Although modern politics has changed things, rednecks have historically been anti authority and pro labor. Building a rural/urban alliance like Bill Clinton did would genuinely create an entirely new era of politics that would be friendly to liberal leftist ideologies.
Not a redneck but a collegue of mine said to me dead serious that a planned economy is not Communist, because big corporations use it.
What are you gonna do with people that seemingly barely manage to find their mouth to put food in it?!