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["Robert Walton" <waltonrp AT gmail.com>]

> I ain't no freakin' cracker

I know that this was posted for Gene and I'm back to posting on these
politicolo threads, but words are an interesting thing. They mean
different things in different areas of the country. Even the
difference between Georgia and Florida are there. For instance, I grew
up in Florida proud to be a Cracker, because that meant I wasn't a
Conch. Crackers lived inland and Conchs on the coast. Later Cracker
became black slang for a white person.

Not that Obama or any politician should be off the hook, but I think
that all of this fuss over one thing that one person said is in most
cases overkill.

Rob - Va.