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Then I'd suggest you make yourself and the good folks of Georgia happy by not returning.

Stooch, that is fairly insulting.
Surely you don't want to stand at the fence hollering at each other here at RR, do you?

I don't know where the term 'cracker' came from but my mother used to talk about going to see the Atlanta Crackers (minor league baseball team) at Ga Tech campus field.....if my memory serves me correctly. Mick, is Grant field Ga Tech field?

I had a very good friend who used to call herself 'high yeller' because she had Cherokee blood (she was mostly African American) but the term is considered offensive here in the south because of how it has historically been used.

i've promised myself to not visit during any statewide elected official's demonstration of knot tying, ax handle wielding, rain praying, snake handling, or faith healing. that orta save me some gas.

Way, way back the Atlanta Crackers did play at Grant Field (Georgia Tech). I used to go to the Crackers games with my father but when I was a kid they played at Ponce de Leon Ballpark. It was across from the Sears Mail Order Catalogue building on Ponce de Leon.

Just a heads up folks.

I just read this thread now, and feel the need to say that this seems to be one of those threads that is drifiting, and in doing so is become a trade of insults.

Please get back on track and stop all insults.

Phil Hoskins, moderator

Personally, I consider the term "redneck" to be a badge of honor. It has been applied to many different groups in different countries, but in America it originated in 1921 when the West Virginia coal miners organized an army of 13000 men (wearing red bandannas around their necks as their insignia) and confronted the local corrupt law enforcement and mine owner's goons on Blair Mountain. They lost the battle but they won the war and as a result coal miners gained one of the strongest unions in the country.

The ironic thing is that the term originally referred to some folks who were pretty radical in their ideas about politics and economics. (Some would even claim to be Communists!) Over the decades it has been applied to a more and more conservative set of ideas, but those old populist anti-corporate views are still there in the older folks who self-identify as rednecks.

Thank you, Phil.
I didn't want to have to bring out my Florida list.

All of this invention of various terms for fractions of Black ancestry is based on the silly idea that any "Black Blood" at all makes you Black. This was the rationalization the southern slave owners needed to (often personally) breed generations of slaves that looked much like themselves and the rest of their family, but still be subjugated, sold, murdered, and so forth on the owner's whims.

It was (and still is) silly because EVERYONE has Black ancestry!