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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.
"A pair of Georgia crackers" as depicted by illustrator James Wells Champney in the memoir The Great South by Edward King, 1873. Cracker, sometimes cracka or white cracker, is a racial slur directed at white people, [1] [2] [3] used especially with regard to poor rural whites in the Southern United States. [4]
It was not unusual for white and Negro league teams to have similar names, but in this case "Cracker" was a term with a complicated history, used sometimes as a colloquial and pejorative nickname for rural southern Whites, but also used affectionately by residents of Florida and Georgia who had long and deep ties to that region.
1. Ritz Crackers. Wouldn't ya know, a cracker that's all the rage in America is considered an outrage abroad. Ritz crackers are outlawed in several other countries, including the United Kingdom ...
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?
Georgia: Peach State [40] (used on license plates) 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
Much like its neighbor Alabama, Georgia was branded the Peach State in an effort to create an association with skilled agriculture and shift away from the state's history of cotton production ...
Then, the former Miami Marlins, a Class AAA International League team that had spent 1961 playing in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Charleston, West Virginia, moved to Atlanta and adopted the Crackers name, from "Georgia cracker" (which refers to early white settlers in Georgia) and "cracker," a pejorative term for poor rural White Southerners. [2]