Crackers (Re: Rock & Roll and Language)

[Ted Samsel]

paul sez:
> 
> Steven Maas (CUTR) wrote: (about the term 'cracker.'
> 
> > It's a lot like other ethnic terms--members of the group can say it but
> > outsiders better watch their step.
> 
> 
> I say: Quite true. Plus there's the noblesse oblige factor.
> The dominant group has to be more careful. In Florida politics
> crackers are still plausibly in the ascendency. However, don't
> refer to a white southerner who comes into D.C. to install your
> water heater a cracker, not to his face anyway.

Good old boy works....
But as I inferred, there's a good deal of anti-Southernness around
the Northeast. One should remember what JFK said about Washington,
DC:

"A place that combines the manners and gentility of the northeast
with the efficiency of the south."

Huddie Ledbetter called it:

"a bourgois (sp) town"

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net