In my last post I called myself a redneck. Well I decided to look this term up on wikipedia just to see what I was getting myself into. Very Interesting.

Possible Covenanter etymology
The National Covenant and The Solemn League and Covenant (also known as Covenanters) signed documents stating that Scotland desired a Presbyterian Church government, and rejected the Church of England as their official church (no Anglican congregation was ever accepted as the official church in Scotland). In doing so, the Covenanters rejected episcopacy—rule by bishops—the preferred form of church government in England. Many of the Covenanters signed these documents using their own blood, and many in the movement began wearing red pieces of cloth around their neck to signify their position to the public. They were referred to as rednecks.[1]
Large numbers of Scottish Presbyterians migrated from their lowland Scottish home to Ulster (the northern province of Ireland) during the plantation era. In the mid to late 18th century, they emigrated again to North America in considerable numbers, comprising the largest group of immigrants to the American colonies from the British Isles before the American Revolution.[2] This etymological theory holds that since many Scots-Irish Americans and Scottish Americans who settled in Appalachia and the South were Presbyterian, the term redneck was used for them and their descendants.

Possible American etymologies
Another possible contributing source of the term redneck comes from The West Virginia Coal Miners March or the Battle of Blair Mountain when coal miners wore red bandanas around their necks to identify themselves as seeking the opportunity to unionize.

Another contributing theory derives the term from such individuals having a red neck caused by working outdoors in the sunlight over the course of their lifetime. The effect of decades of direct sunlight on the exposed skin of the back of the neck not only reddens fair skin, but renders it leathery and tough, and typically very wrinkled and spotted by late middle age. Similarly, some historians claim that the term redneck originated in 17th century Virginia, because fair-skinned unfree labourers were sunburnt while tending plantation crops.

Much more here

This will be a quick post before I dash off to cover my first ever NASCAR event. I know what am I doing covering NASCAR, well that is a story for another day but I have embraced my inner red neck. Someone told me that we all have redneckness in us and it is up to us to embrace it or not. For now I am choosing to embrace the redneckness inside of me… YE HA!

Okay glad I got that out of my system.

This past week was my first week hosting the morning show on WESO 970 am in Southbridge. What a wild ride that was. It is not as easy as it looks, or sounds, and I have much to learn. If you have been listening drop me a note and let me know what you thought, what I can change, what you would like me to discuss, etc. More local news, less local news, etc. So I continue on Monday.

I promised last week that I would post about the Kirkin of the Tartans ceremony last Sunday and I have not done so. I promise that I will before the weekend is out. Monday is Tartan Day here in the US so I will post about that as well. That will be much of the show on Monday.

Holy week begins for my Western friends and family so I wish them a blessed and holy holy week. For us Easterners we have another week. I think we do it this way so we can watch what the West does and then copy it, I don ‘t know. Anyway lost going on.

Okay off I go! YE HA! (I could not resist)