redneck

this classist, judgmental, and inflammatory term is used mostly of men. If you mean "bigot" or "racist" or "conservative," use those terms instead of the vague "redneck"; all it conveys is that you think the person is beneath you. Geoffrey Nunberg (Talking Right) offers a surprising perspective on the use of the term: "The word redneck is about 20 times more likely to appear in the pages of conservative publications like National Review than in the Nation or the American Prospect, chiefly because conservatives are fond of setting the word in the mouths of imaginary left-wing elitists in the course of reminding the good people of the heartland how much contempt liberals have for them. The same ratio applies to the dismissive 'flyover country,' which is ten times as likely to appear in National Review as in the Nation or the American Prospect."