Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South
by Grady McWhiney
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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; show more both, however, were Southerners. The author insists that Southerners and North show lessTags
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Illuminating discussion of importation of Celtic attitudes and culture to the American South and its influence on development and history.
second paperback printing 1990
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- Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South
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- Frederick Law Olmsted
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- Nonfiction, History, Anthropology, General Nonfiction
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- 975.03 — History & geography History of North America Southeastern United States (South Atlantic states) 1776-1865: Antebellum Era & Civil War
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- F213 .M38 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America United States local history The South. South Atlantic States
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