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re: Civil War nicknames for SEC states..
Posted on 6/25/12 at 9:37 am to theGarnetWay
Posted on 6/25/12 at 9:37 am to theGarnetWay
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I've actually heard the term Sandlappers before (but refered to SCers not MSers)
It's like some things never change. Sand Lapper is referred to as people farming the worst possible lands, usually the poorest of the poor type farmers. They couldn't afford fertile ground so they had to settle for the land nobody else wanted which was typically sandy conditions. At least that was what my grandfather explained to me a long time ago when I asked what was a sand lapper. Whether that's correct or not, I don't know. But it makes a little more sense now I see on that list.
It's almost akin to being called a redneck or hillbilly and not related just to one particular state.
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Posted on 6/25/12 at 9:47 am to Cdawg
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Sand Lapper is referred to as people farming the worst possible lands, usually the poorest of the poor type farmers
in SC, Sandlapper was supposedly dubbed to us by the British during the Revolutionary War that claimed that we crawled along the sand waiting to make a guerilla attack rather than stand up I fight face to face where they had better numbers. George Washington also referred to us as the Sandlappers that were intramental is winning the war.. we called the farmers working the poor land "clay eaters".
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