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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pejorative doesn't equal racist.

I don't believe racial stereotypes against the majority are really racist.  Unkind or inappopriate, maybe, but not the same as calling someone the N word.[/quote]

Cracker = nigger. Period. [/quote]

Do you think cracker is worse than redneck?  Because I see them as about the same.

I think majority people (white people, men ...) who perceive things like "reverse" racism or sexism are revealing a lack of understanding of what racism and sexism really are, and may also feel marginalized within their own group.

Regardless of that uninformed viewpoint, cracker is certainly not the equivalent in any way of the N word.[/quote]

People associate cracker and redneck with the south but I believe a comedian  said PA was Pittsburgh and Philly with Alabama in the middle.  In NE there's a term cutterman.  It also might be used in PA and NY [upstate].    N word is more insulting because they were slaves.   Check out the Scots Irish:
http://www.amazon.com/Born-Fighting-Scots-Irish-Shaped-America/dp/0767916891[/quote]

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