Not much to add as far as all of the wonderful expositions above. I may have a prejudice against sheepherders of the old West. I would be a bigot if I actively recruited others to feel the same way and to make overt moves to further my views, even to the point of violence.

In another way, bigot to me means hypocritical. I would use it to describe someone who seems tolerant, but in reality is very intolerant.

I was curious to see what my grandfather's five volume dictionary set, circa 1896, had to say. Imagine my surprise when I found it didn't have it listed at all!

Warning thread drift: LH, you said, in reference to M. Gibson and Spaw "...you both rate as icons on this forum." Think again, surrah! Spaw's got mileage, class, eloquence, heart, experience, and cleans up the kitty litter quite well. It takes a lot more that what MG has done here to even come close to being any kind of "icon" like Spaw and a handful of others I could name on this forum, IMO!

kat