No, not copyrighted. It's sort of a takeoff on calling lovely young ladies "eye candy."

I've also noticed the tendency for people in the antebellum South to emigrate to regions that had similar characteristics of their former homes. In northern Arkansas, for example, you find a very high percentage of people from eastern Tennessee; while in southern Arkansas you find a high percentage of people from Alabama and Mississippi.

Maybe it due partly due to the fact that they knew how to farm the land they left, so they looked for similar land in Arkansas.

I am still intrigued by the independence of thought that seemed to characterize the people who lived in the uplands. Was it because of the relative isolation? Or because only self-reliant cusses could get crops to grow in rocks?