crackers

you may have hoped for well-landed aristocrats straight out of gone with the wind for your southern ancestors.  but sion and kitsie were not of the class of the lucky few.  i don't take it as a source of pride or shame, it just is. 

cracker:  a braggart, liar (1681). one full of conversation (scottish). a lie (1625). a name for the "poor whites" in the southern united states (1767).---the oxford universal dictionary of historical principles

other appellations mentioned in the preface to historian grady mcwhiney's cracker culture: piney-woods people, dirt-eaters, clay-eaters, tallow-faced gentry, sand-hillers, herdsmen, hog-drovers, mudsills, ragtag and bobtail, plain folk

a cracker home

from harper's new monthly magazine vol 8