more "cracker"
Victor Steinbok
aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Wed Feb 1 15:49:27 UTC 2012
Ed Kilgore, who considers himself a Southerner and was just commenting
yesterday that he grew up in Northeast Florida:
> Basically, the more a county resembled GA or AL, the more likely it
> was that Newt would win, and that, of course, will be part of his
> rationale for continuing on, at least to states where
> Crackro-Americans dominate.
> UPDATE: Since it came up in the comment thread, yes indeedy, I am a
> proud "Crackro-American" (the term was, I believe, coined by Georgia
> journalist Roy Blount Jr. back in the day), and certainly did not
> intend to offend myself.
VS-)
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