woolhat

plural woolhats

1. USA yokel or redneck.

   We're woolhats, red necks, white trash, crackers, the scum of the earth, the filth under their feet.

   1964, K. B. Gilden, Hurry sundown: Volume 1

   2 more examples

   From his "brass throat" poured such harangues of class hatred that his woolhat followers howled down opposing speakers and hurled clods at them.

   1939, Shields McIlwaine, The southern poor-white from Lubberland to Tobacco Road

   While it is easy for the sophisticates of today to assume the objection to racial integration came only from uneducated woolhats...

   2002, Will D. Campbell, The Stem of Jesse: The Costs of Community at a 1960's Southern School