My Dad lived in Austin in the 50s. He used to call poor, uneducated rural people "cedar choppers" and until today I had no idea where that came from, or that it

My Dad lived in Austin in the 50s. He used to call poor, uneducated rural people "cedar choppers" and until today I had no idea where that came from, or that it was an Austin thing. It seemed -- weird -- because I never heard Dad say a perjorative word about any other group of people.