"Wisconsin lit a fire that I saw clear down in the swamplands of Georgia"

[James48]

10. History of the term "Redneck"

goes back to the 1880's.

Around 1910 the United Mine Workers adopted the red neckerchief as a symbol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck

"The origin of redneck to mean "a union man" or "a striker" remains uncertain, but according to linguist David W. Maurer, the former definition of the word probably dates at least to the 1910s, if not earlier. The use of redneck to designate "a union member" was especially popular during the 1920s and 1930s in the coal-producing regions of southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and western Pennsylvania, where the word came to be specifically applied to a miner who belonged to a union."


Jeana Brown is one of the organizers of "The Redneck Party" in Georgia. Bless her heart she is one hell of a rabel rouser.

See her video on this page for some real inspiration:
http://www.redneckparty.org/