Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 22:48:28 -0500

From: "David A. Johns" djohns[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]PEACHNET.CAMPUS.MCI.NET

Subject: Re: ADS-L Digest - 25 Oct 1997 to 26 Oct 1997



At 10:06 AM 10/27/97 -0500, MMcDaniel wrote:



I think the term "redneck" does not mean what it used to. The

term is

somewhat self-deprecatingly applied, and has become more the

opposite

of "city slicker." There may be no racial overtones.



Here in Southeast Georgia working class whites (but not middle class

and up) have taken "redneck" as their term of choice, so that

particular group would enjoy having it as a school-sanctioned term.

But more educated whites would be offended by it, since to them it

has simply replaced "white trash" as a negative label for uneducated

country folk. And certainly no one would ever call a black person a

redneck; it's totally exclusionary in that dimension.



--

David Johns

Waycross College

Waycross, GA 31501