Florida crackers are the descendants of colonial-era British American pioneer settlers in what is now the U.S. state of Florida, and a subculture of White Southerners. The first crackers arrived in 17
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A Cracker Cowboy (1895) by Frederic Remington, illustrating cracker Bone Mizell (1863–1921)
Cracker, sometimes cracka or white cracker, is a racial slur directed at white people, used especially with regard to poor rural whites in the Southern United States. It is commonly a pejorative, thou
Florida cracker
…William H. Whitaker (1821–1888) – Early settler of Sarasota, noted Florida cracker cattlemen and citrus grower Cracker (term) – about use of the term as a slur Cracker Country – a living-history village at the Florida State Fair…
"A pair of Georgia crackers" as depicted by illustrator James Wells Champney in the memoir The Great South by Edward King, 1873