"Redneck" is a derogatory term for rural white Southern Americans which originated in the 19th century as a term with sociopolitical connotations. Since then, the term "Redneck" has been applied to poor Southern whites, white farmers within the Democratic Party who supported its populist reforms, white Presbyterians living in North Carolina, white coal miners who belonged to labor unions, and any white racist regardless of birthplace. The term originated with the sunburn on the backs of poor white farmers' necks after long days of working in the fields, and it was soon adopted as a political descriptor, with a Mississippi newspaper saying that "rednecks" would be among those who would vote in the 1891 Mississippi Democratic Party primaries. By 1910, Mississippi politician James K. Vardaman's supporters began to describe themselves proudly as "rednecks" and wear red neckerchiefs to political rallies and picnics. Additionally, coal miners sympathetic to labor unions during the Coal Wars of 1890-1930 wore red bandanas as a show of support for the strikers, coming to be known as "rednecks". While the term "redneck" initially described populist farmers who occasionally allied with African-American farmers in an agrarian revolt against the conservative Bourbon/Redeemer Southern Democrats during the 1880s and 1890s, the term "redneck" has recently become associated with rrural, conservative whites across the United States, who are stereotyped as holding racist views, dressing in Levi's jeans and cowboy boots, drinking beer and whiskey, supporting George Wallace's presidential candidacy in 1968 or the Republican Party after the 1970s, and other qualities perceived as "backwards" and "uncouth".