Cracker Gothic is a term most often used to describe some historical homes in Florida that are otherwise considered under the Florida cracker architecture

Florida cracker architecture

Florida cracker architecture is a style of woodframe home used somewhat widely in the 19th century in Florida, United States, and still popular with some developers as a source of design themes...

 style. After analyzing the etymology

Etymology

Etymology is the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time.For languages with a long written history, etymologists make use of texts in these languages and texts about the languages to gather knowledge about how words were used during...

 of both words (cracker

Cracker

Cracker may refer to:* Cracker , a type of biscuit, usually salted or savory edible* Cracker , a mountain peak in Glacier National Park** Cracker , located in the Lewis Range, Glacier National Park in the U.S...

 and gothic

Gothic (term)

Gothic is the term originally used to describe things pertaining to the Gothic people and then reused in a variety of contexts.The Goths were traditionally thought to have originated in northern Europe and moved south towards the borders of the Roman Empire in the 2nd century...

) separately, when used together the context and meaning get very close to the general accepted definition of the term Southern Gothic

Southern Gothic

Southern Gothic is a subgenre of Gothic fiction unique to American literature that takes place exclusively in the American South. It resembles its parent genre in that it relies on supernatural, ironic, or unusual events to guide the plot...

, and even may be used interchangeably. However Cracker Gothic appears to adjudicate more specific elements in its definition content that separates it from its original Southern Gothic root.