www.straightdope.com/classics/a981030.html
Maddox said 'crack corn' came from the old English term 'crack,' meaning gossip, and that 'cracking corn' was a traditional Shenandoah expression for 'sitting around chitchatting.' Maddox claimed 'Jimmy Crack Corn' was an abolitionist song, and that 'blue-tail fly' referred to federal troops in their blue uniforms overthrowing the slave owners.
(Maddox said 'crack corn' came from the old English term 'crack,' meaning gossip, and that 'cracking corn' was a traditional Shenandoah expression for 'sitting around chitchatting.' Maddox claimed 'Jimmy Crack Corn' was an abolitionist song, and that 'blue-tail fly' referred to federal troops in their blue uniforms overthrowing the slave owners.
butchbint,
Fri 5 Sep 2003, 12:39,
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Or# The most common explanation for the origin of this phrase is that it is from corncracker, or someone who distills corn whiskey (cracking corn is to crush it into a mash for distillation). The song lyric "Jimmy Crack Corn" is a reference to this. In the song a slave sings about his master got drunk, fell, hit his head, and died. And the slave "don't care." The usage, however, is probably not the origin of the term cracker.
phobos.ramapo.edu/~pchang/etymology_of_hate.htm
(phobos.ramapo.edu/~pchang/etymology_of_hate.htm
butchbint,
Fri 5 Sep 2003, 12:42,
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Thanks for looking it up..,it was only related by "Crap but I don't care" purely pop culture...
( Hyksos,
Fri 5 Sep 2003, 12:44,
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B3ta is supoib...I only thought Americans would get that...but thank god for the "intryweb"...
( Hyksos,
Fri 5 Sep 2003, 12:51,
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