Redneck
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2015 2:37 pm
So the commoner definition is quite well know for the word Redneck. Although, I heard a historical Irishman's story, living near Boston you can't walk a mile without finding a Irish themed watering-hole, about the source of this word.
The story goes, that the English settlers were quite worried about the Native Americans as they expanded west from Atlantic Coast. So to provide a buffer between themselves and the American Indians and French they figured they could get some sods to come over and settle in the mountains to be a buffer if they just paid for passage. Apparently it worked and that population became the neck that stuck out as a buffer between the English Colonies and the Native American and French populations that they saw as a constant threat.
This story is here say, right now but it sounds like a plausible history.
The story goes, that the English settlers were quite worried about the Native Americans as they expanded west from Atlantic Coast. So to provide a buffer between themselves and the American Indians and French they figured they could get some sods to come over and settle in the mountains to be a buffer if they just paid for passage. Apparently it worked and that population became the neck that stuck out as a buffer between the English Colonies and the Native American and French populations that they saw as a constant threat.
This story is here say, right now but it sounds like a plausible history.