Another h/t for Crooks and Liars today, and there’s lots more cool links in that post, so check it out. Apparently, white Southerners are using the word “Canadians” as a euphemism for “blacks,” or whatever racial epithet you prefer, in an attempt to slur blacks without too many people knowing what they mean. It was on Boing Boing, so I naturally thought it was a joke, but it’s not.

I’m a bit disappointed: whitey’s gone all pussy on us.

In the U.S. south, is Canadian a new racial slur?

Last August, a blogger in Cincinnati going by the name CincyBlurg reported that a black friend from the southeastern U.S. had recently discovered that she was being called a Canadian. “She told me a story of when she was working in a shop in the South and she overheard some of her customers complaining that they were always waited on by a Canadian at that place. She didn’t understand what they were talking about and assumed they must be talking about someone else,” the blogger wrote.”After this happened several times with different patrons, she mentioned it to one of her co-workers. He told her that ‘Canadian’ was the new derogatory term that racist Southerners were using to describe persons they would have previously referred to [with the N-word.]“