Talk:Peckerwood

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"Peckerwood" was used by my father, a white southerner from Arkansas, as a pejorative for white males who acted silly, stupid, obnoxious or ignorant. He told me that it was because a woodpecker lives alone in the forest and has solitary vices and other bad habits. :) Halfelven 05:41, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

It's also used by Italians in Kansas City to refer to non-Italian whites. I have no documentation of this fact, unfortunately. --Raulpascal (talk) 22:45, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] I recommend splitting this article up

The "other uses" section should be a stand-alone disambiguation page. Comments? davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 04:33, 20 May 2008 (UTC)