• JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca
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    10 hours ago

    Thought it referred to southerners so poor they had to eat cracked corn like livestock

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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      6 hours ago

      IIRC the original meaning was about poverty and then it became about whip cracking, which meant white people in general