My dears, the behavior that song is describing is not that of a true redneck. That is the behavior of white trash, which is down the Great Chain of Being from redneck.

I once read a book by a football player from Georgia who explained the difference. He had gone into partnership in a restaurant with a guy. The guy grew unhappy, left town, and took the burners from the grills with him so that the football player could not keep going. The football player said [I paraphrase].

"I'm a redneck. But he took the grills with him, and he's white trash."