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The Concept of the Term Redneck

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Redneck is a term used in many ways . This aims to provide meaning to the term redneck . This would be discussing the definition of the word in the dictionary and in history . A brief historical summary is also shown in the in to show how the term redneck had been used all throughout the history and how it was used in some places

p Redneck had several meanings and had been used in the history in different ways . The meaning of the word had revolved from a historic meaning to a stereotype in the modern era . The dictionary Meriam-Webster defines redneck as weary . It is also defined as a white member of the Southern rural class . Another meaning of the word according to Wilton redneck can be defined as someone with a red neck which had been caused by anger . Redneck had also been used literally . This would be furthered discussed in the next few paragraphs

The earliest documented use of the term redneck dates back in the year 1638 . Todd Wilkinson (2007 ) had stated in his article that the term is Scottish . The redneck word had been referred to as the supporters of the National Covenant ,and the Solemn League and Covenant which can be also called the Covenanters . The Covenanters which were mostly Presbytrians had tried to flee from Scotland to go to Northern Ireland during the persecutions by the British Crown . During this time , the Covenanters signed in the documents which states that Scotland had desired a Presbyterian form of church government and they would not want accept the Church of England as the official state church . Many of the Covenanters had use their own blood to sign and had worn red pieces of cloth around their necks as a distinctive symbol . This had become the reason why the Covenanters had been called rednecks . In present time the term had still been used for the Scottish who had settled in North Ireland that were Presbyterian

The term redneck had also been used in America but in a different way from that of the Scots . Laborers who had spent hours working in the field had shown red necks because of hard work in the fields under the heat of the sun . The effect of decades of direct sunlight on the exposed skin of the back of the neck not only reddens fair skin , but renders it leathery and tough , and typically very wrinkled and spotted by late middle age . Similarly , some historians claim that the term redneck originated in 17th-Century Virginia , because indentured servants were sun burnt while tending plantation crops . The effects of working under the sun for years had exposed the skin at the back of the neck . The exposure of the back of the neck had reddened the skin which had made it very tough , leathery...