That's a new one on me whats a cracker?Correct, but don’t be calling no white boy from the South “cracker”
That's a new one on me whats a cracker?Correct, but don’t be calling no white boy from the South “cracker”
<snort!>Correct, but don’t be calling no white boy from the South “cracker”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_(pejorative)That's a new one on me whats a cracker?
But I like Cracker Barrel! I find their giant line of rockers outside very thoughtful. And they also have real maple syrup instead of that Aunt Jemima shit so I can actually order pancakes or French toast.or eat here
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The key really was the types of crimes, usually extreme violence and/or sedition of some kind, lotta Irish, Scots, northern English, Welsh who didn’t wanna mine coal* sort of explains the character of the USA a lot reallyA 1783 pejorative use of "crackers" specifies men who "are descended from convicts that were transported from Great Britain to Virginia at different times, and inherit so much profligacy from their ancestors, that they are the most abandoned set of men on earth".
OK, so we shipped out our oiks, who's descendants evolved into crackers?
Really Cracka gets used towards any white, racist, redneck person. Kind of an update on Honkey or Whitey. It’s interesting I found an entry in Urban Dictionary that refers to the “crack of the slavemaster’s whip” as where Cracka comes from. Don’t know if that’s true or just makes sense,A 1783 pejorative use of "crackers" specifies men who "are descended from convicts that were transported from Great Britain to Virginia at different times, and inherit so much profligacy from their ancestors, that they are the most abandoned set of men on earth".
OK, so we shipped out our oiks, who's descendants evolved into crackers?
There’s an intersting Malcolm Gladwell chapter where he breaks out the Scottish heritage of the Hillbilly Clans in Appalachia as one of the reasons for all the passionate grudges and fighting.The key really was the types of crimes, usually extreme violence and/or sedition of some kind, lotta Irish, Scots, northern English, Welsh who didn’t wanna mine coal* sort of explains the character of the USA a lot really
*=somebody has sense of humor though, the hills here many welsh moved to turned out packed with coal so lotta their descendants became miners anyways
Had to look up oik, by the way, but I think I get it.A 1783 pejorative use of "crackers" specifies men who "are descended from convicts that were transported from Great Britain to Virginia at different times, and inherit so much profligacy from their ancestors, that they are the most abandoned set of men on earth".
OK, so we shipped out our oiks, who's descendants evolved into crackers?
Oh yeah, plenty of Scots in dem hills, for the longest time my family tree had one part firmly planted in the USA as far as we knew, but then when my uncle did some on the ground research, turns out the Armstrong branch were just bunch of inbred Scots that came over sometime in the 1700s and didn’t emerge from those hills really til WW1There’s an intersting Malcolm Gladwell chapter where he breaks out the Scottish heritage of the Hillbilly Clans in Appalachia as one of the reasons for all the passionate grudges and fighting.
And don’t jump on me for pointing it out. I may talk about my Swedish background a lot but on my dad’s side I’m Scottish. In fact, I have a Scottish surname. No disrespect is intended.
That’s a long time in those hills.Oh yeah, plenty of Scots in dem hills, for the longest time my family tree had one part firmly planted in the USA as far as we knew, but then when my uncle did some on the ground research, turns out the Armstrong branch were just bunch of inbred Scots that came over sometime in the 1700s and didn’t emerge from those hills really til WW1