Didn’t the term cracker originate in Florida?
I thought the early settlers called themselves crackers.
The Floridians extracted resin from pine trees that was converted into something, maybe turpentine. The conversion process was called cracking.
The people doing the job were thus crackers
Different versions. The version I heard was the term originated from slave owners cracking the whip.
It may surprise you but we don’t call ourselves cracker so it’s not something I think much about although I’ve read over the years it refers to ox cart or mule team masters cracking the whip to move the teams around from Florida or Georgia
It’s usually a disrespectful term especially when used by blacks or liberals to address or describe whites
Imagine I ask you
Hey Mac where do you think the word “nigger” comes from mac
Now you might say but Wardaddy that word is far worse and I’d say really....blacks themselves say it constantly ....I mean try being around some and listen ....it’s an affectionate or not so affectionate term for one another ...
In any event I’m sure the black person I asked hey where does the word “nigger” come from would have diffficulty saying the Niger River basin or the Spanish or creole word negro or negra
Cracker is a word that lives between Yankee and “nigger”
But it’s not quite quotation marks worthy
Kinda like squarehead
Amd acceptances morph
Here on free Republic 20 years ago I was publicly admonished for saying wetback or mojado
Can you imagine that today here
Maybe cracker will become a term of endearment to whites one day in America
Yo my cracker wazzup....kinda katchy
Yo my squarehead wazzup.....no quite the same is it
Wars are on the battlefield and history and cultural interpretations and to the victor goes the spoils unless he totally fcuks it up lol I’m the century afterwards
You are correct sir! I am one and proud of it. My family moved to Florida in 1868 on a 200 acre homestead grant from the government. I am a 4th generation Florida Cracker.
In this day and age, it is mainly used by black people as a derogatory term for whites they have a problem with. I see it as no different than the ‘word’ they complain about.
My Mom’s uncle who lived in Florida many moons ago called himself a Florida “Cracker”.
I’ve never bothered much with the etymology or anything, but I heard it was indeed about “cracker barrels” with barrels of crackers as was originally the packaging.
That term has been around quite awhile