Re: [Leica] Rules of the Rednecks...

["Don" <don.ro@verizon.net>]

Always wondered why I favored my red bandana, and now you have solved
the mystery!

Don R.
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From: "Sonny Carter" <sonc@sonc.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Rules of the Rednecks...


> Thanks for the references, I've been playing with this stuff through
Google
> all afternoon, when I should have been doing other things.
>
> The Celtic reference I cited earlier has surfaced enough today for me
to
> think there is something to the memory, and I did not remember it
wrong.
> There are several references to Highlanders in both the Revolutionary
war,
> and the War between the States.
>
> Unfortunately the web is an unreliable resource for anything but
empirical
> knowledge and opinion.  If I nail down a citation that I feel is
strong
> enough to make the case, I'll share it with you.
>
> In the meantime, the cited Celtic article makes most sense to me,
because of
> my experience.
>
> I doubt a man who has to spend day after day bent over a mule drawn
plow
> would allow himself to become sun-burned to the extent that a whole
class of
> people gets called red-neck.
>
> Fun stuff indeed, and I plan to withdraw this thread until I get a
firm
> citation that supports my Civil War notion.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sonny
>
>
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