Florida cracker, the Glossary
Florida crackers were colonial-era British American pioneer settlers in what is now the U.S. state of Florida; the term is also applied to their descendants, to the present day, and their subculture among white Southerners.[1]
Table of Contents
65 relations: A Land Remembered, Al Burt, Ben Hill Griffin Jr., Boasting, Bone Mizell, British Americans, Cowboy, Cracker (term), Cracker Country, Craic, Earl of Dartmouth, Elizabethan era, English Americans, Florida, Florida cracker, Florida cracker (disambiguation), Florida Cracker cattle, Florida Cracker Horse, Florida Western, Folk etymology, Francis A. Hendry, Frederic Remington, Frostproof, Florida, Georgia cracker, Goidelic languages, Harper's Weekly, Homeland, Florida, House, Ireland, Jacob Summerlin Jr., Joke, King John (play), Lasso, Latin America, Lawton Chiles, List of governors of Florida, Living history, Lois Lenski, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Miami Herald, Middle English, Northern England, Patrick D. Smith, PBS, Polk County, Florida, Scotch-Irish Americans, Scotland, Scottish Americans, Seraph on the Suwanee, Settler, ... Expand index (15 more) »
- American regional nicknames
- English-American history
- Florida cracker culture
- Symbols of Florida
A Land Remembered
A Land Remembered is a best-selling novel written by author Patrick D. Smith, and published in 1984 by Pineapple Press. Florida cracker and a Land Remembered are Florida cracker culture.
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Al Burt
Alvin Victor Burt (September 11, 1927 – November 29, 2008) an author and longtime journalist at The Miami Herald in Florida, was born Sept. Florida cracker and al Burt are Florida cracker culture.
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Ben Hill Griffin Jr.
Ben Hill Griffin Jr. (October 10, 1910 – March 1, 1990) was a prominent American businessman, citrus producer, politician, and philanthropist who was a native and resident of Florida.
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Boasting
Boasting or bragging is speaking with excessive pride and self-satisfaction about one's achievements, possessions, or abilities.
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Bone Mizell
Morgan Bonaparte "Bone" Mizell (1863–1921) was a Floridian cattle herder, and one of the early Florida frontiersmen known as Florida crackers. Florida cracker and Bone Mizell are cowboys and Florida cracker culture.
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British Americans
British Americans usually refers to Americans whose ancestral origin originates wholly or partly in the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland and also the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands, and Gibraltar).
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Cowboy
A cowboy is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks. Florida cracker and cowboy are American cattlemen and cowboys.
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Cracker (term)
Cracker, sometimes cracka or white cracker, is a racial epithet directed towards white people, used especially with regard to poor rural whites in the Southern United States.
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Cracker Country
Cracker Country is a living history museum of rural Florida, and Florida Cracker culture which was established in 1978 by Mildred and Doyle Carlton Jr. Florida cracker and Cracker Country are Florida cracker culture.
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Craic
Craic or crack is a term for news, gossip, fun, entertainment, and enjoyable conversation, particularly prominent in Ireland.
Earl of Dartmouth
Earl of Dartmouth is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain.
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Elizabethan era
The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603).
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English Americans
English Americans (historically known as Anglo-Americans) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England. Florida cracker and English Americans are English-American history.
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Florida
Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
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Florida cracker
Florida crackers were colonial-era British American pioneer settlers in what is now the U.S. state of Florida; the term is also applied to their descendants, to the present day, and their subculture among white Southerners. Florida cracker and Florida cracker are American cattlemen, American regional nicknames, cowboys, English-American history, Florida cracker culture, people from Florida and Symbols of Florida.
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Florida cracker (disambiguation)
Florida cracker or Florida Cracker may refer to. Florida cracker and Florida cracker (disambiguation) are Florida cracker culture.
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Florida Cracker cattle
The Florida Cracker or Florida Scrub is an American breed of cattle. Florida cracker and Florida Cracker cattle are Florida cracker culture and Symbols of Florida.
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Florida Cracker Horse
The Florida Cracker Horse is a critically endangered horse breed from the state of Florida in the United States. Florida cracker and Florida Cracker Horse are Florida cracker culture and Symbols of Florida.
