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I'm originally from California (yes, a native Californian...there are still a
few of us around!), have only lived in NC for a little over a year and a half
now, and I've never heard the term in my life.

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Quoting zman <zman AT gibbon.kungfumonkey.com>:

> > +On Sunday 10 August 2003 09:43 am, Beth wrote:
> > +> I am and always have been utterly repulsed by "Cackalacky". I'm from
> NC
> > +> originally and that word never ceases to make me cringe. It's too Hee
> Haw.
> 
> I heard it long before I ever moved here. Usually in the context of where 
> Fayette-nam and Ft. Drag were. I don't believe it comes from any Cherokee 
> word. I think it's just bad slang used to make the Carolinas sound hick. 
> Though it does seem to bedded in Rap vernacular these days I tend not to 
> use it. I guess I'm just not as hip as I used to be.
> 
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