[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

If it is an evolutionary advantage then they would out populate the rest of us. Seems to me there are more rednecks than Ashkenazi Jews. So are we to assume being redneck is an evolutionary advantage?

Well, no, since rednecks (to my knowledge at least) haven't endured 1500 years of pogroms, topped off with a Holocaust.

[wideawake]

Well, both sides in the Civil War did sustain a high number of redneck casualties - including a large cohort of rednecks who had yet to reproduce.

[Wallace T.]

Don’t forget the largely Scots-Irish origins of the Americans who are often called rednecks. They spent centuries fighting the English in Scotland and the old-stock Irish in Northern Ireland. They may have perpetrated a few massacres, but they were victims as well. Their ranks were thinned as a result of the religious and dynastic wars in the British Isles in the 17th and 18th Centuries. The Highland Clearances caused many Scots to starve or emigrate. The Scots-Irish were also lesser victims of the Anglican Ascendancy in Ireland, even though their immigration from Scotland had originally been encouraged to provide the English crown with manpower to fight the Irish Catholics. Many Scots and Scots-Irish were indentured servants in America and the West Indies, and were often treated worse than black slaves. Of course, they never suffered pogroms or a Holocaust, but their history was nonetheless far more tragic than what the English, French, and Spanish had experienced in the century before their immigration to the New World.