Black Rednecks and White Liberals (by Thomas Sowell)

Anything to support this rather insulting contention with a comparison of the elements of this 'mentality' in the Scottish Highlands at the time? I'm not a highlander myself but while I can see how Scottish and Irish Pioneers may have influenced the culture of the south, I'm certainly not sure I see where the need for a sweet set of chrome rims comes from in the Scottish highlands?TTFN,WK

Wow, you like totally failed to actually mention anything even remotely resembling something in support of your contention. Imagine my surprise.In case you forgot simply re-iterating your assertion isn't generally considered a substantive form of debate. Its all very well saying your just relaying what Sowell says but you haven't even told us what these ill-behaviours that have been passed on from the Highland scots actually were or what the evidence is. Maybe if you actually said what they were I might agree with you. But so far all you do is bang on about things which have absolutely no clear connection to any sort of social behaviour one might expect to trace from the Scottish highlands. I mean cross burning supposedly originated in the Scottish highlands, but you don't see a whole lot of that going on in black neighbourhoods (well not by the black population anyway).TTFN,WK

Actually that only seems to be one of the competing etymologies of the word. One of the alternatives is that it derives from the use of the term for the Scottish presbyterian covenanters.TTFN,WK