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A simple question:
Why have "poor white people" - aka Rednecks and Hillbillies - always been seen as legitimate targets for vicious mockery and public ridicule by "mainstream" American society?
The answer to that question goes to the heart of early colonial American self-identity.
By Brian Halpin - Before We Were White4.8
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A simple question:
Why have "poor white people" - aka Rednecks and Hillbillies - always been seen as legitimate targets for vicious mockery and public ridicule by "mainstream" American society?
The answer to that question goes to the heart of early colonial American self-identity.

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