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The words “Jeff Foxworthy” and “Redneck” are synonymous with one another, Foxworthy’s made such a killing off of gently mocking his kin that virtually everybody loves him for it - rednecks included.

So it would be remiss of us not to define what, exactly, a redneck is. Foxworthy himself does it pretty well; however he likes to pepper his explanations with less-than-factual fabrications that, while hilarious, probably don’t describe EVERY dang redneck in the south. So here goes.

Generally speaking a redneck is one who lives in the southern half of the United States and, to a lesser extent, Canada. The redneck is a stereotype: they are seen as lower class, uncultured, generally genial by occasionally socially clueless, not to mention almost always Caucasian. Foxworthy has defined being a redneck as a “glorious lack of sophistication”, and is something that we’re all occasionally guilty of.

In other words, everybody can be a redneck. It’s just the people from Foxworthy’s neck of the woods (he’s from Hapeville, Georgia) that get branded as such the most.