re: Civil War nicknames for SEC states..

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Sand Lapper is referred to as people farming the worst possible lands, usually the poorest of the poor type farmers

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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".