Rednecks?

[Peaches-n-Cream]

I am literally a redneck this week since I forgot to put sun block on parts of my back and the back of my neck. OUCH!

Seriously though, I think that rednecks are country folks and proud of it. I wanted to know the differences between rednecks and hillbillies. I think that there might be some overlap. There are quite a few rednecks and/or hillbillies in the more rural parts of New York State. I looked up the terms in www.dictionary.com.

red·neck
n. Offensive Slang
Used as a disparaging term for a member of the white rural laboring class, especially in the southern United States.

A white person regarded as having a provincial, conservative, often bigoted attitude.

n : a poor white person in the southern United States [syn: cracker]


hill·bil·ly
n. Informal pl. hill·bil·lies
A person from the backwoods or a remote mountain area.

[hill + Billy a nickname for William.]

n : a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person [syn: bushwhacker]