WE ARE PROUD TO BE REDNECKS: IT'S TIME TO RECLAIM THAT TERM
Stephen Smith, Wilma Lee Steele and Tina Russell | redneckrevolt | April 30th 2018
This article originally ran in The Guardian.
Recent waves of protests and strikes in West Virginia invoke the memory of a now notorious figure in American history: the redneck.
To call someone a “redneck” now divides us, when the term was created to unite us. And this distortion only benefits rednecks’ original enemies – corrupt politicians and big companies who don’t care about a multiracial alliance of hardworking Americans.
In West Virginia, the term “redneck” dates back to the early 1900s, a time when mineworkers faced the constant threat of death – from explosions, cave-ins and poor working conditions. A West Virginian enlisted in the armed forces during the first world war was less likely to die than one working in a coalmine.
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