Posted on 03/14/2016 4:46:01 PM PDT by kevcol
Florida is a sprawling, diverse swing state with multiple voting blocs and ethnicities, which is part of what makes it so unpredictable in politics.
With the presidential race in full swing here, two constituencies in particular help show just how different Florida voters can be: The Cubans, a vocal voting bloc of immigrant exiles and the Florida crackers, families who have lived here for generations. Both lean Republican, but each community represents two very different types of Florida voters.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
hi, I’m a cracker (raising hand)
So if a Conservative said this?
Half of Florida is stacked with NY snowbirds.
Yeah. The author has obviously never been in Boca Raton or Daytona Beach in the winter.
The kosher delis are sold out.
Isn’t “cracker” a derogatory racial slur? This is confusing.
CNN Int’l. Written by a Brit? All I run into are Jews in Florida.
Yes but the writers are a limey and a hebe, also Leftists and probably fags, thus they are permitted to shoot up.
No one is ever permitted to shoot (or punch) down but the weak sniveling classes may always shoot up.
The term “Cracker” is misused by nearly everyone.
It really refers to early settlers of North East Florida and South Georgia or at least that is who they were originally.
To be a Florida Cracker is a source of great pride for many. Crackers were poor whites, mostly homesteaders with small farms.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Cracker_Trail
Florida cracker refers to colonial-era English and American pioneer settlers and their descendants in what is now the U.S. state of Florida. The first of these arrived in 1763 after Spain traded Florida to Great Britain following the latter’s victory over France in the Seven Years’ War.
every Cuban I know is voting Trump...multi generations too.
so I am cracker
sigh. CNN
Only ever known one in years of this county of St Johns county. Don’t know any muslims, but have seen one woman, though she could have been a tourist.
Fwiw, the best known Florida Cracker these days is Democrat senator Bill Nelson. Whoever wrote that CNN story is ignorant.
Can a cracker call another cracker a cracker?
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