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Genesis of the Southern Cracker

Posted on 7 May, 201229 May, 2012 by Ann Hendon

by W.J. Cash (pictured) FOR years it has been the fashion with historians to explain the white cracker of the South as simply the product of degenerate blood-strains from Europe […]

Posted in Vintage Mercury Tagged American South, Confederacy, Dixie, Southern Mores, Southern states, W.J. Cash, Wilbur J. Cash 4 Comments

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