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I think the term became "popularized" by Radical groups after the 1967 US riots to offensively refer to White Males. "Honky" seems close to Hungarian. Hungary is a country that is not known for having a Black population.
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In Prohibition days, illegal bars were called honky tonks. After Prohibition, the name stuck, primarily in the south, for local bars, usually not the best.
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