In American media and mainstream culture, people called those whose necks had been sunburned red from long-term physical labor "rednecks." Generally speaking, it was a Northern slur against Southerners. And because "rednecks" were generally not highly educated, they were also targets of discrimination by the elite class.
These "winners" automatically ignored the South's contributions during World War II. If the Southern Democratic Party congressmen had defected to the Fascist regime back then, the United States would have found it difficult to avoid another American Civil War. Whether Americans busy fighting a civil war would still have had the energy to "save" Europe was unknown.
Just as JFK had said, the mode of warfare had changed, from invasion to infiltration. Aquinas, the natural law jurist, had been a very fat man. He resembled Hufflepuff's ghost, the Fat Friar. One day while he was studying, a classmate suddenly pointed out the window and said, "Look, a cow is flying."
Aquinas believed him and actually ran to the window to look, asking as he searched, "Where is it? Where is it?"
His classmates burst into laughter. Because of Aquinas's build, his nickname was "Dumb Ox." Aquinas quickly realized that his classmates had tricked him, but instead of flying into a rage from embarrassment, he looked at them calmly and said, "Between a cow flying and my classmates actually deceiving me, I find the latter more laughable and absurd. A flying cow is neither laughable nor absurd, but as my classmates, you deceived me just to mock me. That is far too absurd, and far too laughable. I would rather believe that the cow can fly than believe that my classmates, my friends, would deceive me."
As Nietzsche had said, what truly saddened me was not that you lied to me, but that I