You weren't calling out the inappropriate use. You said we didn't have people who would meet that description in San Diego. You are completely incorrect about that, if one were so inclined to use the term. I wasn't taking a position on the term itself, just your lack of knowledge about the place I live. Don't hurt yourself getting down off that high horse.
I live in San Diego too. I'm also from the Midwest/South where there are rednecks that are Democrats. The term doesn't mean what you think it means (at least based on how the author used it and how you continue to contextualize it).
I've also paid attention to the doxxing that's been going on in r/SanDiego and most (if not all) of these people live in the city and are business owners. They are hardly definitional rednecks.
I think what we are seeing is it's open season on poor whites. My family comes from Kentucky where there truly are rednecks and hillbillies. People, like that other user, are trying to expand its definition to include people that frankly are just normal conservatives in metro areas.
We saw this with the word thug. Everyone know what you're doing if you call black people from the suburbs thugs.
