Scottish Hillbillies and Rednecks?

[HollyElise]

I can't believe i repeated the same article... sorry about that. I thought i was putting in a different one!

[Celyn]

Originally Posted by HollyElise

I can't believe i repeated the same article... sorry about that. I thought i was putting in a different one!

Oh good - sigh of relief. I thought there was something a bit déja vu going on OR that I was losing my mind. Glad to know it's only you who is losing memory, Holly.

[Lil4]

Originally Posted by HollyElise

I can't believe i repeated the same article... sorry about that. I thought i was putting in a different one!

I thought the term "redneck" had something to do with Unions in the south, the kerchiefs they wore were red? I may really, really be wrong, who knows?

[IBeirTheBell]

America is full of rednecks, north and south Big trucks and beer

[Scottish_Republican]

Surely Occam's razor applies here. Lots of sun + pale skin = red neck.

[seaweasel]

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".

Makes it sound so quaint doesn't it? There should really be some sort of health warning on it for tourists.

[Laeg]

The Ulster-Scots fought on both sides in the Civil War. But North Carolina had a strong Ulster-Scots base...

On the Confederate side,North Carolina,home of the Ulster-Scots,led all the Southern States in enlisted men,and in killed and wounded. In the North,the pre-eminence goes to Pennsylvania, peopled in great measure by folk with the Ulster blood. The bloodest single conflict of the war was between two regiments at Gettysburg,the 26th North Carolina Regiment and the 151st Pennsylvania Regiment. Both regiments were practically wiped out. Well might Colonel Johnston say in 1889: ''The greatest losses in the war occurred when the iron soldiers of North Carolina and Pennsylvania,descendants of the same race and stock,met on the field of battle and locked arms in the embrace of death.