What would you consider a Yankee? (living, plantation, authority)

[cacto]

Originally Posted by belmont22

The old proverb implies that a Vermonter is the ultimate Yankee, though I would imagine NH and Maine are hardly less Yankee:

To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.

What's all this about eating pancakes and pie for breakfast?

[Bydand]

Originally Posted by le roi

As a southerner, you travel north until you reach an even-numbered interstate, and everyone who lives north of that is a yankee.

Never would have thought 99% of Alabama, Mississippi and all of Georgia were "Yankee" states .

[wnewberry22]

I grew up in rural VA in a civil war town.......To us anyone north of Virginia (including Maryland despite being south of the M-D line) is a yankee.

[Andy]

Originally Posted by sav858

An old overpaid baseball player

fixed.

[Verseau]

Originally Posted by cacto

What's all this about eating pancakes and pie for breakfast?

I'm not sure where the OP got the pancakes thing from, but the "eating pie for breakfast" thing is an old stereotype about old New Englanders with English stock; traditional breakfast foods consisted of things like meat pies and beans, which nowadays feel a bit antiquated as breakfast foods in this country.

[wnewberry22]

As a southerner........I've always been told that a Yankee is anyone that lives north of the next horizontal interstate above you.

[KC_Sleuth]

I'm was born and raised in New York State and but I live in Missouri. I have had more than one person here (usually from the South) call me a Yankee, and I am proud to be called that.

Come to think of it...it was when I had to provide my social security number, for which the first digit is a "0", that this remark was first made to me here in Missouri...as in "0?, wow you really are a Yankee". The person obviously knew that social security numbers are distributed geographically.

[Southern man]

Originally Posted by belmont22

To a Southerner, it would imply any American who isn't a Southerner.

I didn't see this as a choice. However I would add "by birth"

[michigan83]

Originally Posted by le roi

As a southerner, you travel north until you reach an even-numbered interstate, and everyone who lives north of that is a yankee.

LOL... So for someone who lives in south Florida, everyone north of I-4 is a Yankee? The entire Deep South is filled with Yankees?

For me, that would mean that everyone who lives north of I-96 here in MI is a Yankee. I'm pretty sure that's the highest even-numbered interstate. So maybe the folks in Northern Michigan are Super Yankees.

[Derp-D-Derp]

I was told, "Y'all ain't Yankees, Y'all are New ENGLANDERS .... that's so much worse!"