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RE: THE ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS WAKING NIGHTMARE OF LEROY CROW

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REDNECK

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.

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