We just got our power back!!!! I was going to respond earluer but couldn't. There is not much more to tell, Susan, about the origin of the term. It all depends I suppose in who says it, to whom, and what the circumstances are. I suppose having lived in Florida since the age of six I could be considered a Cracker, but a real one must be a native and like 'Spaw says, mostly from North Florida and Southern Georgia. In and around the Okefenokee Swamp area.