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To: Smokin' Joe
Well said Joe but you need to know where the term “cracker” came from. Florida cowboys were called “crackers” because they cracked whips to move the cattle along, Florida crackers. It has come to mean something else, an ignorant white person from the south.
8 posted on 07/31/2013 5:13:52 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: Ditter

Plantation overseers were called “crackers” because they cracked a whip to keep the field hands under control.


9 posted on 07/31/2013 5:48:46 AM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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