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Cracker (term) Cracker, sometimes cracka or white cracker, is a racial slur directed towards white people, [1][2][3] used especially with regard to poor rural whites in the Southern United States. [4] Although commonly a pejorative, it is also used in a neutral context, particularly in reference to a native of Florida or Georgia (see Florida ...
Jul 1, 2013 · There were baseball teams called the Crackers. According to Ste. Claire, we've even had a cracker president. ... "There are people who will claim that there's a diff between Georgia cracker and a ...
Apr 24, 2024 · Cracker, a slur aimed at white people, carries a complex history. Here's what we know about the decades-old derogatory term. The term carries a complex history.
May 24, 2013 · Many Georgians were proud to call themselves "Georgia Crackers" who took the name from their ancestors who drove their cattle (cracking whips) south to Florida grasslands. That is the popular etymology among White rural Georgians, according to my late father who was born in the small town of Adrian, Georgia.
Jul 2, 2013 · The crackers had their distinctive time-intensive cuisine — swamp cabbage, hoppin' john, corn pone — and architectural styles meant to make cooking in the brutal Southern summers more bearable. There were baseball teams called the Crackers. According to Ste. Claire, we've even had a cracker president. "Jimmy Carter is a cracker," Ste ...
It was in the late 1800s when writers from the North started referring to the hayseed faction of Southern homesteaders as crackers. " [Those writers] decided that they were called that because of ...
Jul 1, 2013 · The term injected race into Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial. "Cracker" has a murky history but generally describes poor whites. The slur is widely considered an insult among white ...
