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Category Archives: “The Lower South” Vol. 17

Vol. 17, Chap. 11 – “Cracker” Country

The term “cracker” was used during the Elizabethan era in England to describe arrogant men who bragged a lot about a little.  Even William Shakespeare used the term in King John, Act II, Scene I “What cracker is this same that deafs our ears with abundance of superfluous breath?”   By the late 1700’s the term […]