Miners are a different breed. My husband comes from a long line of WV coal miners. They are tough, independent minded, very much believe in God, family and country.
And they say what they believe and believe what they say.
His father was a red neck, one of the original miners who held the line in Appalachia. He died in the early 1950s.
I loved the scene in the movie Chernobyl where the commie leader shows up at the coal mine and tries to tell the miners that they work for him now. Tough men for sure.