So I suppose I should explain..........
First of all, no, I'm not from the south, secondly, I don't fix everything with duct tape(I much prefer my blow torch(Oh, look, pretty fire))
When I was little, I was the poor white kid. I never had any money, and where I live, white kids are the minority. Most of them didn't have to work when they were 12, I did. I worked outside in the heat with the sun beating down on me. As a result I had a permanent farmer's tan and sunburnt Neck, and one day someone called me a redneck because of that burn. Creative, I know.
Anyways that's how we get most of my name, the strange spelling is because in my neighborhood we had gang issues. A local crew of crips were the dominant gang in my area and so you didn't ever spell anything with a ck(crip killer). I wasn't a crip and actually hated them so instead of spelling it rednec like they would have, I spelled it rednek.
Around here, everyone now calls me Rednek, so I always capitalize the R cuz it's my name, capitalize the K because of it's original signifigance, and capitalize the N to seperate Red from the rest of it because when people don't want to say my whole name they say Red(plus it's the color of my hair, which I fluffing LOVE).
Anyways, I now use rednek for everything and would one day like to change my name to it( I feel like it's ME).