One state, two Floridas: A land of Cubans and crackers

CNN International ^ | March 14, 2016 | Chris Moody and Jeff Simon

[Bringbackthedraft]

They left out most of the fly over implants.

[Bringbackthedraft]

It’s a far second but Floriduh is second only to Minnesoduh
in flat stupidity. .............................. LOL, you will never convince all the resettled NY’ers on the east coast of that. They know it all.

[Arlis]

My family is from Gainesville - very conservative....uncle was mayor for many years.......both Dad & uncle UF grads......

The UF libs have taken over - but the old-time families are still there and still conservative....they are not Gainesville natives, but imports.........

Born in Miami Beach in WWII, parents told me I was a Florida Cracker from the time I learned to talk........a Virginian now - but still a Florida Cracker.........

[Slambat]

“You are mis-informed.”

Yea I know I looked it up. Makes a lot of sense. Blacks
calling whites Floriduh Cowmen.

“You, you Crackaa” ie. Floriduh Cowman.

Yea, lots of sense.

The term Floridduh Cracker and Cracker are different:

Cracker: Cracker, sometimes white cracker or cracka, is a usually disparaging term for white people,[1] especially poor rural whites in the Southern United States. In reference to a native of Florida or Georgia, however, it is sometimes used in a neutral or positive context or self-descriptively with pride (see Florida cracker and Georgia cracker).[2]

So in Floriduh and Georgia(#5) being a “Cracker” is good.
And that’s what makes Florida(#2) Floriduh.

But hay, I was wrong and you straightened me out.

[Cvengr]

I’m not a cracker,...just a well-to-do redneck.

[manc]

that is what many around here say LOL.

[wardaddy]

Florida Jews are crackers?

Oy vey

Hold the mayo!

[keving]

Puerto Ricans to

Cuban, Ricans and Crackers oh my (Jews). :)

[Rockingham]

Whomever as an editor approved this for CNN ought to be thwacked upside the head with the 2016 hardback edition of The Almanac of American Politics and then required to write out the narrative sections on Florida five times in longhand.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

At least they didn’t use the “n” word.