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submitted 6 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/hmmm

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Revisionism. When I was in school I was told it was because the poor whites owned a "cracker jack box of land."

In reality, cracker means "whip cracker." Also possibly just literally a type of soda cracker which is white, but these things tend towards both being true. Or what you told the whip crackers when they ask.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_(term)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

From your link: "The exact history and etymology of the word is debated."

[–] KillerTofu 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Poor whites didn’t own land.