Sorry my spelling of pejoratives is off. Of course redneck and hillbilly are racial slurs. People use them as pejoratives for ignorant white people. Hillbilly was derived from a term for German immigrants in the Appalachians of Kentuckys. If Lyle was black no one on this site would EVER refer to him as a nigger but somehow redneck is an exceptable racist term thrown around all the time.