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I'm not so smart  so much as enjoy historical contexts. The etymology of redneck was explained more than once when the latest mine cave-in was big. It's backed up here and here.
Back to the original post: depending on how it's presented, Daisy Dukes & a cute top could look cute - but is that how you want to represent your sorority? Even the women in the movie Sweet Home Alabama didn't wear those - they wore sundresses, for the most part. Just make sure that you don't look too much like the Stepford Wives! |
Reading that, it looks like the term came to mean that in the 20s but before that was still a slam on poor southerners. It is interesting how it became both a badge of pride and another denigrating term all at once in the 20s and 30s.
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The following essay explores how the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) and rival miners' unions appropriated both the term redneck and its literal manifestation,
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A chapter on my campus did the jean skirts on a Sweet Home Sorority night but we were required to wear T-shirt/polos approved by Panhel. I think it would be harder to pull off the denim and this look otherwise. I agree that sundresses might be a better way to go.
But then, my recruitment was really casual compared to others so...