Meaning

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

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

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

• (19th and 20th centuries) A Roman Catholic.