It is a compliment. Even some of the insults liberals make when referring to red necks don't even make sense when you actually think about them, like comparing rednecks to cockroaches... what that they'll survive a nuclear apocalypse? Damn right they fuckin will. They'll be swigging moonshine and watching the bright flashes on the horizon as cities vaporize and they'll just go on about their lives like nothing of meaning was lost.