Trailer trash: fightin' mad, want Dubya (the “realism & idealism” of academia loses to hillbillies)

Sydney Morning Herald ^ | October 29, 2004 | Peter Hartcher

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I love that guy. I have read all his Flashman novels--about a dozen times each.

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"I'll take "hillbillies" over intelligentsia anytime. Who'll stop and help your wife or sister change their tire? Who still says "Yes ma'am" and "No ma'am?" Who enlists for the combat arms? Not effete pacifist intellectuals, that's fer sure."

As Larry the Cable Guy says, everybody makes fun of rednecks...till their car breaks down.

Hand me that socket wrench, will you?

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"The funny thing is that the intellectuals were so intellectual as to become shills for communism and socialism. Still are I guess."

Can you think of a leftist who has a really high IQ? Documented, so we know he's not fibbing?

Stormin' Norman Schwartzkopf sports a 180; where's his counterpart on the left?

[colorado tanker]

You can always tell when they think they're losing - they bash the voters.

[7thson]

And a very good say, sir. I salute you and would not want to be at odds with you. I don't know how to shoot and do not own a firearm though I believe strongly in the 2nd Amendment and everyones right to own one, if they want. I don't hunt, fish, hike, or do any other outdoor stuff other than trying to maintain the bit of property I reside on. I wish I knew more. I have used my fists more often than not when I was younger but my last time was back in the 80'2. I am retired Navy and though my service time was not extraordinary, I am proud of the time I put in and love most of the moments. But when push comes to shove, I will stand with you and people like you. I too, just want to be left alone but feel a day is coming when the young healthy ones like us will have to fight the terrorists overseas while us old codgers have to fight the enemies within back here in the states. As they say on Sean Hannity's program, you're a proud American!

[Armedanddangerous]

LET me tell you about those dumb hillbillies. They are the ones who will stop and help you if you are standing by the road with a flat tire. They are the ones who will organize a clothing drive and invite you to stay with them if your house burns down and you lose everything. EVEN IF they only met you last week.

They are the first ones to sign up for the military when our country is attacked, and hillbillies are big on flag stickers for the backs of their cars and poles with old glory flying in the front yard.

They go to church on average more often than any other part of the country, volunteer to coach little league more often and take their kids hunting and fishing more often.

Let's talk about the kids for a minute. On the average, a more polite, well mannered bunch of kids could not be found than a bunch of kids from a hillbilly school. That's because they were raised right. Raised to act like citizens, not junior gang bangers.

Apparently us HILLBILLIES are slowing down the progressive push in this country...well boo hoo. If they don't like it, they ought to declare Taxachussetts a separate socialist republic and put up a nice high red brick wall around them.

I say go for it. What is the downside?

[Wallace T.]

I'm not aware the Scots-Irish had a major impact on the settlement of Australia. The largest emigration from Northern Ireland occurred in the 18th Century, before Australia became a major focus of emigration from the British Isles. After 1800, the increasing industrialization of Ulster, the removal of legal barriers from Protestant dissenters, and the relative non-dependence on potatoes as a staple tended to keep them in Northern Ireland. The most significant British Isles group to settle Australia was the English, especially those around London, which explains the resemblance between Cockney and Australian English. In the latter 18th and early 19th Centuries, London drew many settlers fron East Anglia and the Midlands, basically the same area from which the Puritans originated before emigrating to New England. The second group were the southern, or original, Irish. Many Irish Australians trace their ancestry to Potato Famine era immigrants, although Irishmen were among the first white settlers of the continent. I suspect most of Famine-era immigrants have fourth and fifth cousins in places like Boston, New York, and Chicago. Most of them are Catholics, and a majority of that nation's Catholics (about 25% of its population) are probably of Irish descent.

The British Isles component of the Australian population is basically the same as the British Isles component of the U.S. Northeast and Great Lakes regions: Eastern English (Puritans who morphed into Yankees) and Southern Irish. (Until 1960, Australia received little Continental European immigration and none from outside Europe.) The political lines in Australia resembled those in the Northeast in the late 1800s: English Tories (like the Yankee Republicans) were the political establishment; Irish Laborites (like Irish Democrats) being the main challengers.

The Scots-Irish derived from a different region of the British Isles. The 17th Century emigrants to Northern Ireland came mostly from the Scottish Lowlands and the English border region. They were Protestant, mostly Presbyterian, and their ancestors had spoken English, or more precisely Lallans, for centuries prior to their immigration to Ulster. Racially, they were a mixture of Germanic (Anglians, Vikings) and Celtic (Picts, Britons, Gaels) strains. In Northern Ireland, they mixed further with Highland Scots, English, Huguenots, and the original Irish.

A majority of the Scots-Irish that emigrated to America in the 18th Century settled the interior of Pennsylvania and Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Pennsylvania Dutch and Tidewater English also settled these areas. From these crucibles, a wave of mostly Scots-Irish settlers spread westward and southwestward. Their descendants dominate Appalachia, the Upper South, the Ohio Valley area of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, the border states of Missouri and Kentucky, and the Southwestern states of Texas and Oklahoma.

These people, who wholly identify themselves as Americans, are very well represented in the military. Along with the mostly English descended citizens of the Lower South, they represent the core group supporting traditional values, conservative politics, and evangelical Christianity in America. To a great extent, they have prevented this nation from going as far down the road to Gramscian Marxism and socialism as have the other Western democracies, Australia included.

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Intellectuals

[gobucks]

I own this book: it absolutely stunned me. The great leading lights of the left ...

and the utter, crushing sadness of their family lives.


The one common denominator: Daddy was not there to protect them when they were young.