Green’s Dictionary of Slang

blue gum n.

[ety. unknown]

1. (US) bootleg whisky.

Atlanta Letters n.p.: Moonshine, shine, blue gum, or stump water — home made whiskey, bootleg [DARE].

2. a person of mixed Indian, white and black ancestry.

[US] in DARE.
[US]L. Berney Gutshot Straight [ebook] ‘Shoot him, you dumb fucking blue-gum shine or — ’.