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Hey ferrot,
The terms actually describe two groups of people in a similar region, with very different backgrounds. Rednecks were a group of non-union workers who formed an army to literaly battle the union-busters(who were paid soldiers by the owners of certain very corperations who refused to recognise the unions. The men wore red hankercheifs around there neck as identification and the term redneck was born. They were considered hard working people who simply wouldn't put up with no shit. Even if that meant marching to gun fight they simply couldn't win.
Hillbillies were families who lived in the Southern Apalachan mountains before the Tenesse river damn project came through. Hillbillies lived in there own little world, seperated from society. With there seperation came inbreading and low test scores, they were also cheep and hard working sorce of labor for large southern projects-such as the many damns built on the Tennesse River.
Put the two together and you got NASCAR and country music.
As far as racism, both hillbillies and rednecks have probably harbored more racism than any other social group. And they are both proud to be called either one.
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