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Pecan_Creek Veteran user The Nation of TEXAS! 323 Posts |
But as I understand it , it's modern useage in the American South is from the miners. Maybe they just brought it back. I do know of the Irish links to appalachia. Who knows?
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Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts |
I suppose there is a link there somewhere. The mayor of Matewan was Sid Hatfield... yes, THOSE Hatfields.
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Pecan_Creek Veteran user The Nation of TEXAS! 323 Posts |
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On 2012-07-05 16:44, Michael Baker wrote: What are you sayin 'bout my kin? |
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Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts |
Nothing that you haven't already by moving to Texas.
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Tom Jorgenson Inner circle LOOSE ANGLES, CALIFORNIA 4451 Posts |
That's better?
We dance an invisible dance to music they cannot hear.
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Woland Special user 680 Posts |
Hi Pecan, I think if you'd ask most people in the South where the word redneck comes from or why they use it, very few of them would mention striking miners or Scottish Covenanters. But the term was widely used in XVIIth century Scotland to mean "Presbyterians" and that is the way it was first used on this side of the Atlantic, as well.
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
And I seriously doubt that anyone would answer "Presbyterians" if asked to define a redneck.
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
I think it comes from Ireland, people out in the country get red necks from the sun burning their neck as they bend to pick crops. They, the city folk, call them cultches or something like that there. People from the countryside are slower as things move slower in the sticks than in the city and they talk slower and so on.
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Woland Special user 680 Posts |
Let's not confuse etymology with current usage. In fact, the etymology of a word often sheds no light whatsoever on its current usage.
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
From the splash pattern you can tell what speed the victim was ejected. The torn and twisted label indicates there was more than one person in the car and one of them was a nasty peice of work. Darn awful way to go. The bottle must have been half full. One less bud.
Anyone here following True Blood?
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
We will all be rednecks soon. You are only at the brink of poverty at the moment and there is a long way to go yet. I have seen the future and it's murder.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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Steve_Mollett Inner circle Eh, so I've made 3006 Posts |
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On 2012-07-06 07:11, mastermindreader wrote: More like "Baptist" or "Pentecostal."
Author of: GARROTE ESCAPES
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
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On 2012-07-06 07:37, Woland wrote: How so? One could also argue that etymology encodes history which in turn offers insight regarding context.
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Woland Special user 680 Posts |
Hi Jonathan, I did not say that etymology never offers insights regarding the meaning of a word, however an excessive reliance on (sometimes mistaken) etymology to parse the meaning of a word as it is currently used is often a manifestation of the "genetic fallacy." In the current case, the term redneck is used to describe a certain identifiable class of people, and that usage has nothing to do with either Scottish Covenanters or Kentucky miners.
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
"Redneck is a historically derogatory slang term used in reference to poor, uneducated white farmers, especially from the southern United States."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
That's been one usage. But it appears to have been "taken back," like "Indian." I think this is primarily due to Jeff Foxworthy, a computer guy.
My Grandpa and us that lived with him I always thought of as more like "Hillbillies," because... well... we lived on a hill.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
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Devious Inner circle 2120 Posts |
I wish to thank everyone who chimed in.
I never expected to learn so much on this topic. Now, off to solve some more crimes! |
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