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No it’s not. It’s a term for Florida cowboys/ranchers/etc. it’s still used today in the middle of the state proudly.

I'm not sure what you're arguing but...

Florida crackers were colonial-era British and American pioneer settlers and their descendants in what is now the U.S. state of Florida. The first of these arrived in 1763 after Spain traded Florida to Great Britain following the latter's victory over France in the Seven Years' War.[1]

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By the 1760s, the ruling classes, both in Britain and in the American colonies, applied the term "cracker" to Scots-Irish and English American settlers of the remote southern back country, as noted in a letter to the Earl of Dartmouth: "I should explain to your Lordship what is meant by Crackers; a name they have got from being great boasters; they are a lawless set of rascalls on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia, who often change their places of abode."[2] The word was later associated with the cowboys of Georgia and Florida, many of them descendants of those early frontiersmen who had migrated South. Also used by Florida cowboys, as with picture of Florida cracker Bone Mizell.

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Among some Floridians, the term is used as a proud or jocular self-description. Since the huge influx of new residents into Florida in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, from the northern parts of the United States and from Mexico and Latin America, the term "Florida Cracker" is used informally by some Floridians to indicate that their families have lived in the state for many generations.

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I have to imagine BYU has one of the most expansive alumni bases in the country. Main university for an entire religion.
The vast majority of Mormons neither drink nor cuss, I imagine they are one of the least obnoxious fanbases in the country. If they are good guests, let's be good hosts, let's not act like lizards and dwags.
 
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