Who is Hoosier from Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America and what is their importance?

Hoosier comes up in a discussion of back country "rank ways," as part of a group of three: redneck, hoosier and cracker. This is a type of person. They are normally country folk and are often both proud and financially poor. As such this term can be used as either a compliment or as an insult. It can function as a name or a nickname and can refer to a specific individual or to an entire group of people.

The author explains that this name actually comes from North Britain and then spread westward across the Atlantic Ocean.