You might be a redneck

kimi

You might be a redneck if: It never occurred to you to be
offended by the phrase, 'One nation, under God.'


You might be a redneck if: You've never protested about
seeing the 10 Commandments posted in public places.


You might be a redneck if: You still say ' Christmas'
instead of 'Winter Festival.'


You might be a redneck if: You bow your head when someone
prays.


You might be a redneck if: You stand and place your hand
over your heart when they play the National Anthem


You might be a redneck if: You treat our armed forces
veterans with great respect, and always have.


You might be a redneck if: You've never burned an American
flag, nor intend to.


You might be a redneck if: You know what you believe and you
aren't afraid to say so, no matter who is listening.


You might be a redneck if: You respect your elders and
raised your kids to do the same.


You might be a redneck if: You'd give your last dollar to a
friend.



If you got this email from me, it is because I believe that
you, like me, have just enough Red Neck in you to have the
same beliefs as those talked about in this email.



God Bless the USA!

kimi

You might be a redneck if: It never occurred to you to be offended by the phrase, 'One nation, under God.'


You might be a redneck if: You've never protested about seeing the 10 Commandments posted in public places.



You might be a redneck if: You still say ' Christmas' instead of 'Winter Festival.'



You might be a redneck if: You bow your head when someone prays.



You might be a redneck if: You stand and place your hand over you heart when they play the National Anthem.



You might be a redneck if: You treat our armed forces veterans with great respect, and always have.



You might be a redneck if: You've never burned an American flag, nor intend to.



You might be a redneck if: You know what you believe and you aren't afraid to say so, no matter who is listening.



You might be a redneck if: You respect your elders and raised your kids to do the same.



You might be a redneck if: You'd give your last dollar to a friend.

1911a1-fan

REDNECK?, i always though thats what being a white american was

kimi

quote:Originally posted by 1911a1fan
REDNECK?, i always though thats what being a white american was


Credit the construction of this email to the politically correct integrity of politicians. This time, it's someone on the side of the Grand Old Party and McCain's camp, which shows their manly way of calling for whitey's vote. [:D][:o)]

dan kelly

if thats all it takes to be a rednack then im a redneck alright, but those things dont make someone a redneck!
those things are common decency and the correct way to live!
if i live my life following all those beliefs then i`ll die content!

txlawdog

I like saltine crackers and ritz crackers.

I'm a redneck, your welcome.

kimi

Hillbillies, Rednecks, Crackers, and Gringos

http://www.scotshistoryonline.co.uk/rednecks/rednecks.html

Many words commonly used in America today such as Hillbillies and Rednecks have their origins in our Scottish roots. While the following three terms are associated today with the American South and southern culture, their origins are distinctly Scottish and Ulster-Scottish (Scots-Irish), and date to the mass immigration of Scottish Lowland and Ulster Presbyterians to America during the 1700's.

HILLBILLY (Hillbillies)

The origin of this American nickname for mountain folk in the Ozarks and in Appalachia comes from Ulster. Ulster-Scottish (The often incorrectly labeled "Scots-Irish") settlers in the hill-country of Appalachia brought their traditional music with them to the new world, and many of their songs and ballads dealt with William, Prince of Orange, who defeated the Catholic King James II of the Stuart family at the Battle of the Boyne, Ireland in 1690.


William of Orange




The signing of the National Covenant, Greyfriar's Kirkyard, 1638

Supporters of King William were known as "Orangemen" and "Billy Boys" and their North American counterparts were soon referred to as "hillbillies". It is interesting to note that a traditional song of the Glasgow Rangers football club today begins with the line, "Hurrah! Hurrah! We are the Billy Boys!" and shares its tune with the famous American Civil War song, "Marching Through Georgia".

Stories abound of American National Guard units from Southern states being met upon disembarking in Britain during the First and Second World Wars with the tune, much to their displeasure! One of these stories comes from Colonel Ward Schrantz, a noted historian, Carthage Missouri native, and veteran of the Mexican Border Campaign, as well as the First and Second World Wars, documented a story where the US Army's 30th Division, made up of National Guard units from Georgia, North and South Carolina and Tennessee arrived in the United Kingdom."a waiting British band broke into welcoming American music, and the soldiery, even the 118th Field Artillery and the 105 Medical Battalion from Georgia, broke into laughter.

The excellence of intent and the ignorance of the origins of the American music being equally obvious. The welcoming tune was "Marching Through Georgia."

REDNECKS

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.

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." It makes you wonder if the originators of the ever-present "redneck" joke are aware of the term's origins - Rednecks?

*Another term for Presbyterians in Ireland was a "Blackmouth". Members of the Church of Ireland (Anglicans) used this as a slur, referring to the fact that one could tell a Presbyterian by the black stains around his mouth from eating blackberries while at secret, illegal Presbyterian Church Services in the countryside.

CRACKER

Another Ulster-Scot term, a "cracker" was a person who talked and boasted, and "craic" (Crack) is a term still used in Scotland and Ireland to describe "talking", chat or conversation in a social sense ("Let's go down to the pub and have a craic"; "what's the craic"). The term, first used to describe a southerner of Ulster-Scottish background, later became a nickname for any white southerner, especially those who were uneducated.

And while not an exclusively Southern term, but rather referring in general to all Americans, the origins of this word are related to the other three.

GRINGO

Often used in Latin America to refer to people from the United States, "gringo" also has a Scottish connection. The term originates from the Mexican War (1846-1848), when American Soldiers would sing Robert Burns's "Green Grow the Rashes, O!", or the very popular song "Green Grows the Laurel" (or lilacs) while serving in Mexico, thus inspiring the locals to refer to the Yankees as "gringos", or "green-grows". The song "Green Grows the Laurel" refers to several periods in Scottish and Ulster-Scottish history; Jacobites might "change the green laurel for the "bonnets so blue" of the exiled Stewart monarchs of Scotland during the Jacobite Rebellions of the late 1600's - early 1700's. Scottish Lowlanders and Ulster Presbyterians would change the green laurel of James II in 1690 for the "Orange and Blue" of William of Orange, and later on, many of these Ulstermen would immigrate to America, and thus "change the green laurel for the red, white and blue."

Another account of Gringo from Tom Mathews



"Gringo" is a corrected form of griego as used in the ancient Spanish expression "hablar en griego", that is, to speak an unintelligible language or "to speak Greek." Which is also a Latin expression "Graecum est; non potest legi" (It is Greek; it cannot be read).