Drudge Retort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs

As many as 300 people from two feuding families began a riot yesterday outside a courthouse in Marion, Ala. For nearly an hour, they wielded knives, clubs and even a cantaloupe and a plate of food. The police chief, who was struck in the head with a tire iron, called for help from more than a half-dozen different agencies.

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Distant kin to the Hatfields and McCoys?

I thought this thread would be about redneckshill's funny posts.

I thought it would be a brief family history of the goatman clan.

I thought it would be a brief family history of the goatman clan.

Could be. WE are always butting heads

I dunno it just seems like folks on the DR automatically scream "Redneck" in regards to anyone from a Southern state or a Red state and that is just so biased.

Signed a proud Massachusetts bred and raised Redneck

I dunno it just seems like folks on the DR automatically scream "Redneck" in regards to anyone from a Southern state or a Red state and that is just so biased.

As I've always said -- prejudice and bias exists everywhere. The ones screaming that all southerners are rednecks just validate me.

I dunno it just seems like folks on the DR automatically scream "Redneck" in regards to anyone from a Southern state or a Red state and that is just so biased.

Drive through some of the back woods sections of upstate NY, you'll find no shortage of rednecks.

I always heard that the term "redneck" actually specifically referred to farmers from Georgia who had red necks from the red Georgia clay. I don't know, it's just what I always heard and I lived most of my life in various parts of the south.

Drive through some of the back woods sections of upstate NY, you'll find no shortage of rednecks.

#7 | Posted by jpw

Same holds true for South Boston MA, Fresno CA etc. mighty fine folks everywhere who aren't afraid to stand up to the PC/Libs nonsense

Haw-Haw!
Lookit that stupid hillbilly!

We uns in the north ain't rednecks. We're white trash.

who had red necks from the red Georgia clay

I never heard that one.

I always thought it was referring to the sunburned neck that is part of the "farmer tan", neck and arms but nothing else.

A proud liberal told me it was a union worker that described the red bandanas they wore for solidarity.

BUt when they want to bash the south, they forget that one. Oh, those silly chameleon-like liberals. LOL

findarticles.com

We need more amateur sports like this. Money is ruining baseball, football,etc.

Hogue said the rioters were "throwing jack irons, throwing tire irons, anything they could get their hands on." Some people carried baseball bats and brooms.

Brooms?

S'rsly?

Who brings a broom to a tire iron fight?

...and where's Richard Dawson when you need him?

Be Well.

en.wikipedia.org

various sources of redneck.

Who brings a broom to a tire iron fight?

Samantha Stephens... and she would win.

...and where's Richard Dawson when you need him?

You are way behind the times, Spud. He was replaced by Louie Anderson, Al "Flannel Man" Borland (Richard Karn), and most recently John O'Hurley.

Samantha Stephens... and she would win.

Actually, she wouldn't even hafta bring a broom.

She could just wiggle her nose.

You are way behind the times, Spud. He was replaced by Louie Anderson, Al "Flannel Man" Borland (Richard Karn), and most recently John O'Hurley.

Sacrilege.

Richard Dawson was and shall ferever be the "Family Fued" dude.

Just like Sean Connery will always be Bond.

But yer points are well taken.

Be Well.

Backwood Savages.

always heard that the term "redneck" actually specifically referred to farmers from Georgia who had red necks from the red Georgia clay. I don't know, it's just what I always heard and I lived most of my life in various parts of the south.

#8 | Posted by danni

The term "Redneck" was coined during the Mine Wars of the early 1920's in southern West Virginia. The miners trying to unionize wore red bandanas around their necks to set themselves apart from the anti-union coal company gunmen . It was the largest armed insurrection of Americans since the Civil War. I find it beyond belief that the term has come to be used as a slur, as those folks (UMW)were very instrumental in helping to establish the 40 hr work week, as a result of theses early unionization efforts. That was, however, back when the Unions at least tried to police their own ranks, and weren't too intrested in simply getting something for nothing. Brave men, all, and not worthy of the disdain heaped upon them by today's ilk.

I always thought rednecks were just another name for evil southern republicans.

Not at all, JA.
www.wvgenweb.org">Red Neck War

Hows the house coming?

Finished with it...time to find something else to do...I've been brushhogging about 25 acres of mountainside this past week, and have a few more days of that left.

This excerpt is from Wiki page on "the Battle of Blair Mountain"...

