I read somewhere that the red neck part came from the red clay/dirt in the south. Where the backwoodsman usually had their neck covered by the dust. Hence redneck.
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Yes, the south was a predominantly agrarian economy.
"but also provided psychological protection by shading the face from close scrutiny. "
To me it feels like this was made up by some spoiled twat, who couldn't stand that people that they thought were socially inferior, wouldn't show the expected obeisance by removing their hat in front of their "betters".
I remember in school people would say something loudly- neck check? or redneck check? I'm really not sure- and then slap you on the back of the neck. The assumption was that if you had a sunburned neck it'd hurt. I can't remember why the hell it was done, just that it was.
Duh??
This isn't not knowing, this is not understanding something obvious.
Ah! You're getting at something interesting in human psychology: the existence of knowledge ('knowing') versus being able to use that knowledge across situations ('transfer'). Do you know the phases of learning, sometimes simplified as superficial (knowing-that), deep (knowing-how), and transfer (knowing-with)? If you do, how does that apply to this situation? If you don't, I linked to a video but I'm happy to explain it 😊
And I thought a "trucker's tan" was the window-side arm of someone who drives a lot. Anyhoo, congratulations on being one of the 10,000, amigo!
I thought it was from union miners wearing red bandanas during fights against Pinkertons
They took a negative and turned it into a rallying cry.
Same as with "Yankee Doodle." Yankee was a derogatory term for Americans, because many were of Dutch origin. "Jan" was a popular Dutch name. Doodle mean, well doo-doo.
Funny how some derogatory terms get embraced and others don't.
Nerd used to be a big insult. So was 'porn.'
Looks like use for farmers predates coal miners' bandanas.
No shit.
Lol my exact words before jumping to the comments. There's no mysteries to be had here.
The point isn't that it's a mystery, but that it's a word people usually don't really think about.
No one's reacting to it with "Hussa, finally this mystery that's been plaguing me for ages has been resolved for me", they are reacting to it with "Huh, never really thought about it. Makes sense"
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