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=="Cracker" and "White Trash"==
=="Cracker" and "White Trash"==
"Cracker" has a similar negative meaning; it was commonly used before the Civil War; Georgia became known as the "Cracker State." The term was in use by 1766: it was
"Cracker" has a similar negative meaning; it was commonly used before the Civil War; Georgia became known as the "Cracker State." The term was in use by 1766: it was
:" a name they have got from being great boasters; they are a lawless set of rascals on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia, who often change their place of abode.
:"a name they have got from being great boasters; they are a lawless set of rascals on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia, who often change their place of abode."<ref>see McWhiney, ''Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South'' (1988)</ref>
<ref>see McWhiney, ''Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South'' (1988)</ref>
By the antebellum period, rural southern poor whites with a striking avoidance of hard work, seemed increasingly out of place in a nation of [[yeoman]] farmers, Yankee tradesmen, and urban artisans. Northern abolitionists blamed the slave system for its degrading and dehumanizing effects on poor whites. Conversely, southern proslavery spokesmen saw the same poor whites as victims of their own laziness and immorality. In either case, the categorization of that group as "white trash"—a term in use by 1855—helped define a stigmatized, dishonored, and despised identity.<ref>See Wray (2006)</ref>
By the antebellum period, rural southern poor whites with a striking avoidance of hard work, seemed increasingly out of place in a nation of [[yeoman]] farmers, Yankee tradesmen, and urban artisans. Northern abolitionists blamed the slave system for its degrading and dehumanizing effects on poor whites. Conversely, southern proslavery spokesmen saw the same poor whites as victims of their own laziness and immorality. In either case, the categorization of that group as "white trash"—a term in use by 1855—helped define a stigmatized, dishonored, and despised identity.<ref>See Wray (2006)</ref>