Date:  Fri, 31 Oct 1997 13:59:12 +0000
From:  David Bergdahl <bergdahl[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OAK.CATS.OHIOU.EDU>
Subject: Neck Hue

In this university town in Appalachian Ohio "redneck" is currently the
term-of-abuse for local kids (not townies, not university faculty brats)
in the Middle School. Athens Middle School is the first site of social
class mixing and social class stereotyping runs rampant, esp. among
university kids.

Competing terms are "Rutter" [after a local family name], "wanker" [<
British slang?] or "plugger" [< use of chewing tobacco?]. Fifteen to
twenty years ago when my older kids were at AMS, the competing
terms were "ridge-runner" and "hill-jack."
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