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As an insult, "cracker" was typically invoked against a white American, particularly (though not necessarily) lower-income, uneducated rural men in the South. The term did not have quite the extreme derisive power of the word " nigger," presumably due to the vastly lopsided social situation between southern whites and blacks when the term was common.
There are various theories about the origin of the term "cracker." The term has been traced to the 1760s, when it was used by the Earl of Dartmouth to refer to frontiersmen who were "great boasters." It may be derived from the Gaelic "craic," meaning "entertaining conversation." Other theories include references to the slavemaster term "whipcracker" and to the 18th century practice of cracking corn to make liquor.
On August 20, 2000, Internet gossip columnist Matt Drudge claimed that Donna Brazile, Al GoreAlbert Arnold Gore Jr. born March 31, 1948) is an American Democratic politician who served as the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He ran for President in 2000 following Bill Clinton's two four-year terms, but was defeat's campaign manager, called George W. BushGeorge Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States. His first four-year term as President began on January 20, 2001 following the controversial U. presidential election, 2000, where for the first time in American a "white cracker" while talking to New York PostThe New York Post is one of the oldest (and according to some definitions, the oldest) of the newspapers still published in the United States. It reminds its readers daily, it was founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1801. In 1933 it became a tabloid. It was gossip columnist Cindy Adams at the 2000 Democratic National ConventionThe 2000 Democratic National Convention nominated United States Vice President Al Gore for United States President and Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman for United States Vice President. The convention was held in Los Angeles, California at the Staples Ce.
When used in pop culture, the term "white cracker" or "cracker" is sometimes intended to be humorous, though the distinction is not always clear.
An example of this would be the animated television series South ParkThis article is about the animated television series. For other uses go to South Park (disambiguation). South Park is a comedy animated series created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker. Airing on Comedy Central since 1997, it follows the surreal adventures of. One episode features the character "Chef" (who is black) planning to get married. His friends (white grade-school children from the school where he works as a cook) are at his home, waiting to see him to warn him off from the marriage. While they wait on the sofa, Chef's elderly black father, as he is telling them a long-winded story about the Loch Ness MonsterThe Loch Ness Monster sometimes called Nessie is a creature or group of creatures said to live in Loch Ness, a large lake in Scotland near the city of Inverness. Nessie is generally considered a lake monster. Along with Bigfoot and Yeti, Nessie is perhaps, refers to them as "little crackers."
The rustic lives of crackers were the topic of the novels of Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsMarjorie Kinnan Rawlings ( August 8, 1896 December 13, 1953) is an American author who lived in remote rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer.
Before the Milwaukee Braves baseball team moved to Atlanta, the Atlanta minor league baseball team was known as the "Atlanta Crackers." The team existed under this name from 1901 until 1965. They were members of the Southern Association from their inception until 1961, and members of the International League from 1961 until they were moved to Richmond, Virginia in 1965. Ironically, an Atlanta team in Negro League Baseball was known as the Atlanta "Black Crackers."
The Florida Cracker Trail is a route posted across southern Florida by the Florida Department of Transportation .