United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018Burrison, John A., 1942-2002-07-24Encyclopedia article about the term crackers. The epithet cracker has been applied in a derogatory way, like redneck, to rural, non-elite white southerners, more specifically to those of south Georgia and north Florida. Folk etymology claims the term originated either from their cracking, or pounding, of corn (rather than taking it to mill), or from their use of whips to drive cattle. The latter explanation makes sense, because in piney-woods Georgia and Florida pastoral yeomen did use bullwhips with "cracker" tips to herd cattle.text/htmlengForms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.Scots-Irish--GeorgiaImmigrants--GeorgiaRednecks--GeorgiaRural population--GeorgiaWhites--GeorgiaCowboys--GeorgiaCrackersText