To: AnAmericanMother
In Texas, we picked plenty of cotton, but until the term redneck was popularized, we used the term "cedar chopper." Most of the cedar choppers were pretty tough hombres. If you've ever had to clear brush in Texas, you know where the term comes from.
297 posted on
01/24/2005 7:55:22 PM PST by
Richard Kimball
(We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men are ready to do violence on our behalf)
To: Richard Kimball
"Most of the cedar choppers were pretty tough hombres." If you swing a double bit axe all day you either get tough or die.
301 posted on
01/24/2005 8:15:05 PM PST by
TexasCowboy
(Texan by birth, citizen of Jesusland by the Grace of God)
To: Richard Kimball
"Cedar chopper" is a local term, like "cracker".
My hat's off to anybody who earns a living chopping that twisty, tough, deep-rooted stuff! It is probably worse than kudzu (there's just so much MORE kudzu). Get me a bush hog!
("Crackers" are possibly so called because they cracked their whips over the heads of livestock they were driving to market.)
318 posted on
01/25/2005 5:02:03 AM PST by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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