Reply #8: I am not entirely sure myself

[Mojorabbit]

but living in the south most of my life it was used in a kind of snobby way of talking about someone that had not much education and not much money nor social skills to fit in with the norm. Kind of like the redneck stereotype.

When my father brought my european portuguese mother (after they married) home to meet his southern baptist mother, she wanted to know if my mom was raised wearing a sarong. She never accepted her as she thought she was not white and worse she was Catholic.

Small town,ignorant, bigot, and self righteous christian she was. My dad never had much good to say about her. I think a lot of that is fading away as the years have passed at least in bigger towns.