Ophelia wrote:
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> "Whirled Peas" > wrote in message
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>> No problem with that description at all. Google tells me that the term
>> redneck was also applied to the Scottish Covenanters in the mid-17th
>> century, before the Bishops War and the Cromwell era. Later, they were
>> just known as Presbyterians. About the same time in Northern England,
>> the Catholics were labeled rednecks. Have no idea *why* the term was
>> chosen for either group.
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> Well I wasn't around in the 17th century but I am from the North of
> England and I had never heard of that term until I came here

Bit of a time/space distortion bubble then, innit?

>> Recently, in the US, the term has taken on an additional meaning as an
>> ultra-conservative, neocon or reactionary.
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> Thanks So it isn't seen as in insult now?


Libitards _always_ insult.


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