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Florida Western
The term Florida Western is used to describe a small number of films and literary works set in the 19th century, particularly around the time of the Second Seminole War. Florida cracker and Florida Western are Florida cracker culture.
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Folk etymology
Folk etymology – also known as (generative) popular etymology, analogical reformation, (morphological) reanalysis and etymological reinterpretation – is a change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more familiar one through popular usage.
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Francis A. Hendry
Francis Asbury "Berry" Hendry (November 19, 1833 – February 12, 1917) was a Florida cattle rancher, politician, and served during the Third Seminole War and the American Civil War.
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Frederic Remington
Frederic Sackrider Remington (October 4, 1861 – December 26, 1909) was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in the genre of Western American Art.
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Frostproof, Florida
Frostproof is a city in Polk County, Florida, United States.
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Georgia cracker
Georgia crackers refer to the original American pioneer settlers of the Province of Georgia (later, the State of Georgia), and their descendants. Florida cracker and Georgia cracker are American regional nicknames and cowboys.
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Goidelic languages
The Goidelic or Gaelic languages (teangacha Gaelacha; cànanan Goidhealach; çhengaghyn Gaelgagh) form one of the two groups of Insular Celtic languages, the other being the Brittonic languages.
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Harper's Weekly
Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City.
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Homeland, Florida
Homeland is an unincorporated community in Polk County, Florida, United States.
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House
A house is a single-unit residential building.
Ireland
Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.
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Jacob Summerlin Jr.
Jacob Summerlin (February 20, 1820 – November 4, 1893), aka the King of the Crackers and King of the Cracker Cow Hunters, was documented as the first child born in Florida after the land was ceded by Spain. Florida cracker and Jacob Summerlin Jr. are American cattlemen and people from Florida.
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Joke
A joke is a display of humour in which words are used within a specific and well-defined narrative structure to make people laugh and is usually not meant to be interpreted literally.
King John (play)
The Life and Death of King John, a history play by William Shakespeare, dramatises the reign of John, King of England (ruled 1199–1216), the son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine and the father of Henry III of England.
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Lasso
A lasso or lazo, also called in Mexico reata and la reata, and in the United States riata or lariat (from Mexican Spanish, lasso for roping cattle), is a loop of rope designed as a restraint to be thrown around a target and tightened when pulled.
Latin America
Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.
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Lawton Chiles
Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr. (April 3, 1930 – December 12, 1998) was an American politician and military officer.
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List of governors of Florida
The governor of Florida is the head of government of the U.S. state of Florida and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.
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Living history
Living history is an activity that incorporates historical tools, activities and dress into an interactive presentation that seeks to give observers and participants a sense of stepping back in time.
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Lois Lenski
Lois Lenore Lenski Covey (October 14, 1893 – September 11, 1974) was a Newbery Medal-winning author and illustrator of picture books and children's literature.
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953); accessed December 8, 2014.
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Miami Herald
The Miami Herald is an American daily newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company and headquartered in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
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Middle English
Middle English (abbreviated to ME) is a form of the English language that was spoken after the Norman Conquest of 1066, until the late 15th century.
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Northern England
Northern England, or the North of England, is a region that forms the northern part of England and mainly corresponds to the historic counties of Cheshire, Cumberland, Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, Westmorland and Yorkshire.
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Patrick D. Smith
Patrick Davis Smith (October 8, 1927 – January 26, 2014) was an American author.
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PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.
Polk County, Florida
Polk County is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Florida.
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Scotch-Irish Americans
Scotch-Irish Americans (or Scots-Irish) Americans are American descendants of primarily Ulster Scots people who emigrated from Ulster (Ireland's northernmost province) to the United States during the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Scotland
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Scottish Americans
Scottish Americans or Scots Americans (Ameireaganaich Albannach; Scots-American) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in Scotland.
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Seraph on the Suwanee
Seraph on the Suwanee is a 1948 novel by African-American novelist Zora Neale Hurston. Florida cracker and Seraph on the Suwanee are Florida cracker culture.
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Settler
A settler is a person who has immigrated to an area and established a permanent residence there.
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Seven Years' War
The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas.
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Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.
Strawberry Girl
Strawberry Girl is a Newbery Medal winning novel written and illustrated by Lois Lenski. Florida cracker and Strawberry Girl are Florida cracker culture.
