@rijf2: Gretchen Wilson on the stigma behind the word “Redneck”#gretchenwilson #redneckwoman #redneck #word #debate

Brent Brugger :

Redneck initiated as a derogatory term, identifying Irish slaves working out in the cotton fieldsnext to Sfricans.

Jeffry Dougla❌️ :

Redneck is not a race. I know white, black, Korean, Mexican, and Chinese rednecks. God bless America

MommaMarie :

I'm from WV, here we were taught that the phrase redneck came from coal miners wearing red bandanas to signify their protest during the coal miner wars against the corporations.

Kathy W :

Redneck was a term used by racist against poor white farmers who had rednecks because of being in the sun all day.

one eye white snake 8 :

saw you do a interview when your song hit top of the charts can't remember verbam what you said but you did tell the interviewer that if you took off them earrings somebody was fixin to get whooped

Clutch :

In the context of the American labor movement and Appalachian history, the term for a striking worker or union member who wore a red bandana—famously associated with the Kentucky and West Virginia coal miner strikes—is a Redneck.Historically, while the term gained widespread traction around the 1920s Mine Wars, the wearing of red bandanas by union miners began as a symbol of solidarity during the earlier 19th- and 20th-century labor disputes.

icequeenalchemy :

Battle of Blair mountain.

Scott Gilmore :

yes people need to understand that black people consider themselves redneck because they work hard and are loyal to their friends and family

kyler1456 :

One of the other backstories behind the term is from the strike at Blair mountain everyone had a red bandanna, and everyone stood together whether you where white as white or black, as long as you were working class. And I wish nowadays we as a society could do something like this but they use the 2 party system to stop that

Citori 100 :

Love You Gretchen

Stephen Merritt :

Except for being a sharecropper, I am a redneck, but it comes from sharecropping unlike their native or black neighbors. Whites didn’t have sunscreen so part that was the most exposed was the back of their neck, and it would turn bright red with the burns and the most common cheap handkerchief was a red one so you buy those to wrap around your neck to keep the burns from getting dirt in them until they heal up.

matt :

Thank you

tyler :

Growing up my grandmother would get mad at me for saying redneck. It was a slur.

user7558248052208 :

OMG Lady I love you!!!!❤️

Mimi2DK :

yes! thank you.

user7964572883907 :

Beautiful!!!

dancingqueen800000 :

Floridafarmboy :

we love everybody 🥰

james50345 :

you are a beautiful soul that's human love you

🎀ariah :

I’m biracial and I knew the words to this song before I took my first breath of oxygen. Has nothing to do with race..

Star Lost💫 :

I call myself a hillbilly instead cause I lived in a farm town in the mountains 😂

Jo3JustLiving :

There’s two different versions I’ve heard . One is that the Scott’s in the Appalachia wore red scarfs during the revolution,and then I heard that people who worked for the coal companies wore red bandanda around their I neck

Troy Jenkins1913 :

exactly truth look at the original meaning of the word

JcBc🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 :

It means country, don't give a flying what they say.