I was raised in Texas and my mother always had a plastic flyswatter that she applied to my bottom from as young as I can remember, until about the age of about 11 or 12.
I always dreaded this implement, for two reasons. The first was that it wasn’t effective over pants. The first time I remember tasting this implement was when I was six. It was also the first spanking I remember from my mommy (not my first spanking, but prior to that, I was spanked by my father or stepdad).