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The Yearling
The Yearling is a novel by American writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, published in March 1938.
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Thirteen Colonies
The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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University Press of Florida
The University Press of Florida (UPF) is the scholarly publishing arm of the State University System of Florida, representing Florida's twelve state universities.
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Vaquero
The vaquero (vaqueiro) is a horse-mounted livestock herder of a tradition that has its roots in the Iberian Peninsula and extensively developed in Mexico from a methodology brought to the Americas from Spain.
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Western United States
The Western United States, also called the American West, the Western States, the Far West, and the West, is the region comprising the westernmost U.S. states.
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White Southerners
White Southerners, are White Americans from the Southern United States, originating from the various waves of Northwestern European immigration to the region beginning in the 17th century.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.
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World Digital Library
The World Digital Library (WDL) is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress.
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Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker.
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1st Florida Special Cavalry Battalion
The 1st Florida Battalion Special Cavalry, nicknamed the "Cow Cavalry", was a Confederate States Army cavalry unit from Florida during the American Civil War.
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See also
American regional nicknames
- Bonackers
- Boomers (Oklahoma settlers)
- Cheesehead
- Coastie
- Florida cracker
- Georgia cracker
- Hillbilly
- Hoosier
- Jayhawker
- List of demonyms for US states and territories
- Melonheads
- Michigander
- Nutmegger
- Okie
- Piney (Pine Barrens resident)
- Redneck
- Sooners
- Swamp Yankee
- Tar Heel
- Tejanos
- Texians
- Tuckahoes and Cohees
- Yankee
- Yinzer
- Yooper
English-American history
- Amelia Barr House
- American English
- Anglo-Americans
- Apartment Building at 27 and 31 Peru Street and 29 Johnson Street
- Cigar Makers' International Union
- Cold Saturday
- Cottonwood Ranch
- Duplex at 22-26 Johnson Street
- English Americans
- Florida cracker
- Fort Street Presbyterian Church (Detroit)
- Grace Episcopal Church (Georgetown, Colorado)
- Hathaway's Tavern
- Locations in the United States with an English name
- Newlin Mill Complex
- Old World Wisconsin
- Plain Folk of the Old South
- Swamp Yankee
- Texians
- Yankee
Florida cracker culture
- A Land Remembered
- Al Burt
- Bensen House
- Bone Mizell
- Cracker Country
- Cracker Gothic
- Florida Cracker Horse
- Florida Cracker Trail
- Florida Cracker cattle
- Florida Western
- Florida cracker
- Florida cracker (disambiguation)
- Florida cracker architecture
- Plumb House (Clearwater, Florida)
- Seraph on the Suwanee
- Strawberry Girl
- Winchester Symphony House
Symbols of Florida
- Agate
- American alligator
- American flamingo
- Atlantic sailfish
- Calle Ocho Festival
- Coconut
- Common bottlenose dolphin
- Coreopsis
- Cross and Sword
- Dryophytes gratiosus
- Everglades
- Flag of Florida
- Florida (Where the Sawgrass Meets the Sky)
- Florida Citrus Archives
- Florida Cracker Horse
- Florida Cracker cattle
- Florida Railroad Museum
- Florida cracker
- Florida panther
- Florida, My Florida
- Gold Coast Railroad Museum
- Gopher tortoise
- Heliconius charithonia
- In God We Trust
- Key lime pie
- Largemouth bass
- List of Florida state symbols
- Loggerhead sea turtle
- Moonstone (gemstone)
- Myakka (soil)
- Northern mockingbird
- Old Folks at Home
- Orange (fruit)
- Orange blossom
- Orange juice
- Pascua Florida
- Roystonea regia
- Sabal palmetto
- Seal of Florida
- Shortcake
- Silver Spurs Rodeo
- Sunshine State
- Swampland in Florida
- Triplofusus giganteus
- West Indian manatee
- Western Union (schooner)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_cracker
Also known as Cracker Storytelling Festival, Florida crackers.
, Seven Years' War, Spain, Strawberry Girl, The Yearling, Thirteen Colonies, U.S. state, United States, University Press of Florida, Vaquero, Western United States, White Southerners, William Shakespeare, World Digital Library, Zora Neale Hurston, 1st Florida Special Cavalry Battalion.