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