[maineguy8888]

Originally Posted by handy99

Tampa airport certainly wasn't built with Cracker Money......and, yes, Cracker is a term that natives use for themselves and doesn't mean anything bad. It's just that Crackers (native Floridians, often rural or semi-rural) are not world travelers that have brought modernity and world-class airlines and facilities to Florida.

I hope that sticker is on a pre-1990 car because that may be when it was relevant - although even 95 may not have been finished yet at that time.

I once took a train from Nashville to Miami - 24 hours.

There were actually some times many years back when I semi-enjoyed the ride to Florida. But the last times I did this I was mired in Traffic from about GA to Tampa...and then again when heading to the east coast. There was even serious traffic through NC. I had these old memories about cruising down the road with no cars in front, back or to the side of me. Now it's like a full time rush hour on many of those sections of 95. Only parts of SC are semi-reasonable in terms of less traffic.

Cutting right across from Daytona to Wakulla last March, we didn't gert much traffic at all. (Of course, that's not the popular part of Florida....).

[Hammocks Bum]

I hope that sticker is on a pre-1990 car because that may be when it was relevant - although even 95 may not have been finished yet at that time.

They remain good sellers in South Florida and the South East Coast even now in 2018

[CountryLawyer32]

Originally Posted by maineguy8888

Cutting right across from Daytona to Wakulla last March, we didn't gert much traffic at all. (Of course, that's not the popular part of Florida....).

Floridans, Native-born Generational Floridans refer to themselves as Florida Crackers most times, they could be a Florida Cracker like Governor Lawton Chiles, or they could be the guy that pumps your gas. They may never have grinded cane or herded cattle but they are Florida Crackers. Again you are another Yankee running their mouth without knowing a lick about what your talking about. Leave the Florida history to REAL FLORIDANS and if your Damn Yankee keep your mouth shut and say please and thank you and you might not get told where to go. I've been everywhere around this world, hold two Doctoral Degrees from Southern Ivys and I can tell you this...there is no other species worse than a Northerner from the United States. I'd rather break bread with a Frenchman or sit down to a glass of wine with someone from India than even lay eyes on a dirty filthy money grubbing, lying, cheating, thieving Northern American Yankee. You have destroyed my state and its culture with your insatiable appetite for material wealth and cultural genocide. Your entire kind sickens me and you are all the same at your core, self-serving, materialistic, arrogant, obnoxious and delusional.

[cholo57]

Originally Posted by Southern man

Heck, let me be the first to say “Thank You”, now, feel better?

Rules For Visiting Yankees From the Southern Tourism Bureau:
1. Don’t order pasta primavera at Waffle House. It’s just a diner. They serve breakfast 24 hours a day. Let them cook something they know. If you confuse them, they’ll kick your ***.
2. Don’t laugh at our Southern names (Merleen, Bodie, Ovine, Luther Ray, Tammy Lynn, Darla Beth, Inez, Billy Joe, Sissy, Clovis, etc.). Or we will just HAVE to kick your ***.
3. Don’t order a bottle of pop or a can of soda down here. Down here it’s called Coke. Nobody gives a flying damn whether it’s Pepsi, RC, Dr. Pepper, 7 Up or whatever-it’s still a Coke. Accept it. Doing otherwise can lead to an *** kicking.
4. We know our heritage. Most of us are more literate than you (e.g., Welty, Williams, Faulkner). We are also better educated and generally a lot nicer. Don’t refer to us as a bunch of hillbillies, or we’ll kick your ***.
5. We have plenty of business sense (e.g., Fred Smith of FedEx, Turner Broadcasting, MCI WorldCom, MTV, Netscape). Naturally, we do sometimes, have small lapses in judgment (e.g., Carter, Clinton). We don’t care if you think we are dumb. We are not dumb enough to let someone move to our state in order to run for the Senate. If someone tried to do that, we would kick their ***.
6. Don’t laugh at our Civil War monuments. If Lee had listened to Longstreet and flanked Meade at Gettysburg instead of sending Pickett up the middle, you’d be paying taxes to Richmond instead of Washington. If you visit Stone Mountain and complain about the carving, we’ll kick your ***.
7. We are fully aware of how high the humidity is, so shut the hell up. Just spend your money and get the hell out of here, or we’ll kick your ***.

8. Don’t order wheat toast at Cracker Barrel. Everyone will instantly know that you’re a Yankee. Eat your biscuits like God intended-with gravy. And don’t put sugar on your grits, or we’ll kick your ***.
9. Don’t fake a Southern accent. This will incite a riot, and you will get your *** kicked.
10. Don’t talk about how much better things are at home because we know better. Many of us have visited Northern cesspools like Detroit, Chicago, and DC, and we have the scars to prove it. If you don’t like it here, Delta is ready when you are. Move your *** on home before it gets kicked.
11. Yes, we know how to speak proper English. We talk this way because we don’t want to sound like you. We don’t care if you don’t understand what we are saying. All other Southerners understand what we are saying, and that’s all that matters. Now, go away and leave us alone, or we’ll kick your ***.
12. Don’t complain that the South is dirty and polluted. None of OUR lakes or rivers have caught fire recently. If you whine about OUR scenic beauty, we’ll kick your *** all the way back to Boston Harbor.
13. Don’t ridicule our Southern manners. We say sir and ma’am. We hold doors open for others. We offer our seats to old folks because such things are expected of civilized people. Behave yourselves around our sweet little gray-haired grandmothers or they’ll kick some manners into your *** just like they did ours.
14. So you think we’re quaint or losers because most of us live in the countryside? That’s because we have enough sense to not live in filthy, smelly, crime-infested cesspools like New York or Baltimore. Make fun of our fresh air, and we’ll kick your ***.
15. Last, but not least, DO NOT DARE to come down here and tell us how to barbecue. This will get your *** shot (right after it is kicked). You’re lucky we let you come down here at all. Criticize our barbecue, and you will go home in a pine box. Minus your ***.

