redneck

1. (slang, US, usually derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A poor, rural, usually white, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and Northeast, especially one whose beliefs are seen as unsophisticated and backward; sometimes with additional connotations of being bigoted.USderogatoryethnicoffensiveslangslurusually

2. (by extension, derogatory) yokel, hick, country bumpkinExamples: "Sample a look back you look and find / Nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check"Synonyms: bogan, cracker, hick, hillbilly, peckerwood, white trash, adlay, bambroadlyderogatory

3. (historical, slang, US) Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.UShistoricalslang

4. (historical, slang, US) A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.UShistoricalslang

5. (UK, archaic, 19th and 20th centuries, religious slur) A Roman Catholic.UKarchaicslur