Derogatory term typically meaning ignorant, white and Southern. Although derived from reference to rural, laboring whites whose necks turned red in the sun, the term is now used for any lower-class white population taken to be racist and reactionary including others in the interior US and Australia. “Redneck,” along with “hillbilly,” “cracker,” “trailer-park trash” and “white trash,” glosses a racial and class position taken to be synonymous with anti-government and racist sentiments combined with Bible belt religion. These are the last “socially approved” racist epithets.