Redneck comes from working outside in the sun and getting a sunburn on the neck.
As far as this, it is amazing how Rangel feels -- and knows -- he can get by with the double standard and use a term that is unequivocably racial with impunity.
>>>>"Redneck comes from working outside in the sun and getting their necks sunburned">>>>
That is correct but there is even more. Rednecks were originally fair and blond Scot/Irish southerners who worked out in the sun and got their necks sunburned.