Redneck

Rednecks for Obama

Redneck er historisk set et nedsættende amerikansk slangudtryk brugt om fattige, hvide, sydstatsfarmere i USA.[1] Udtrykket minder i betydning om "cracker" (især i relation til Georgia and Florida), "hillbilly" (især i relation til Appalacherne)[2] og "white trash".[3][4] Den mest almindelig amerikanske brug af ordet, dvs. i betydningen fattige hvide på landet i det sydlige USA, kommer sandsynligvis af, at folk kunne have en rød nakke som følge af arbejde ude i solen.

Et citat fra 1893 definerer rednecks som "poorer inhabitants of the rural districts...men who work in the field, as a matter of course, generally have their skin burned red by the sun, and especially is this true of the back of their necks".[5]

  1. ^ Harold Wentworth, and Stuart Berg Flexner, Dictionary of American Slang (1975) p. 424.
  2. ^ Anthony Harkins, Hillbilly, A Cultural History of an American Icon, Oxford University Press (2004), pg 39.
  3. ^ Wray (2006) page x.
  4. ^ Ernest Cashmore and James Jennings, eds. Racism: essential readings (2001) p. 36.
  5. ^ Frederic Gomes Cassidy & Joan Houston Hall, Dictionary of American Regional English, 2002, p. 531.

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