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>From Gene


> In respect to plaintiff's evidence that Minnie once referred to relatives 
> of the plaintiff as hillbillies: We suggest that to refer to a person as a 
> "hillbilly," or any other name, for that matter, might or might not be an 
> insult

A certain faction of Scotsmen couldn't seem to get along with anyone, so wild 
and heathen were they.  During the campagin of 1690 when King William was 
routing James II at the battle of Boyne, said Scotsmen were occupying the 
mountians of Ulster.  Supporters of King William often refered to themselves 
as Billy 
Boys and those Hielandmen who came down fromt the Ulster mountians in support 
of King William were called the Hill Billies.  

Alas, wearing out their welcome these Ulster Scotts (incorectly refered to as 
Scotch-Irish) left Ireland and  settled in the wild mountians of Appalachia 
and over the next couple of centuries many of them migrated thence to the 
Ozarks.

"Wha's like us?  Damn few, and they're all a-deed!"


James