Peckerwood - Wikipedia The peckerwood subculture has established street gangs that mix elements from white power skinhead culture and conventional street gang activity, such as illegal drugs
Peckerwood vs. Redneck — What’s the Difference? Peckerwood is a derogatory term historically used in the southern United States for poor, white, rural residents, implying racism and backwardness, while redneck refers to rural working-class white Americans, with connotations of rugged individualism
Feds indict 68 in California white supremacist gang bust Members of SFV Peckerwood distinguished themselves with tattoos of white supremacy iconography, such as swastikas or the symbol “88” which is the numerical code for “Heil Hitler,” to broadcast their white supremacist, extremist ideology
Central District of California | 68 Defendants Charged in Indictment of . . . According to the indictment that a grand jury returned on September 26, the Peckerwoods is a street gang based in communities in the San Fernando Valley whose members engage in a wide variety of criminal activity, including drug trafficking, violent crime, and fraud
Peckerwood - ADL The word "peckerwood" originated as an African American slang term for "woodpecker" in the 1800s, but by the early 1900s began to be applied as a racial epithet against White people, with a meaning similar to the term "white trash "