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Cracker State — Along with Florida, Georgia had been called "The Cracker State" in earlier times, perhaps a derogatory term that referred to immigrants, called "crackers", from the mountains of Virginia and North Carolina. [41] See also Atlanta Crackers: Origin of the name
Buzzard, Cracker, Goober-grabber [20] Guam: Guamanian Chamorro: Tåotåo Guåhån Hawaii: Hawaii resident Islander, [21] Kamaʻāina. The Associated Press Stylebook restricts use of "Hawaiian" to people of Native Hawaiian descent. [22] Hawaiian: Kamaʻāina Idaho: Idahoan Illinois: Illinoisan
Among some Georgians, the term is used as a proud or jocular self-description. Since the influx of new residents into Georgia from the northern United States in the late 20th century, "Georgia cracker" has become used informally by some white residents of Georgia of Scots-Irish and English stock, to indicate that their family has lived there for many generations.
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Just because the state is called the "Corn Cracker State", doesn't mean the people are called "Corn-crackers". This is a list of demonyms, not state nicknames. That same source identifies Texas as the "Lone Star State", but that doesn't mean the people are called "Lone-stars". – j ak s mata 21:17, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
In the 1950s, state officials wanted to swap the name, but locals refused, threatening to switch it back to Jackass Junction. Today, Yeehaw is a tiny census-designated place, dotted at the meeting ...
On Thursday, the Administration published its lists of the most popular names for baby boys and girls born in each state in 2018.
The term cracker was in use during the Elizabethan era to describe braggarts and blowhards. The original root of this is the Middle English word crack, meaning "entertaining conversation" (which survives as a verb, as in "to crack a joke"); the noun in the Gaelicized spelling craic also retains currency in Ireland and to some extent in Scotland and Northern England, in a sense of 'fun' or ...