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Semi-protected edit request on 11 November 2021

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Actually Redneck term comes from Striking miners that tied Red Bandanas around their necks during the march on Blair Mountain. Nothing to do with sunburns. 2001:5B0:43D2:53F8:C86B:4652:B988:84B (talk) 22:15, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 23:20, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
https://dailyyonder.com/the-unexpected-radical-roots-of-redneck/2022/09/05/ 2600:1014:B05C:8B72:0:4E:44F1:EF01 (talk) 15:21, 17 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
https://wvpublic.org/do-you-know-where-the-word-redneck-comes-from-mine-wars-museum-opens-revives-lost-labor-history/?amp=1 2600:1014:B05C:8B72:0:4E:44F1:EF01 (talk) 15:24, 17 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Here's another source:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25474784?searchText=west+virginia+mine+wars&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dwest%2Bvirginia%2Bmine%2Bwars&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3A74a376832404278e7d0256053c1e6503&seq=3 Jeff101 jr (talk) 20:42, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Nevermind I didn't read the later comment that added this. Jeff101 jr (talk) 20:43, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Completely False Entry

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The term red neck came from coal miners attempting to unionize. During a famous march the miners wore red bandanas and were called red necks. Who ever wrote the current entry is ignorant to the correct history of the term. 70.114.183.48 (talk) 15:59, 2 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The true source of the term redneck

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In west virginia in the early 1900s many if not most men found work in coal mines ran by corrupt and greedy companies that refused to pay them for the back breaking labor they endured with real currency instead they were given credits to shop at a company owned general store. Eventually they revolted against the owners of the mines and decided that bloodshed would be the only way to incite positive change and took up their rifles against the coal companies, which by this time had hired dozens of pinkerton men to quell the uprising. The result was a bloody battle that claimed many lives. One of the items sold cheaply in the company store were red bandannas so the miners bought one for each man and tied them around their necks so that they could identify one another during a battle. This way they didnt shoot one another. Thus birthing the modernized meaning of the term redneck 76.26.81.55 (talk) 13:28, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Are you referring to the West Virginia coal wars? 2601:601:D381:68C0:852A:43CE:20EC:1D5B (talk) 07:42, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Redneck possibly rooted in "cracker" culture + African-American "ghetto" culture

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I would like to add the following sentence to the article, same as found on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_(term).

In his essay titled "Black Rednecks and White Liberals", published in 2005, American economist and social philosopher Thomas Sowell argues, that the "ghetto" African-American culture originates in the dysfunctional white southern redneck culture, which came, in turn, from the "Cracker culture". 93.34.236.85 (talk) 22:58, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"West Virginia Mine Wars" should be correctly linked

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to this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_coal_wars Summerloud (talk) 07:29, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]