Naturally

After Fox 7's Crystal Cotti calls out a Chronicle contributor for using the term "redneck fiefdom" in reference to Mustang Ridge in a discussion about the illegal immigrant detention center / "wetback" flap, the Chronicle's response is typical: ethnic pejoratives are A-OK as long as they're aimed at white people (and especially Southerners).

Mississippi civil rights activist Will Campbell used to keep an original Allen and Hatley political cartoon posted on his wall. It showed two men talking - one is black and the other is white: The black man says to the white,

Here's why I worry about liberals, Lester. What do you call a poor person from Puerto Rico?

A Hispanic-surnamed American.

How about an illiterate Sioux?

A disadvantaged Native American, of course.

And a dirt farmer of Scots-Irish ancestry?

A redneck, naturally.

Naturally.