I took a linguistics course once on Engish dialects, and Cracker was one of them. If I remember right, it’s mostly from the Florida panhandle.
“If I remember right, it’s mostly from the Florida panhandle.”
IIRC I’ve seen that region referred to as “West Florida” and “The Old Southwest”.
Some of the earliest American cowboy country, in the late 1700s. Cattle were set loose to graze in what may have been pine forest then.