Actually ... "Redneck" started as slang for someone who worked outside, because their neck was red from sunburn. Generally meaning "working-class white person".
In cities, a comparable term for a working-class person is "Blue collar worker". Though it does not take the person's ethnicity into account, like "Redneck" does.
BTW - "Redneck" is one of the last racist terms deemed acceptable, as it refers to white people. There was another term for "working-class black person", which is no longer accepted.
This post was edited by Walt O'Reagun at October 27, 2021 3:22 PM MDT
Dude! Dude is English slang (originally American English) for an individual, typically male.[1] From the 1870s to the 1960s, dude primarily meant a person who dressed in an extremely fashionable manner (a dandy) or a conspicuous citified person who was visiting a rural location, a "city slicker".
This post was edited by CosmicWunderkind at October 27, 2021 1:52 PM MDT
