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Redneck vs Woolhat - What's the difference?

redneck | woolhat |

As nouns the difference between redneck and woolhat

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 woolhat is a yokel or redneck.

redneck

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (slang, pejorative) An uneducated, unsophisticated, or poor caucasian person, typically used to describe residents (of any gender Country Music Lyrics New Country Tunes) of the rural Southern US.
  • (slang) The nickname given to miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921. West Virginia Division of Culture and History
  • (UK, archaic) The nickname given to Roman Catholics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

    • Synonyms

    * cracker, hick, hillbilly, peckerwood, white trash

    Derived terms

    * redneckish * redneckism * rednecky

    References

    English ethnic slurs

    woolhat

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US) A yokel or redneck.
  • * 1939 , Shields McIlwaine, The southern poor-white from Lubberland to Tobacco Road
    • From his "brass throat" poured such harangues of class hatred that his woolhat followers howled down opposing speakers and hurled clods at them.
  • * 1964 , K. B. Gilden, Hurry sundown: Volume 1
    • We're woolhats , red necks, white trash, crackers, the scum of the earth, the filth under their feet.
  • * 2002 , Will D. Campbell, The Stem of Jesse: The Costs of Community at a 1960's Southern School
    • While it is easy for the sophisticates of today to assume the objection to racial integration came only from uneducated woolhats ...