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TexasBred":1evi3cr9 said:
Little "Bro" got that WTF look on his face "Cracka". :mrgreen: ;-)

Richard, I was told by a "Bullwhacker" who had a team of oxen at Ole Washington days celebration in my home town that the pejorative term "cracker" which means poor white folks in the south originated from the people who drove their oxen with long whips tied to the end of a long handle. People would hear them coming from a long distance off and say, "Here come the crackers." They usually were poor white folks who hauled everything they owned from place to place in an ox cart pulled by an oxen. Thus they became known as crackers. Soon anyone who was poor white trash became known as a cracker.
 
inyati13":gnegtok2 said:
TexasBred":gnegtok2 said:
Little "Bro" got that WTF look on his face "Cracka". :mrgreen: ;-)

Richard, I was told by a "Bullwhacker" who had a team of oxen at Ole Washington days celebration in my home town that the pejorative term "cracker" which means poor white folks in the south originated from the people who drove their oxen with long whips tied to the end of a long handle. People would hear them coming from a long distance off and say, "Here come the crackers." They usually were poor white folks who hauled everything they owned from place to place in an ox cart pulled by an oxen. Thus they became known as crackers. Soon anyone who was poor white trash became known as a cracker.

Also is said to be derived from the cracker cattle of the piney woods. This is the first and rarest breed of cattle in the USA and were brought here by the Spanish. They are similar to longhorns and were left in the woods to fend for themselves till the cowboys aka crackers would snap their whips and bring them to the pens where few if any were ever petted.

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Funny you would bring that up Jo. I was out riding the ranch with Cuz and he was showing me some cracker cows that dated back to the late 1800's. His Gpaw caught them up before he homesteaded in Fl. And up to 2001 they never had nothing but horned Brahman and Hereford bulls over them.
 

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