The term "redneck" refers to White men from rural America who do hard work for a living. They are construction workers, lumberjacks, farmers and the like. It can be extended to truck drivers, miners and anyone else who does physical work, even though they do not have the sunburned neck.

Rednecks were Okies and Arkies who came to California in the Dust Bowl days and built the Central Valley into the premier farming region in the world. They built the Interstate Highway System that Eisenhower got stared. They were, and still are, the nucleus of our military. They are proud, self-reliant people and patriots. Johnny Cash and Tammy Wynette picked cotton at one time. Glenn Campbell loaded 100 pound sacks of potatoes onto a flatbed truck when he was just fifteen.

They other term mentioned refers to people who are often on welfare, food stamps, and drink too much beer in their trailers.