Cracker Counties

Politico's Jonathan Martin Mocks Conservative Florida Voters as the 'Cracker Counties'

By Scott Whitlock | January 31, 2012 | 11:41

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Politico reporter Jonathan Martin on Tuesday mocked the  "cracker counties" of Florida's conservative Panhandle. Talking to Daily Rundown host Chuck Todd, he derided, "Chuck, a lot of the counties in the Panhandle, in north Florida, the cracker counties, if you will...more resemble Georgia and Alabama than they do Florida." [See video below. MP3 audio here.]