Sentence:  Our summons was answered by its owner, a well-to-do, substantial, middle-aged planter, wearing the ordinary homespun of the district, but evidently of a station in life much above the common "<WSD>corn-crackers</WSD>" I had seen at the country meeting-house. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A lower-class white person in the southern US.