redneck, cracker
(noun) a poor White person in the southern United States
Source: WordNet® 3.1
redneck (plural rednecks)
(slang, pejorative) A poor, rural, usually white and male, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and northeast, especially one who is unsophisticated and backward; sometimes with additional connotations of being bigoted.
(historical, slang, US) Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.
(historical, slang, US) A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.
(UK, archaic, 19th and 20th centuries) A Roman Catholic.
• bogan (Australia), cracker, hick, hillbilly, peckerwood, white trash
Source: Wiktionary
28 April 2024
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