The battle
At a rally on August 7, Mary Harris "Mother" Jones called on the miners not to march into Logan and Mingo counties and set up the union by force. Accused by some of losing her nerve, she rightly feared a bloodbath in a battle between lightly-armed union forces and the more heavily-armed deputies from Logan County. Yet, feeling they had been lied to again by West Virginia's Governor Morgan, armed men began gathering at Lens Creek Mountain, near Marmet in Kanawha County on August 20, where four days later up to 13,000 had gathered and began marching towards Logan County. Miners near St. Albans, West Virginia Kanawha County impatient to get to the fighting commandeered a Chesapeake and Ohio freight train, renamed by the miners as the 'Blue Steel Special', to meet up with the advanced column of marchers in Danville, West Virginia Boone County on their way to Bloody Mingo. Meanwhile, the reviled and anti-union Sheriff of Logan County, Don Chafin (1887-1954),[1] had begun to set up defenses on Blair Mountain. Chafin was supported financially by the Logan County Coal Operators Association creating the nation's largest private armed force of nearly 2000.

Who brings a broom to a tire iron fight?


The same guy who brings a car antenna to a shoot out.

#20

Good post, A1!

I never knew where the term originated from.

Thanks!

I'm always curious as to the criteria Drudge uses to Front Page a story..

Per the report, four people were injured in the "riot" and none of them were serious.. sounds like a pretty benign "riot"..

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that more than that were injured in various fights and assaults overnight here in Atlanta, and certainly in other big cities.

Doesn't seem like much of a story from Huntsville.. maybe that it happened in Alabama?

Just wondering.. RCADE could you enlighten us?

Mornin' Lisa! That's the origin, as far as I can tell,. It's the reason I'm a proud redneck!

#26

LOL Chris!!!

FF

Morning, A1!!!

My husband is proud to be a redneck too!!!

"I'm always curious as to the criteria Drudge uses to Front Page a story.. "

The criterion is: Whatver Rogers thinks is interesting enought and will generate lots of comments.

If you're having a party and people think it's a riot, you must be a redneck!

The lucky Dawg!

I want to see a cantaloupe used as a weapon. Show me your melons!

Distant kin to the Hatfields and McCoys?


#1 | Posted by CalifChris


Just for the record, the Hatfields and McCoy's weren't very far away from the Mine Wars, either...and it was about the same time, too.

"That's the origin, as far as I can tell..."

Not really:

In the Dictionary of American Regional English, the earliest citation of the term in this context is from 1830, as "a name bestowed upon the Presbyterians of Fayetteville [North Carolina]". A citation from 1893 provides a definition as "poorer inhabitants of the rural districts...men who work in the field, as a matter of course, generally have their skin burned red by the sun, and especially is this true of the back of their necks".[4]

More here:

en.wikipedia.org


I like my story better, Dave...it puts us rednecks in a more positive light!


~{:^)

I guess, either way, it's a purely Appalachian experience....

"Rednecks riot in Alabama."

Nothing like a good ethnic slur to get everyone yukking it up. If it had been African Americans fighting in New Orleans the headline could have read:

"Niggers battle it out in Louisiana."

HaHaHaHaHaHa!!!

"I like my story better, Dave...it puts us rednecks in a more positive light!'

Odd...I never figured you to be a pro-union guy.


This is the part that is the worst.

and even a cantaloupe and a plate of food

Them cantalopes are deadly out to 1,000 yards.

I want to see a cantaloupe used as a weapon. Show me your melons!

#35 | Posted by cbob


Anything
for you , cbob.

#40 | Posted by fukwitthom


Leave it to ol' fuckwit to come along and play the poor, pitiful, honkey race card.

I wonder if he's as willfully and stunningly ignorant in real life...

"Anything for you , cbob."

Uhh.....wrong melons.

No one should confuse Civil RIghts and Anti-Vietnam Demonstrations rendered violent by those who use their own power to abuse their serfs with the redneck morons totting weapons in the name of liberty today. What really matters is that Shrub ramrodded the Patriot Act he had in his pocket through Congress, while Anthrax was spread through the mail. Its a non-sequitur.

Odd...I never figured you to be a pro-union guy.




#41 | Posted by Dave

I'm all for a union, but they need to police themselves,(expel goldbrickers)and not try to break the bank. It's ok to milk a cow, so to speak, just don't drink all the milk before it hits the pail...

