Wikipedia: Redneck

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A person having a red neck caused by working outdoors in the sunlight.

Redneck is commonly used to describe a dumb person (with a mullet) from the countryside and usually applies to people from the southern or midwestern United States.

The term redneck refers to a (typically male)person having a red
neck caused by working outdoors in the sunlight over the course
of their lifetime. The effect of decades of direct sunlight
on the exposed skin of the back of the neck not only reddens the skin,
but renders the skin leathery and tough, and is typically very wrinkled
by late middle age.

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Redneck is usually derogatory?.

The term redneck is often but not always perjorative?,
in the same sense as hayseed.

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The term redneck refers to a (typically male)person having a red neck caused by working outdoors in the sunlight over the course of their lifetime. The effect of decades of direct sunlight on the exposed skin of the back of the neck not only reddens the skin, but renders the skin leathery and tough, and is typically very wrinkled by late middle age.

The term redneck is often but not always perjorative?, in the same sense as hayseed.

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