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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (36933)	8/4/2005 4:40:08 PM
From: Tradelite	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

definition of cracker......somehow yours doesn't match the one I found at netstate.com The Cracker State: Along with Florida, Georgia has been called "The Cracker State" in earlier times. This Georgia nickname was a derogatory term that referred to immigrants, called "Crackers," from the mountains of Virginia and North Carolina. Crackers were considered less than ideal citizens.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (36933)	8/4/2005 6:11:14 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

A "cracker" doesn't have to be born in Florida. dictionary.reference.com "#3 Offensive. 1. Used as a disparaging term for a poor white person of the rural, especially southeast United States. 2. Used as a disparaging term for a white person."

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (36933)	8/4/2005 8:01:43 PM
From: shades	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

I am florida born, born in palm beach, but 3 days later dad was transferred to germany and I spent most of my childhood there and hawaii - so I never considered myself a redneck or cowboy. I was called howlie a lot though. I would consider most of my moms brothers rednecks though. They all love to get thier hunting dogs every weekend and go chase deer through the woods. My cousins tell me I missed out living overseas, but I tell them about the legal drinking ages in germany when I was there and those cold winters where the beautiful european girls needed someone warm to cuddle too and don't understand how weak american beer and chasing deer in the woods would have been a better youth - hehe.