Over the years, I've told a lot of stories about eastern Kentucky and the people I grew up with. Sometimes, I've changed the names to protect the guilty but not always......I’ve told a lot of stories about my buddy, Pig. Pig got his nickname from his Uncle Bob when he ‘uz just a baby....’n all these years later, he’s still ‘Pig’ to his friends.....
One of our friends back home is E.V. McGuire. E.V goes down the hill from his house to have coffee with the local liars most mornin’s where they discuss the state of the world and other important topics.....One of them old boys asked him if he knew what a Yeller Dog Democrat was?.....
E.V. sed, “he guessed that if Hitler wuz runnin’ on the Democrat ticket, he’d win.” Turned out that wuz pretty close..... it’s a Democrat who’d vote for a yeller dog if he wuz on the ticket.....Now, I ain’t callin’ Pig a Yeller Dog Democrat, it’s just that he’s what you might call bred in the bone ......So wuz I....when I wuz a boy, nobody I knew wud admit to bein' a Republican.....Greenup County, Kentucky is and has been s’long as ‘most folks c’n recall, a Democrat county....Republicans in Greenup County generally stay in the closet or move....
I wuz back there a couple years ago ‘n the designated Republican of Greenup County wuz Louie Bentley. Lou is an old running mate of brother John and he ran for office on the Republican ticket. Louie’s born ‘n raised in Greenup County ‘n he’s got a lot of friends but nobody voted for him.....
I figure Pig has got himself a dilemma this year... I wondered how he wuz gonna choose t’ween Hillary ‘n Obama ‘n now I’m wonderin’ if he’s a Yeller Dog Democrat or (gasp...shudder-shudder) vote for McCain..... whichever way he goes, he’s still my friend....
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