animal and human enemies.

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Redneck Rampage - Video game

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Author Jim Goad wrote a book titled The Redneck Manifesto that explores some of the socioeconomic history of this word and the people it is leveled at.

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Jim Goad - The Redneck Manifesto - Socioeconomic

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In the John Boorman movie (filmatisation of James Dickey novel) Deliverance, four suburban men went for a canoe trip a Redneck country site. Later one of them got sexually assaulted by a redneck.

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John Boorman - James Dickey - Deliverance

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