Tuckahoe was a term use during the 18th and 19th centuries to describe a cultural group, i.e. by the low-country Virginia/Carolina slave-owning plantation owners with all of their economic, political, social, and ethnic traits, in contrast to the “cohee” cultural group. The cohee were typically non-Anglican, poor, non-slave-owning, hard-scrabble independent farmers moving into or through the hills and mountainous regions of Virginia and both Carolinas. Both “tuckahoe” and “cohee” were often used as terms of disparagement and derision by the opposing group.