The word "redneck" comes from innocent origins but somehow morphed into something derogatory. Are modern-day rednecks really bigots and political extremists?
If you're one of the many, many people who summed up 2016 by calling it a "Dumpster Fire" congratulations, you've just been validated.
The American Dialect Society just released its Word of the Year for 2016, and they went with....