• flamingleg@lemmy.ml
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    8 hours ago

    i found it pretty interesting that the slur ‘redneck’ originally referred to striking labourers who participated in the battle of blair mountain. I’m incredibly cynical mind you, but it revealed to me why the term is culturally contested even to this day.

    rednecks were unionists