High Teck Red Neck

www.youtube.com

He's got thirteen channels of wrestling comin' in strong from a satellite send
A two hundred function remote control big screen TV with stereo
Football baseball nascar too with picture in a picture it's all in view
And if it comes on just a little too late with his VCR's he'll get it on tape
He's a high-tech redneck Mayberry meets Startrek
He's a bumpkin' but he's plugged in he's a high-tech redneck
[ fiddle ]
He's got twenty sub-woofers in the bed of his truck
A thousand watts of power and he keeps it cranked up
He ain't into hip hop he ain't into rap
He likes to rattle them speakers with Ronnie Milsap
CD cassette digital tape CB radar and scannin' short wave
And if he needs to talk to his honey at home
He just dials up her number on his cellular phone
He's a high-tech redneck...
He's a high-tech redneck...


www.sing365.com

Distant kin to the Hatfields and McCoys?

#1 | Posted by CalifChris


Just for the record, the Hatfields and McCoy's weren't very far away from the Mine Wars, either...and it was about the same time, too.

#36 | Posted by American1st at 2009-08-25 08:59 AM


Thanks for the historical reference. I have to admit I didn't know much at all about the Mine Wars, just heard of the famous feud with the Hatfields and McCoys.

I just now looked up some info on the Mine Wars after you told me about it so I could learn more about it. There is so much history up in your neck of the woods, A1!

One of my ancestors who came here from Ireland (in the 1880's I think it was) worked as a miner and lost his leg in a mining accident in Dover, NJ (in a place called Mine Hill). There was a lot of mining done in that area of the country too.

nutcase, when is Obama going to call on congress to send him a bill repealing the Patriot Act then?

Here's a good wiki article about the Battle of Blair Mountain

Them cantalopes are deadly out to 1,000 yards.

#42 | Posted by Sniper


A sniper would know that for certain. This comment has an autoritative feel to it.

What really matters is that Shrub ramrodded the Patriot Act he had in his pocket through Congress, while Anthrax was spread through the mail. Its a non-sequitur.

#46 | Posted by nutcase

So tell me. Why hasn't the savior voided that law by now? I guess you realize the dems have had the congress for several years now and the WH for 8 months. What are they waiting for?????

Damn! Wanted to see a video of this comedy show...you know you're in deep when out of 150 people nobody caught this on their phone, or vid cam, or....

Do they have electricity there?

Growing up in an Irish family we were always taught that it was a reference to Irish slavery. The rednecks and the niggers as it were.

these are the people that are first in line when america needs someone to stand up and fight and protect pompous liberal assholes.

I always heard that the term "redneck" actually specifically referred to farmers from Georgia who had red necks from the red Georgia clay. I don't know, it's just what I always heard and I lived most of my life in various parts of the south.

#8 | Posted by danni

Clay? And you believed that? It does come from farmers with red necks, but they got them from being outside all the time and getting sunburned necks.

these are the people that are first in line when america needs someone to stand up and fight and protect pompous liberal assholes.

#56 | Posted by semtex111 at 2009-08-25 10:16 AM | Reply | Flag:

LOL, yeah, 'cept they're so fucking stupid they shoot EACH OTHER! Keep 'em, they're only good for comical relief.

Why the hell didn't the dumb fuckers use sunscreen then!

"I thought this thread would be about redneckshill's funny posts."

He's never been funny.

LOL, yeah, 'cept they're so fucking stupid they shoot EACH OTHER! Keep 'em, they're only good for comical relief.

you talking about rednecks or blacks?

#36 | POSTED BY AMERICAN1ST
"Just for the record, the Hatfields and McCoy's weren't very far away from the Mine Wars, either...and it was about the same time, too."

Sid Hatfield was the Matewan, West Virginia police chief, whose murder sparked the Battle of Blair Mountain, was a descendant of THOSE Hatfields. He was born after the feud ended, but I believe he was grandson to one of the key players in the feud.

I'm not originally from Kentucky, but I spent most of my adult life there, and have known quite a few rednecks. Now I live in the L.A. area, and there are rednecks a-plenty here as well.

What's the difference between a Kentucky redneck and a California redneck?

The Kentucky redneck KNOWS he's a redneck.

you talking about rednecks or blacks?

#61 | Posted by semtex111 at 2009-08-25 12:17 PM | Reply | Flag:Questionable reading capabilities

I am a native Mississippian descended from Scots-Irish Presbyterians on both sides, so I guess I have my redneck pedigree.

I would never let on to my wife, but I secretly think those pickups with the huge wheels are cooler than shit.

I secretly think those pickups with the huge wheels are cooler than shit.

#64 | Posted by silver_ironist

I'm partial to creative 4x4's such as this '57 Ranchero

Same holds true for South Boston MA, Fresno CA etc. mighty fine folks everywhere who aren't afraid to stand up to the PC/Libs nonsense

#9 | Posted by Gimme_a_Scotch at 2009-08-24 09:16 PM | Reply | Flag:

South Boston rednecks?

