• Redneck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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• The United Mine Workers of America (UMW) and rival miners' unions appropriated both the term redneck and its literal manifestation, the red bandana, in order to build multiracial unions of white, black, and immigrant miners in the strike-ridden coalfields of northern and central Appalachia between 1912 and 1936. The origin of redneck to mean "a union man" or "a striker" remain uncertain, but according to linguist David W. Maurer, the former definition of the word probably dates at least to the second decade of the twentieth century, if not earlier. The use of redneck to designate "a union member" was especially popular during the 1920s and 1930s in the coal-producing regions of southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and western Pennsylvania, where the word came to be specifically applied to a miner who belonged to a labor union
• As L.S.S.I. Takes Over Libraries, Patrons Can’t Keep Quiet - NYTimes.com
• www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/business/27libraries.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=general
• “There’s this American flag, apple pie thing about libraries,” said Frank A. Pezzanite, the outsourcing company’s chief executive. He has pledged to save $1 million a year in Santa Clarita, mainly by cutting overhead and replacing unionized employees. “Somehow they have been put in the category of a sacred organization.”
• Editorial - Profiles in Timidity - NYTimes.com
• www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/opinion/28tue1.html?th&emc=th
• We are starting to wonder whether Congressional Democrats lack the courage of their convictions, or simply lack convictions.
• Last week, Senate Democrats did not even bother to schedule a debate, let alone a vote, on the expiring Bush tax cuts. This week, House Democrats appear poised to follow suit. The idea is to spare incumbents from having to vote before Nov. 2 on whether to let the rich go on paying less taxes than the nation needs them to pay.
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