Jim Goad writes:
Do you know that the overwhelming majority of white Southerners—well over 90% of them—never owned slaves even at the peak of slavery?
Do you know that the term “redneck” dates all the way back to Scotland in the 1640s, when it was used to describe peasants who rebelled against the ruling class?
Do you know that its most plausible American derivation is from the 1800s when it was used to describe those impoverished whites who didn’t own slaves nor hire black sharecroppers and instead toiled in the fields and burned their pale necks red under the hot sun?
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