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Generally speaking, the further away your reference to New England is, the broader idea a Yankee encompasses. What would you consider a Yankee? To foreigners, all Americans are Yankees, while in New England, a Yankee refers only to a New Englander of English descent.
To a Southerner, it would imply any American who isn't a Southerner.
Generally speaking, the further away your reference to New England is, the broader idea a Yankee encompasses.
I think that's true. We did this on the Mass. forum a year or so ago. To me a Yankee is someone from Maine. (so I didn't vote.) Why would you put VT and not NH? Not Maine?
I think that's true. We did this on the Mass. forum a year or so ago. To me a Yankee is someone from Maine. (so I didn't vote.) Why would you put VT and not NH? Not Maine?
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.
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Generally speaking, the further away your reference to New England is, the broader idea a Yankee encompasses.
I agree. My personal definition of a Yankee is a resident of New England. I remember that my grandmother subscribed to Yankee Magazine, a publication that celebrated anything from that region.
Depends on where you are and what is the context its being used in. IN the south its anyone who lives north of the mason dixon line. The rest of the country as a whole considers yankees to be northeasterners or New England specifically. Overseas all Americans are yankees. It is one of the most confusing labels we have for people in this country, so many different meanings to the word. IMO it is most accurately used when you talk about New England specifically, that is the oldest most historically accurate use of the word. New Englanders are and always have been called yankees, and correct me if Im wrong but I think they (New Englanders) identify with the word as well.
When I first moved to Kentucky from Michigan, everybody, and I do mean everybody, called me a Yankee. When I visit Kentucky present day from Indianapolis, everyone still calls me a Yankee. Soooooooo everyone north of the Ohio River?
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