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I've only ever heard* hogs used to refer to rednecks.
This is redneck erasure. Redneck is a classist slur originally used positively by appalacian communists as they wore red bandanas to show solidarity with mostly non-white farm workers. It then evolved into its modern meaning of backwards rural whites. Most famously the rednecks were the ones that took up arms at the battle of Blair Mountain which is also sometimes referred to as the second American civil war as it involved more guns and people than any battle of the 1800s. It was also the first time bombs were dropped on US soil, shortly before the Tulsa massacre.