Cracker Culture
Cracker Culture is a provocative study of social life in the Old South that probes the origin of cultural differences between the South and the North throughout American history. Among Scotch-Irish settlers the term Cracker initially designated a person who boasted, but in American usage the word has come to designate poor whites. McWhiney uses the term to define culture rather than to signify an economic condition. Although all poor whites were Crackers, not all Crackers were poor whites; both…
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- Full title :Cracker Culture / Grady McWhiney ; with a prologue by Forrest McDonald.
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Cracker Culture is a provocative study of social life in the Old South that probes the origin of cultural differences between the South and the North throughout American history. Among Scotch-Irish settlers the term Cracker initially designated a person who boasted, but in American usage the word has come to designate poor whites. McWhiney uses the term to define culture rather than to signify an economic condition. Although all poor whites were Crackers, not all Crackers were poor whites; both, however, were Southerners.
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- Publication Date:1988.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Alabama Press
- Place of Publication:University, Ala
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1988.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xliii, 290 pages :) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0817304584, 9780817304584
- oclc:on1001498152
- LC Classification:F213
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