Peckerwood

Peckerwood gang network
Peckerwood gang network
Prison gangs:; 211 Crew (Co, Tx); Aryan Brotherhood (Ca; statewide, Az, Al, Ga, La, Fl); Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (Tx; Nm, Ok); Aryan Circle (Tx); European Kindred (Or); Nazi Lowriders (Ca; Az, Nv, Tx); Peckerwood street gangs:; European Kindred (Or); Nazi Lowriders (Ca, Tx); Public Enemy No. 1 (Ca);

Peckerwood is a US racial epithet used against white people, especially poor rural whites. Originally an ethnic slur, the term has been reclaimed by a subculture related to prison gangs and outlaw motorcycle clubs. The term was in use as an inversion of woodpecker in the Southern United States by the 1830s; it is also with the sense referring to white people documented from the 1850s. African-American folklore in the 1920s contrasted the white "peckerwood" bird with the African-American blackbird. The word became a common term in Jive.