Posted on 10/18/2006 6:32:11 AM PDT by rmgatto
About a year ago, before he was running for the Senate, James Webb took a colleague to the mountains of southwest Virginia to do some research for a movie they were working on.
Rob Reiner , meet my cousin Jewel and her husband, Buck. Jewel made a home-cooked meal for Webb and his producer-director friend. She pointed across the way to a nearby hollow and said:
"Ah wuz bawn rat ovah theyah." That's Reiner on the phone from Los Angeles, doing a mountain accent.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Jim, lose the hairpiece and go back to writing fiction instead of living it. You're a talented but nasty little troll--not a leader.
"That's Reiner on the phone from Los Angeles, doing a mountain accent."
That's a Tidewater accent, DUmmie. I suspect he made it up. I know SW Virginia well, and they do not drop the "r," they draw it out. It would be more like "Ah wuz bowrrn raht ovurr tharr."
What a wonderful man Mr Webb is. If only my daughters didn`t have husbands. And, that great American, Rob Reiner, supports him. Isn`t that wonderful! I feel happy all over. Wonder when Mr Webb is going to be on Oprah? I know he feels our pain. After he gets elected, its going to be so much fun trying to guess what will get his vote.
Webb may have had an honorable service but now he's just another turn-coat anti-American during a time of war in my books. His past does not negate his present disgraceful attitude.
The Washington Post has abandoned any sense of fairness in this race, and have today editorialized against the reelection of Allen. Of course, any Post watcher over the past three months could see it coming.
The origins of this term Redneck are Scottish and refer to supporters of the National Covenant and The Solemn League and Covenant, or "Covenanters", largely Lowland Presbyterians, many of whom would flee Scotland for Ulster (Northern Ireland) during persecutions by the British Crown. The Covenanters of 1638 and 1641 signed the documents that stated that Scotland desired the Presbyterian form of church government and would not accept the Church of England as its official state church.
http://www.scotshistoryonline.co.uk/rednecks/rednecks.html
Many Covenanters signed in their own blood and wore red pieces of cloth around their necks as distinctive insignia; hence the term "Red neck", (rednecks) which became slang for a Scottish dissenter*. One Scottish immigrant, interviewed by the author, remembered a Presbyterian minister, one Dr. Coulter, in Glasgow in the 1940's wearing a red clerical collar -- is this symbolic of the "rednecks"?
Since many Ulster-Scottish settlers in America (especially the South) were Presbyterian, the term was applied to them, and then, later, their Southern descendants. One of the earliest examples of its use comes from 1830, when an author noted that "red-neck" was a "name bestowed upon the Presbyterians."
The Post is never one to let the facts get in the way of a good story line. Maybe the article should be titled "Don't Call Me Waterman".
Yes, decades ago, and there is no reason to go on after this basic statement with any details.
TOWEL HEADS????
A candidate for the U.S. Senate uses the term "Towel Heads?"
Of course, the Compost lets him get away with it.
FWIW, Born Fighting reads like a white supremecist handbook.
I grew up Presbyterian in a small (at the time) Texas town outside of Houston. While there were 2 Baptist churches in town, we had to travel to another city to attend services. lol Folks definately 'looked at us funny', and now I find out why... we were rednecks!
I thought the term came from when the miners were trying to get unionized.
See? Just more proof that he hates women.
And I thought the term refferred to farmers with sunburnt necks :)
OUCH!!!!!!!!!!
You only said what I was thinking....
And the press made a huge deal about macaca which took days to figure out was an insult to 3 people on the face of the planet. Towel-head????? My blood pressure just shot up 50 points.
Of course, Pravda here isn't going to give even one example, cause as we know, racial slurs are only relevant if the Post can accuse Allen of making/thinking them.
The most important goal for November 7 is insuring that the Post's despicable campaign against the Senator goes down in flames.
"someone is found" should say "someone is from"
They're not rednecks, they're Appalachian-Americans!
LOL!
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