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[QUOTE="nephron, post: 537939, member: 23759"]
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Jaybird, here's some more:

Redneck, from 1830, refers to Presbyterians (ironic&nbsp;how "presby" means literally&nbsp;near-sighted eg. presbyopia )&nbsp;of Fayetteville. Although its meaning there is not fully known, it may be in reference to "ruddiness of the neck with anger" or, as you said, "sunburned necks caused by working in the field all day". It also referenced a group of striking coal miners who wore red bandanas for self-identification.

Also, Afrikaans 'Rooinek' (Bundu?), literally meaning redneck--was a deprecating term applied by Boers to the emigrating (irony here?) British, and later applied to all European immigrants.

Redneck may also stem from Scottish musical lyric, much of which became what we know today as southern or dixie type music.&nbsp;A musician,&nbsp;Frank Walsh, told a story of 'Bonnie Dundee' who was commissioned by the English King to suppress Scottish 'Covenanters' who were practicing religious heresies against the Anglican Church. A 'National Covenant of Scotland' was eventually written, by the self-liberated Scotts, and signed in blood by the signatories in Edinburgh, circa 1638. As a sign of their covenant with God, the Scottish wore red collars. The English then, noting this began to refer to these dissenters as "Rednecks".

So as you can see, we&nbsp;can blame all this hippocracy and even the entire argument here on Bruce and Marcus... ;)
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