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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ThxOne" data-source="post: 8785068" data-attributes="member: 675210">"According to <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/2834/pdf" target="_blank">Patrick Huber and Kathleen Drowne</a>, the term—originally an allusion to the sunburned red necks of farmers—was not always used as a slur amongst whites. For example, wearing red neckties and kerchiefs to political rallies, some southerners claimed the label as a “badge of class pride for a county’s populist voters.” I think only an ignorant person would attempt to use the term as an insult.</blockquote>

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