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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.
Cracker, sometimes cracka or white cracker, is a racial epithet directed towards white people, [1] [2] [3] used especially with regard to poor rural whites in the Southern United States. [4] Although commonly a pejorative , it is also used in a neutral context, particularly in reference to a native of Florida or Georgia (see Florida cracker and ...
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The South is known for having their own lingo. But these six phrases are pretty unique to the Peach state. Do you know them all?
Plain Folk of the Old South is a 1949 book by American Vanderbilt University historian Frank Lawrence Owsley, one of the Southern Agrarians.In it he used statistical data to analyze the makeup of Southern United States of America society, contending that yeoman farmers made up a larger middle class than was generally thought.
A History of Georgia (1991). Survey by scholars. Coulter, E. Merton. A Short History of Georgia (1933) Grant, Donald L. The Way It Was in the South: The Black Experience in Georgia 1993; London, Bonta Bullard. (1999) Georgia: The History of an American State Montgomery, Alabama: Clairmont Press ISBN 1-56733-994-8. A middle school textbook.
Millions of people across Georgia are lining up to cast their votes in two state runoff elections that will determine which party controls the U.S. Senate. The reason these runoffs are even ...
The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War, 1982 ed. New York: American Heritage Publishing, 1960. ISBN 0-517-38556-2. Catton, Bruce. Grant Takes Command. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1968. ISBN 0-316-13210-1. Connelly, Thomas L. Autumn of Glory: The Army of Tennessee 1862–1865. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1971.