+1.

[beach43ofus]

Originally Posted by CountryLawyer32

Floridans, Native-born Generational Floridans refer to themselves as Florida Crackers most times, they could be a Florida Cracker like Governor Lawton Chiles, or they could be the guy that pumps your gas. They may never have grinded cane or herded cattle but they are Florida Crackers. Again you are another Yankee running their mouth without knowing a lick about what your talking about. Leave the Florida history to REAL FLORIDANS and if your Damn Yankee keep your mouth shut and say please and thank you and you might not get told where to go. I've been everywhere around this world, hold two Doctoral Degrees from Southern Ivys and I can tell you this...there is no other species worse than a Northerner from the United States. I'd rather break bread with a Frenchman or sit down to a glass of wine with someone from India than even lay eyes on a dirty filthy money grubbing, lying, cheating, thieving Northern American Yankee. You have destroyed my state and its culture with your insatiable appetite for material wealth and cultural genocide. Your entire kind sickens me and you are all the same at your core, self-serving, materialistic, arrogant, obnoxious and delusional.

If I moved here from Georgia, would you break bread with me?

The only thing you said I disagree with is about the "guy pumping your gas". I have never seen that down here in Florida, just when visiting relatives up in New Jersey.

[Corrie22]

I just remember what my Mom always told me...

Thank God they are what they are....you can look twice as good...with half the effort

...Mom was a Florida Cracker..from a long line of Crackers

[JMatl]

Originally Posted by Southern man

Heck, let me be the first to say “Thank You”, now, feel better?

Rules For Visiting Yankees From the Southern Tourism Bureau:
1. Don’t order pasta primavera at Waffle House. It’s just a diner. They serve breakfast 24 hours a day. Let them cook something they know. If you confuse them, they’ll kick your ***.
2. Don’t laugh at our Southern names (Merleen, Bodie, Ovine, Luther Ray, Tammy Lynn, Darla Beth, Inez, Billy Joe, Sissy, Clovis, etc.). Or we will just HAVE to kick your ***.
3. Don’t order a bottle of pop or a can of soda down here. Down here it’s called Coke. Nobody gives a flying damn whether it’s Pepsi, RC, Dr. Pepper, 7 Up or whatever-it’s still a Coke. Accept it. Doing otherwise can lead to an *** kicking.
4. We know our heritage. Most of us are more literate than you (e.g., Welty, Williams, Faulkner). We are also better educated and generally a lot nicer. Don’t refer to us as a bunch of hillbillies, or we’ll kick your ***.
5. We have plenty of business sense (e.g., Fred Smith of FedEx, Turner Broadcasting, MCI WorldCom, MTV, Netscape). Naturally, we do sometimes, have small lapses in judgment (e.g., Carter, Clinton). We don’t care if you think we are dumb. We are not dumb enough to let someone move to our state in order to run for the Senate. If someone tried to do that, we would kick their ***.
6. Don’t laugh at our Civil War monuments. If Lee had listened to Longstreet and flanked Meade at Gettysburg instead of sending Pickett up the middle, you’d be paying taxes to Richmond instead of Washington. If you visit Stone Mountain and complain about the carving, we’ll kick your ***.
7. We are fully aware of how high the humidity is, so shut the hell up. Just spend your money and get the hell out of here, or we’ll kick your ***.

8. Don’t order wheat toast at Cracker Barrel. Everyone will instantly know that you’re a Yankee. Eat your biscuits like God intended-with gravy. And don’t put sugar on your grits, or we’ll kick your ***.
9. Don’t fake a Southern accent. This will incite a riot, and you will get your *** kicked.
10. Don’t talk about how much better things are at home because we know better. Many of us have visited Northern cesspools like Detroit, Chicago, and DC, and we have the scars to prove it. If you don’t like it here, Delta is ready when you are. Move your *** on home before it gets kicked.
11. Yes, we know how to speak proper English. We talk this way because we don’t want to sound like you. We don’t care if you don’t understand what we are saying. All other Southerners understand what we are saying, and that’s all that matters. Now, go away and leave us alone, or we’ll kick your ***.
12. Don’t complain that the South is dirty and polluted. None of OUR lakes or rivers have caught fire recently. If you whine about OUR scenic beauty, we’ll kick your *** all the way back to Boston Harbor.
13. Don’t ridicule our Southern manners. We say sir and ma’am. We hold doors open for others. We offer our seats to old folks because such things are expected of civilized people. Behave yourselves around our sweet little gray-haired grandmothers or they’ll kick some manners into your *** just like they did ours.
14. So you think we’re quaint or losers because most of us live in the countryside? That’s because we have enough sense to not live in filthy, smelly, crime-infested cesspools like New York or Baltimore. Make fun of our fresh air, and we’ll kick your ***.
15. Last, but not least, DO NOT DARE to come down here and tell us how to barbecue. This will get your *** shot (right after it is kicked). You’re lucky we let you come down here at all. Criticize our barbecue, and you will go home in a pine box. Minus your ***.

LOL!!! Thanks for making me spray my coffee all over the computer screen!

[Southern man]

Originally Posted by JMatl

LOL!!! Thanks for making me spray my coffee all over the computer screen!

I take no credit for the rules. I saw it in an issue of The Mullet Wrapper, which is a local flyer published in Gulf Shores, Ala. But , there is an element of truth in the rules.

[Corrie22]

Originally Posted by Southern man

I take no credit for the rules. I saw it in an issue of The Mullet Wrapper, which is a local flyer published in Gulf Shores, Ala. But , there is an element of truth in the rules.

..and thank you for remembering to post it.....it's hysterical...