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Come on now you know the southerners will not stop doing that. The "us vs them" thing is part of southern culture and if you dont live in a state that was part of the confederacy they will continue to call you a yankee. Even in parts of the north the term yankee is a regional badge that is used with pride. When I have been to the northeast, especially New England they call themselves yankees. There is even a magazine called Yankee that deals with New England life. Now I live in the upper midwest and we never call ourselves that. When I hear the term yankee I think of northeast people. Southerners call us that because we are in the north, but to me they are just using the word incorrectly. A yankee is a northeasterner, NOT someone from Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana etc. Weve never called ourselves yankees in the midwest, but like I said its part of southern culture so that is thier perogative. I take no offense to it, but in my opinion its just geographically incorrect. Yankees live in New England and the northeast, or they are a hated baseball team from out east. lol
Haha, since I'm a Red Sox fan, that's EXACTLY what I think of when I hear "Yankee". No Red Sox fan wants to be called a Yankee! In Connecticut, the only time I hear it is when someone asks "Are you a Yankee fan?" I don't usually hear people refer to each other as Yankees because they live in CT.
I find the term Yankee offensive only because Im a long suffering Mets fan
LOL. Yankees fan here. Not a hardcore one, but I do make sure there's always a Yankees cap in the back of my car so it can stare out the rear view windshield at whoever is behind me. DON'T MESS!
I hear the term Yankee in the UK, Ireland, Australia, etc. all the time to refer to Americans in general. When I hear someone say it in the US I always have to wonder if they know the war is over and we're one country now... This mainly has to do with the context people say it in, I wouldn't mind if it was only a regional identifier.
I'm still going with Montgomery AL. Despite the nice people and iced tea in the fridge, what a snooze that would be.
I wouldn't call Montgomery "relatively large" though; it has less than 500K in its metro so it's pretty much expected to not have a bunch of non-Southern transplants. Cities like Huntsville or Florida cities that size that do are the outliers.
Yes, I'm sure the millions of black and minority southerners are still quite bitter over the Confederacy losing.
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