We used to call ourselves Crackers – referring to native born Floridians. That was about 45 years ago though, when most of the population of the state was moving in, rather than getting birthed there.
My family, well… we’re a lot of hillbillies and I have colored kin… I’ve definitely heard both terms used derogatorily.
Damn, Sam!
I also was born and raised in Alabama. MoGodbileAladamnBama, to be exact, and I have seen many things. This post had me crying tears of laughter. Not because I slight the slaves buried at the cemetery, but because you have identified “Dog” and his ilk as pieces of crap in your unique way.
“Never shoot your husband with anything larger than a .22” is priceless.
I once knew a Sam from Alabama who was smart enough to do what you do; his last name is Cash. He has a brother named “Johnny”, and last I knew, lived around Anniston. Say it ain’t so. This can’t be you, can it?
Whoever you are, I’ll bet you have a copy of “Network” in your VHS library.
WE ARE THE REALITY GODDAMMIT!
Anyway, I would like to know you better. Not in a gay way, but intellectually.
-Rob
I actually have a somewhat scholarly book on Florida (and southern in general) folk-architecture called Classic Cracker. There’s also a series of white trash cookbooks, a bit tongue-in-cheek but the recipes are all real and sometimes delicious. I doubt, though, you’ll ever find a Dummies Guide to Nigger Cuisine at Barnes & Noble, however, for once again the phrase white trash just doesn’t have the pejorative power.
I was actually telling that Englander from the norf and that Scotsman- the two blokes, about the inbreeding and outbreeding of my family. I told them that my family was reminiscent of the Royals in practice and geneology. Probably of the same branch some time ago, in Wales. But since, I have a breed apart. Honest people, webs, and hermaphrodites. Then I brought up my colored “guinea nigger” status and they were taken aback. Like I wouldn’t talk plainly about my reality. In the closet no longer.
The weird thing is that I’m a Welsh, Irish, Injun, Hillbilly, Nigger, German-Jew.
You know, my family were Miners.
The last slaves are the Miners. They’re expendable.
Solidarity.
You know, that kind of plays true in Tolkien’s analogy and Universe.
I’m a crude dwarf.
Melungeons are the Dwarven Race. Genetic misfits… wimmens with beards. The true gene match to real life diversity. The salt of the earth, so to speak
Whilst visiting the Cracker Country museum, I bought a cookbook. The cornbread recipe includes the instruction “1/2 c sugar(optional)”. I thought that was illegal in the South.
Soldiers and Miners, worthless, until we hid our heritage. We’ve come a long way, hiding our roots, but you have used my people long enough.
1/4cup is fair to midlands. 1/2cup seems excesive, but what the hey.
This reminds me of a short comedy sketch that had everyone who saw it laughing out loud.
WARNING: Not work safe.
I hate to admit it, but I actually… uh… much prefer sweet [or Yankee] cornbread to the pure variety…
One of mine, glad to see I’m remembered for something around here 
Damn. I know there was some movie or comedy sketch where a young black girl was complaining about her family’s situation and said, “It’s like we’re black white trash,” but I can’t remember what it was.
Anybody remember? Or did someone post it already and I just missed it?
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic]
There is no word for white people which is equivalent to “nigger,” and that’s all there is to it.
QUOTE]
This has been mentioned in other threads, but the term for all white people in Hawai’i is ‘Haole’, and it functions much the same way as other ethnic slurs- it’s fighting words if you mean it as fighting words, but it’s all ok within your ethnic group.
Last spring there was an episode in which two locals-of-polynesian-ancestry badly beat up two tourists-of-european-ancestry, over a driving incident. As the altercation escalated to the beating, the locals called the tourists "fing haoles". This made the beaters look like bad, tourist-beating racists on the news. Their counterarguement was that really, haole no longer meant white people neccessarily, it meant morons who act like haoles so often do, and it was just cooincident that they actually WERE haoles. In other words, they were mad at the tourists for ACTING like fing haoles, not for being f*ing haoles.
By extension, then, you could call non-haoles who act stupid by the term in question. This leads to the amusing possibility of calling giant Samoan guys “f*ing haoles” when they act stupid. Hilarity would then no doubt ensue. 
Point is, haole is a term commonly used as an ethnic slur to describe any or all white people. Now all we have to do is export it to the rest of the world, and this nagging linguistic deficit will be remedied.
The way I heard it,
“Italian tires are great! Dago in mud, dago in snow, and when dago flat dago wop wop wop.”