Hey everybody sorry I was late getting back to this, just a busy weekend..I was surprised that there were quite a few if you guys that were on the money with the answer..The term redneck came from West Virginia and the battle of Blair Mountain when the union coal miners organized in madison WV and marched to Blair mtn. in the thousands to fight the coal companies who were trying to keep coal mining non-union.The coal companies formed a militia to battle the union miners.So to tell friend from foe the union miners wore red bandanas around there necks.sadly the union miners were outgunned and outmanned and lost the battle and thousands were arrested but won in court.This battle was also the first time in history a bomb was dropped from an airplane.So ther it is like it or not its the truth to learn more go to historychannel.com.