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Looking up "cotton pickin" in Google ngram viewer, it appears to be mostly a product of the 1960s-1970s ruralsploitation fad: The Beverly Hillbillies, Hee Haw a
by bcoates 13y ago
Looking up "cotton pickin" in Google ngram viewer, it appears to be mostly a product of the 1960s-1970s ruralsploitation fad: The Beverly Hillbillies, Hee Haw and Foghorn Leghorn.
It's probably just an intentionally quaint pseudo-folk saying invented by someone in Burbank.
- coldtea 13y agoI don't think the Google ngram viewer is an appropriate tool for something that mostly belongs to the spoken language, and even more that of pour illiterate blacks and southerners.
- VLM 13y ago"It's probably just an intentionally quaint pseudo-folk saying invented by someone in Burbank." LOL no, assuming you young folks pretending not to understand are serious. As a hint take a look at the skin color and local social hierarchy position of the people picking cotton back when that was still done by hand, by property or former property, as they used to say. It was basically used in place of the "N-word" when it was just barely not socially acceptable to use the "N-word" in that situation.