The term "Redneck" was coined during the Mine Wars of the early 1920's in southern West Virginia. The miners trying to unionize wore red bandanas around their necks to set themselves apart from the anti-union coal company gunmen . It was the largest armed insurrection of Americans since the Civil War. I find it beyond belief that the term has come to be used as a slur, as those folks (UMW)were very instrumental in helping to establish the 40 hr work week, as a result of theses early unionization efforts. That was, however, back when the Unions at least tried to police their own ranks, and weren't too intrested in simply getting something for nothing. Brave men, all, and not worthy of the disdain heaped upon them by today's ilk.

#20 | Posted by American1st at 2009-08-25 08:31 AM



Interestingly enough, the anniversary of the Battle of Blair Mountain is today August 25th.

Thanks for pointing out this piece of history American1st.

Redneck- The term has been used for different groups in different time periods. The most common American usage, that of the uncouth rural white Southerner, is generally believed to derive from individuals having a red neck caused by working outdoors in the sunlight over the course of their lifetime.[3]

In the Dictionary of American Regional English, the earliest citation of the term in this context is from 1830, as "a name bestowed upon the Presbyterians of Fayetteville [North Carolina]". A citation from 1893 provides a definition as "poorer inhabitants of the rural districts...men who work in the field, as a matter of course, generally have their skin burned red by the sun, and especially is this true of the back of their necks".[4]

I came through that town yesterday and all I saw was a bunch of ignorant blacks, not rednecks. Us rednecks are a proud bunch, don't group us in with ignorant blacks.

Who brings a broom to a tire iron fight?

Inbreeding has consequences...

Dang dudemeysters thems jest be needin thems sum of this heer Jesus Juices and Oxys so thems don't be aneedin to be feudin and fiting over to Alabammer. My naybur be named ShytzSue and she be uglee as a Sammsquatch and her booty be big as a semmi truck. Her be all kinds of meen and she be puttin fences ups on her properdy lines and she be's in the millitier too. Dang ya'll jest best be thanksfull that ShitzSue don't lives by ya'll. Well ShitzSue don't takes no kinds of Oxys and Jesus Juices and her Hussbind be a queer sorta feller that do whats ShitzSue done be asayin. Well ShitzSue could go reicht down their to Allabammee and relly gets that their feudating going cuz her mean as a Pits Bull that doned got chokated by Mikey Vick. So ya'll best be thanksing the sweat Lord that ShitzSue ain't livin rounds about ya'll cuz she meaner than any of thems hellbellys down to Allabammer.

Thanks for pointing out this piece of history American1st.


#68 | Posted by Roy_Batty


You're quite welcome, Roy


My great Grandfather and Grandfather raised vegetables and hunted game to trade with the miners for the company scrip. They'd use the scrip to buy coffee, and whatever hardware/dry goods they couldn't make for themselves. My dad told me the miners would pay 50 cents for every full grown groundhog they could take up that way...needless to say, there weren't many groundhogs, or coon, or deer, around here back then.

Q. What do rednecks do on Halloween?


A. Pump kin.

Q. Why do rednecks screw cows on cliffs?


A. They push back harder.

#75 | Posted by boojiboy at 2009-08-25 03:21 PM | Reply | Flag: A joke or a lesson learned in life one wonders

=D

you be the judge

I'm glad there's still a group of people that we can openly mock.

Q. What do rednecks do on Halloween?

A. Pump kin.

#74 | Posted by boojiboy


Q. Why do rednecks screw cows on cliffs?

A. They push back harder.

#75 | Posted by boojiboy


Keep 'em comin' boy I'm getting all misty-eyed for my cuz Jeannie Mae and Pa's ole Guernsey Betsy

"Signed a proud Massachusetts bred and raised Redneck"


I thought we called 'em "Swamp Yankees" up here...err up heah...(I'm not native, still can't say things the right way)...

I thought we called 'em "Swamp Yankees" up here...err up heah

Actually they call me "Trailuh Trash" even though I've nevah lived in a trailuh - YET.

www.fortogden.com
"You may be a Redneck if ...
You and your dog use the same tree."

Ouch! That one hit too close to home.
I guess my only justification is that I went first.

So its a redneck riot when there but why not a nigger riot in LA?

What makes you think these rioters were WHITE?

I guess my only justification is that I went first.

Then, technically, the tree belongs to your dog...

#83 | Posted by phuckn_retard at 2009-08-26 10:32 AM | Reply | Flag: Too stupid for words

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