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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Is "white trash" more or less polite than "cracker"? Or do they have crackers in the north? What other terms are there? I would love to learn some new denigrating terms for groups of people I wish to distance myself from because those groups include relatives.
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To my ear, Cracker has racist overtones that white trash doesn't. Hence, white trash is found indigenously everywhere, while crackers are a subset of white trash (also a subset of "redneck," which isn't synonymous with either) which, if found outside of the south, can usually be traced back to a former Jim Crow state.
