Personally, I consider the term "redneck" to be a badge of honor. It has been applied to many different groups in different countries, but in America it originated in 1921 when the West Virginia coal miners organized an army of 13000 men (wearing red bandannas around their necks as their insignia) and confronted the local corrupt law enforcement and mine owner's goons on Blair Mountain. They lost the battle but they won the war and as a result coal miners gained one of the strongest unions in the country.

The ironic thing is that the term originally referred to some folks who were pretty radical in their ideas about politics and economics. (Some would even claim to be Communists!) Over the decades it has been applied to a more and more conservative set of ideas, but those old populist anti-corporate views are still there in the older folks who self-identify as rednecks.

Educating anyone benefits everyone.