Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Adam, > I didn't grow up where "cracker" was a slur I didn't know it was considered a "slur" (and I'm not sure I do know either), but it certainly is a derogatory term. > And it > wasn't a term I heard much in Mississippi either. I lived in Pascagoula from 1968-1973, and remember hearing it quite a bit. > I've come to associate it with a socio-economic term whose > negative connotation > were, for the most part, being diminished, and which was never as > negative as > any of the more common racial slurs. To me, it really was synonymous with "hick" or "red neck". I guess, now that I think of it, "red neck", "cracker" and "hick" really do apply, at least to me, to whites. Austin - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html