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To: Kaslin

How did Florida Crackers get that nickname?

No Googling!

3 posted on 01/31/2012 12:56:33 PM PST by RexBeach

To: RexBeach

White people are salty?

4 posted on 01/31/2012 12:59:14 PM PST by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)

To: RexBeach

I live in the Florida panhandle. I have always heard it was from wagon drivers using their whips.

It was a term more common in Northeast Florida and South Georgia than NW Florida.

6 posted on 01/31/2012 1:01:13 PM PST by yarddog

To: RexBeach

“How did Florida Crackers get that nickname?”

Cowboy whips. Lots of Cowboys in Florida.

Saw it on How the States got their shapes.

8 posted on 01/31/2012 1:04:19 PM PST by brownsfan (Aldous Huxley and Mike Judge were right.)

To: RexBeach

How did Florida Crackers get that nickname?

Cuz they like to eat at Cracker Barrel?

13 posted on 01/31/2012 1:12:20 PM PST by crosshairs (Liberalism is to truth, what east is to west.)

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