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I'm a Saltine-American.

Damn crackers!

Correction............Privileged Saltine-American.

Good one! (thumbs up)

Club-American.

Honky!

Good one! (thumbs up)

Cracka ass cracker

Peckerwood

“Cracker” is meant as whip cracker....... not a fuggin nabisco saltine

I found a 20 dollar bill on the ground, now I'm a ritz cracker.

Any of you clowns know the origins of the word?

Every time I hear the word I laugh at the ignorance displayed.

Early use began in England circa 1700's. Later on in the Land of the Free it was an attribution used to characterize cattle drovers who used bullwhips.

It's a compliment of sorts, though most fail to grasp the origins.

My wife calls me a redneck but I say "honey,all my cars up on blocks are in the backyard so that makes me a cracker"

Better than being an Oyster-American I suppose

As Dan alluded to, here in Florida, the term was given to the “cow hunters” that used a whip to round up cattle in the swamps and on the plains. Florida was a cattle producer long before the west was.

Ok-

Question for all you history buffs-

Where were the first actual "Cattle Drives " conducted in the U.S.?

That is - driving large herds of Cattle from pastures to market?

I'm that other kind of pale ethnic-- a Krauthead. About the only differences are the spices we use on our pork sausage and the fact that we're genetically disposed to wear shorts all year 'round.

My father would tell you that Germans were the original cowboys. Of course I would roll my eyes. According to my Dad, a German discovered America, invented the light bulb, etc.

Maybe he was right:

Zesta-American