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[quote=Anonymous]I am from Georgia.  Cracker is the same as "white trash" or just " trash."  It originated in North Georgia and, rather than racist, it is a perjorative used for a dirt poor, ignorant, uneducated and crude-manner white person from the mountains.  And often, but not always, "crackers" were racists themselves against black folks, former slaves, with whom they were a pretty similarly situated in the old south (after Emancipaction).

It has certainly been appropriated by some groups to use as a slur against those they view as ignorant white folks.  I don't know that I would be actually insulted if someone called a me a cracker but I would certainly be upset if they were using it to indicate I had behaved in a. Racist or ignorant manner.

The woman who called a white woman that on page one of the thread (in an anecdotal story) was clearly using it in a racist way however.  She was using it as any other hate-filled term based solely on the other person's skin color.  I would feel pity for her, though, for being so angry and feeling so ugly inside that she felt like lashing out at me solely because of my skin color.[/quote]

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