Traditionally, crackers are to the lowland south (South Georgia, Northern Florida, etc.) as hillbillies are to Appalachia.
Yeah, I'd say there's also an implication of white trash.
Reavers ain't men. Or they forgot how to be. Now they're just nothing. They got out to the edge of the galaxy, to that place of nothing, and that's what they became.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Dana - May 01, 2009 8:54:07 am PDT #17654 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
lisah - May 01, 2009 8:54:56 am PDT #17655 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
yeah, I've always heard poor white too but my co-worker, who grew up in Texas, was like "no! It was from the 'cracking' whip of the slaveowners." Wikipedia mentions both.
I was wondering if it was a regional thing.
amych - May 01, 2009 8:56:57 am PDT #17656 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
The cracking thing sets off my cutesy-etymology spidey sense.
lisah - May 01, 2009 8:57:45 am PDT #17657 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
The cracking thing sets off my cutesy-etymology spidey sense.
Hah! yeah.
Allyson - May 01, 2009 9:16:35 am PDT #17658 of 30000
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Today is my last day here. I'm on vacation next week, and then start at JPL the week after.
Last days are so weird...
Calli - May 01, 2009 9:22:47 am PDT #17659 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
None of which advanced the cause of women in the workplace, but god, the colors his face turned.
Good! Unless you're performing a morning-long session of brain surgery every day, why the hell should he care if you go to the bathroom?
Kat - May 01, 2009 9:27:07 am PDT #17660 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
But yay! LAST DAY!!
Connie Neil - May 01, 2009 9:27:15 am PDT #17661 of 30000
brillig
Unless you're performing a morning-long session of brain surgery every day, why the hell should he care if you go to the bathroom?
Must maintain a proper number of techs on the line, you're supposed to be working, nobody else is taking such frequent bathroom breaks, blah blah. I just adore the "Nobody else is" school of management. I'm sorely tempted to say, "Well, everyone else is an appalling little sheeple. I'm better than they are," just to watch his lockstepping little brain seize up. God forbid you think your brains and abilities entitle you to better treatment.
Barb - May 01, 2009 9:45:20 am PDT #17662 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
I was wondering if it was a regional thing.
It's always seemed synonymous with Georgia/Florida poor white although in North and Central Florida, at least, "cracker" denotes native-born, with no negative connotation.
msbelle - May 01, 2009 9:46:36 am PDT #17663 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I am having a severe and acute onset of the sillies. OMG, am crying from laughing over NOTHING.