I actually get the redneck label thing. I guess around here (south of Kansas City) I see redneck as an insult when it is thrown at me. I'm fairly intelligent, not terribly racist, don't cuss in front of children/old people/etc, fairly respectful if the setting calls for it etc. I see a redneck (around here anyway) as the dumbfuck you see at the mud races with 11 kids in diapers/shorts only, no sunscreen on the 1 year old in august, drunk as **** on whatevercheapassbeer screaming obscenities not afraid to pick a fight even though he's 120 lbs soaking wet. Complete ****ing loser that is going to throw his family in a single cab truck with no belts and drive home drunk.
I'm not a fan of being lumped in with ignorant people, and I feel that being called a reneck/white trash is calling me ignorant.
Gas station talk, mostly, "is that a mud whomper"
In college I had a chevy 1 ton on 40s. Many times a week you get to hear about uncle trailer park that has one that would wax its ass, has dana rockwell axles under it, drove straight up a wall, on and on.