Mystery Train,
I wasn't trying to say the Southern people are any more racist than any other place. When I had a little time I would take a company car and drive off into the back areas and yes I did run into a couple of the Barney Fife type deputy sheriffs. What you doing driving a telephone company car and you are from California. Hauling dope back here to corrupt our kids. The darn car came from their own company about 40 miles away. That said most of the people that I stopped and talked to had a more laid back way of life and just preferred for the Govt. to stay out of their lives. They didn't like change especially when we were putting in computers to take the place of 10/20 men that had worked on the old mechanical machines and at times it got a little testy there. I believe that every person has some racism in them just as we all have some good and bad, and it is just how the individual was brought up or what that person chooses as to which is predominant for the most part. CEOs I never paid much attention to as I just counted them as highly paid politicians. More concerned with impressing the next higher level than giving credit to the people under them that had actually worked so they could enjoy those titles.
As for the term Red Neck, that can be attributed to the Unions from way back in the coal mine wars of West Virginia and a couple of other states when we first started becoming an industrial nation. If you ever get the chance to watch the show Hillbilly, narrated by Marty Stewart, do so. It is interesting.
Ron
