[gridlock]

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman or a president to do one cotton-picking thing.

Seriously... I am not a PC maven or anything... but one should endeavor not to use the term cotton-picking in written or verbal communication unless the intent is to transmit racial ideas.

[WashingtonSource]

Are you saying only people of one race pick cotton? There were many poor whites who also picked cotton on small farms. So, there is no racial component. Cotton picking is a back-bracking business. It’s a great metaphor. Leave it alone.

[wita]

one should endeavor not to use the term cotton-picking in written or verbal communication unless the intent is to transmit racial ideas.

In earlier times, cotton picking was not a racial issue, it was a farming or financial issue and there aren’t many white people growing up in the rural south before 1950 that didn’t have the honor and privilege of being one.