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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

My neighbors to the north are Georgia, Northern FL Panhandle transplants. 
Been here (CA) a lot of years and they still refer to themselves as 
Crackers.  I was surprised because back in the dark ages when I was knee 
high, my nanny used the word as you describe it.  She was black and from 
Georgia.  She is also the first person I ever heard use the word "nigger." 
She said both with the same tone of voice.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "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.