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  • Now we are 'rednecks'

    10/20/2008 5:59:55 PM PDT · by Salena Zito · 62 replies · 2,315+ views
    On the heels of telling the Pittsburgh Tribune Review that racism would play into the vote in Western Pennsylvania for president next month, Rep. Jack Murtha told local Pittsburgh television station WTAE that it's difficult for many in the area to change, saying just five to 10 years ago the entire area was "redneck." You have to wonder how residents of Pennsylvania like the descriptive phrases that have been piled on in the past few months. First, it was bitter and God and gun clinging, then it was racist, now they are rednecks. In an interview with reporter David Brown...