Macaca Anyone? Politico Refers to Florida 'Cracker' Counties

"THE RUSH LIMBAUGH SHOW," 1/31/12

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RUSH: This morning on The Daily Rundown on MSNBC, Jonathan Martin, who wrote that piece intimidating what I didn't say meant.  "Limbaugh didn't say it, but clearly..." da-da-da.  He sent me an e-mail yesterday asking, "Okay, who's the most important conservative in Florida voting for?" I wouldn't tell him, so he attempted to translate what I didn't say.  He was on MSNBC this morning, had a discussion about the Florida primary and said...

MARTIN:  I think the other reason why north Florida is going to be fascinating to watch tonight is because it's going to give us a sense of what's ahead in March, when this primary does move to the deep south states. As you know, Chuck, a lot of those counties in the panhandle, in north Florida, the "cracker counties" more resemble Georgia and Alabama than they do Florida. So, it's going to be interesting to see if Romney can really show some signs of strength in and around places like Pensacola, Panama City, Tallahassee and Jacksonville.

RUSH:  Okay, cracker counties.  Now, I remember a guy named George Allen who the Washington Post ran out of politics because he called a provocateur from the enemy camp at a press conference "Macaca," which, if you go to the Oxford English dictionary you cannot find Macaca.  It ain't there.  Nobody knows what it means, so it was free to be defined by the left, and they defined it as a racial slur, and George Allen was histoire.  But "cracker" is in the Oxford English dictionary, and the way it's defined is this:  "A contemptuous name given in southern States of N. America to the poor whites; whence, familiarly, to the native whites of Georgia and Florida."