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The term redneck has a long and storied history, with a surprising connection to the labor unions of Appalachia, and although the term has been used both as a slur and as an honorable label, it has almost always been used to describe the same group of people, poor, uneducated, southern white laborers.
West Virginia's Blair Mountain Was the Site of the Largest Armed Labor Uprising by Coal Miners. It's Finally Getting the Remembrance It Deserves.
Federal labor officials fined the United Mine Workers of America union $13.3 million for, among other things, property damage at the picket lines.