Redneck vs Socialist - What's the difference?
redneck | socialist |
(slang, pejorative) An uneducated, unsophisticated, or poor caucasian person, typically used to describe residents (of any gender
(slang) The nickname given to miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.
(UK, archaic) The nickname given to Roman Catholics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
English ethnic slurs
Of, promoting, practicing, or characteristic of socialism.
* 1848 , , Principles of Political Economy , Book II, Chapter 1:
* 1949 , , "Why Socialism?", Monthly Review , May 1949:
One who practices or advocates socialism.
* 1848 , , Principles of Political Economy , Book II, Chapter 1:
As nouns the difference between redneck and socialist
is that redneck is an uneducated, unsophisticated, or poor caucasian person, typically used to describe residents (of any gender) of the rural Southern US while socialist is one who practices or advocates socialism.As an adjective socialist is
of, promoting, practicing, or characteristic of socialism.redneck
English
Noun
(en noun)Country Music Lyrics New Country Tunes) of the rural Southern US.
West Virginia Division of Culture and History
Synonyms
* cracker, hick, hillbilly, peckerwood, white trashDerived terms
* redneckish * redneckism * redneckyReferences
socialist
English
(Socialism)Adjective
(en adjective)- ... it must be remembered that in a Socialist farm or manufactory, each labourer would be under the eye not of one master, but of the whole community.
- I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.
Derived terms
* Union of Soviet Socialist RepublicsNoun
(en noun)- A contest, who can do most for the common good, is not the kind of competition which Socialists repudiate.