Peckerwood vs. Redneck — What's the Difference?

A white person, especially a Southerner, or one who is ignorant, rustic, or bigoted.

Redneck is a derogatory term chiefly, but not exclusively, applied to white Americans perceived to be crass and unsophisticated, closely associated with rural whites of the Southern United States. Its usage is similar in meaning to cracker (especially regarding Texas, Georgia, and Florida), hillbilly (especially regarding Appalachia and the Ozarks), and white trash (but without the last term's suggestions of immorality).

Peckerwood is a term used in the Southern United States for a woodpecker which is also used as an offensive epithet toward white people, especially poor rural whites. Originally an ethnic slur, the term has been embraced by a subculture related to prison gangs and outlaw motorcycle clubs.

A working-class white person from the southern US, especially a politically reactionary one

A white person, especially a poor one

Used as a disparaging term for a member of the white rural laboring class, especially in the southern United States.

A woodpecker.

A person regarded as having a provincial, conservative, often bigoted attitude.

Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a poor white person.

A poor, rural, usually white, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and northeast, especially one who has unsophisticated and backward beliefs; sometimes with additional connotations of being bigoted.

A woodpecker.

Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.

A peckerwood sawmill.

A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.

(prison slang) A white (male) inmate, especially one who is racist or who is a member of a race-based prison gang.

A Roman Catholic.

Bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects

A poor white person in the southern United States