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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

I grew up in Northern Georgia, and here, a cracker is a racist white 
person.  And I know that there was a time when people took pride in 
being a Cracker(there was even a baseball team called the Georgia 
Crackers,I believe), such as Jeff Foxworthy has made it cool to be a 
redneck, but in the 100 times or so I have heard the term cracker used, 
it was very negative and derogatory, but you are right about one thing, 
I think the term originally applied to south Georgians and northern 
Floridians. I actually thought conchs were south Floridians.

Bev

Robert Walton wrote:
> > 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.
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