The battling factions are "like the Hatfields and the McCoys, " says Melissa Scott, a Kiger owner and exhibitor from Decatur, Tenn.
The Hatfields and the McCoys would have been similarly verbally inventive had Twitter existed at the time of their epic, decades-spanning vendetta.
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There's North Carolina's Roy Williams, whose book "Hard Work" reveals that he traces his lineage to the McCoys of the famed feuding Hatfields and McCoys.
"We have an example of Hatfields and McCoys going on in this state like we have never seen, " said Brian Nemoir, a Milwaukee-based Republican strategist.
Nine of the eleven men who started against Italy in the final played for either Real Madrid or Barcelona, La Liga's feuding version of the Hatfields and McCoys.
And their hatred is vehement, like Itchy's for Scratchy, like the Hatfields' for the McCoys, and Taylor Swift's for every man who she has ever talked to since her 15th birthday.
In May 1920, after evicting striking miners in Red Jacket, some of the Baldwin-Felts men tried to board a train in nearby Matewan but were confronted by the mayor and the chief of police, Sid Hatfield, a former miner, who had family ties to the Hatfields in the feud.
But functional product differentiation is exactly what the rivalry between the Airbus A380 and the Boeing 787 Dreamliner is all about: Two companies with fundamentally different products, based on diametrically opposite visions of the future, engaged in a Hatfields versus McCoys battle with billions of dollars at stake.
The question over the next four years is not whether the U.S. will survive the fiscal cliff or go the way of Greece, it is whether Democrats and Republicans will play their role of Hatfields and McCoys for television cameras, or go together up the hill and through the valley to get this country moving.
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