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Wikipedia's citation from 1893 says the term comes from sunburns on farmer's necks which would predate any supposed communist symbolism. "poorer inhabitants of
by cdot2 3y ago
Wikipedia's citation from 1893 says the term comes from sunburns on farmer's necks which would predate any supposed communist symbolism.
"poorer inhabitants of the rural districts ... men who work in the field, as a matter of course, generally have their skin stained red and burnt by the sun, and especially is this true of the back of their necks"
Frederic Gomes Cassidy & Joan Houston Hall, Dictionary of American Regional English VOL.IV (2002) p. 531. ISBN 978-0674008847
- kikokikokiko 3y agoFor me personally, as a non english native speaker that never even lived on an english speaking country, the term redneck was always self explanatory: it comes from the sun burns on the necks of white farmers. To think anything other than that is the origin for the term is just stupid. Makes the whole claim by that guy to have been tested and having an "off the charts" IQ seem very dubious.
- cdot2 3y agoI assume any claim made by someone who says they have an "off the charts IQ" is dubious.