redneck
A poor, rural, usually white, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and Northeast, especially one whose beliefs are seen as unsophisticated and backward; sometimes with additional connotations of being bigoted.
yokel, hick, country bumpkin
Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.
A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.
A Roman Catholic.
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