(US, dated, mildly, _, derogatory) A lower-class white person in the Southern United States.
(US, dated, mildly, _, derogatory) A lower-class white person in the Southern United States.
Our summons was answered by its owner, a well-to-do, substantial, middle-aged planter, wearing the ordinary homespun of the district, but evidently of a station in life much above the common "corn-crackers" I had seen at the country meet…
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(US, pejorative, racial slur, slang) (impoverished white person).
(US, slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Of or relating to white people.
(pejorative) Something or someone considered stereotypical of rural, Southern US attitudes or attributes.
(US, historical) A descendant of colonial-era British American pioneer settlers in modern-day Georgia.
(US, dated) An agricultural machine for cracking corn kernels.
1847 August, The Prairie Farmer, Volumes 6-8, "Editor's Table", [https://books.google.ca/books?id=Vn02AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA261&dq=%22corn-cracker%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4XAlVb_nIsnjsAWR-YFA&ved=0CFgQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=%22corn-cracker%22&f=false p…