Low income housing that tends to resemble shacks. They are usually inhabited by members of the african american community. of course people of other races can live in these types of houses but the comedy value of the phrase relies on stereotypes. it is to be used by those who are genuinely racist or find humor in the concept of racist but are not racist themselves.
Person 1: you know i went downtown last night to see some show, actually i was kind of dragged to it.
Person 2: oh what was it?
Person 1: fuck thats what i was tryin figure out, it wasnt even good. on the way back i was worried, we drove through a neighborhood of nigger shacks.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)