The origin of the redneck culture from Britain | Thomas Sowell

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[miketracy]

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[anglomik]

Excellent short documentary; stuff today's universities either completely ignore or deny altogether.

[Lucien-iz]

😂😂 As someone from rural Scotland, redneck culture has not died out in Scotland and trust me our dialect is older and harder to understand than Southern Americans.

[artawhirler]

Nobody knows this, but everybody should.

[LAFLSU]

I'm a true hillbilly. I'm a West Virginian. My family has lived in this area since the late 1700's. I understand bigotry towards my family and friends. I have to say my family has always and continue to be hard working and honest fair people. We don't want to become the "new liberal americans." Thank you very much

[unnecessaryapostrophe]

My mother's family was among those Appalachians who migrated to the industrial Midwest in the 50s. Within two generations, this changed a family with a history of being largely uncivilized -- unproductive, violent, and drunk hillbillies -- into one of educators and engineers. I am so grateful for the hard work and sacrifices that my grandfather made to facilitate this change. Even as a small child, it was disturbing to observe the differences between the family of my grandfather and the families of his siblings when they would visit Ohio from West Virginia.

[DarthQueefious]

I live in England, and it kinda blew my mind when I realised that quite a bit of Ebonics comes from the West Country (erroneously labelled a "farmer's accent" due to TV shows)
Given that the famous Pirate accent is a West Country accent (many of the real life Pirates came from there e.g. Blackbeard), it is, in a sense, "Talk like a Pirate day" every day for many black Americans

[jontalbot]

I am from East Anglia, the people who populated New England. But l also lived in the northern part of the country from where the southern whites are drawn.

[AOT_HxH]

This provided me the long sought after “why” the Civil War happened as a passionate history buff on the subject. I now see it in a completely different light, an inevitable clash of cultures.

[lostindixie]

As a northeasterner who moved to The South in middle-age, I totally agree. The most destructive thing is the attitude that life is a zero-sum game. If anyone else succeeds, it brings me down.

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"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
Ayn Rand

[House]

I knew these white Appalachian southerners well in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago in my youth. Most of them I found to be tough, hardworking and very loyal if they liked you. The majority made good lives for themselves in Chicago and the midwest.

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My grandparents are from rural Michigan. They didn’t have indoor plumbing and central heating. They relied on outhouses and fireplaces. When my dad and aunt were young, they all moved to California. Even though grandma and grandpa have been here for a long time now, they still have retained their midwest accents. They both come from a line of hardworking people and that has been passed down to my dad, his siblings, and us kids.

[Parker_Douglas]

Am Scottish & the USA is where I have most of my DNA matches with 6, 599, guessing it’s mainly due to the Highland & Lowland clearances that took place in Scotland . My town Airdrie was cleared out but it’s a thriving place now with our population growing steadily year upon year.

[luuhoang]

This video invites me to order your book "Black Rednecks and white Liberals" right away...so interesting. Thank you, sir.

[trplankowner]

Thank you Dr. Sowell for this mini-documentary. The way that the English changed Scotland was to make them partners in prosperity through the Acts of Union 1707. The Ulster Scots (and other so called "rednecks") in the Southern US did not achieve this status until the mid-twentieth century mostly due to the institution of slavery. There was virtually no middle class in the antebellum South. While the rich plantation owners held their slaves in low esteem, at least the slave had value to them. The "poor white trash" did not. In fact part of the motivation for the widespread use of slavery was in order to keep the "white trash" from increasing in numbers and opposing the rich white landowners politically. Until the 1920s, elections in the South were held in public places and these poor whites had their votes cast and tallied on chalkboards in front of their landlords and employers. Who made note of anyone not voting as they were "supposed to". The growth of a middle class in the South paralleled the decline in racism there. Today most middle class Southerners in the suburban and rural South hold no prejudice towards their neighbors over skin color or other factors often used to divide the common people, for in fact they all have much more in common with their neighbors and work mates than they do with those people of the elites that attempt to spread bigotry among them for political gain. Still more infuriating to these "upper class" is that said middle class are fully aware of those facts.