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Just wondering who most Southerners consider a yankee. I don't consider myself one because 1(I'm from Nebraska and while we were a union territory in the Civil War, we didn't really send a lot of troops because we were small in population and in my opinions Yankees are from the Northeast 2) My ancestors didn't emigrate here until after the civil war for the most part. On my mom's side I have a few ancestors who fought in the revolutionary war and were ethnic germans who only married Germans and eventually a few ended up win Nebraska while a few stayed east while some moved to Utah with the Mormons. Most however emigrated to Nebraska from Germany and Denmark in the 1860's while on my dad's side they emigrated from the Czech Republic in the 1880's. So I have hardly any Yankee blood if any at all.
I've always thought yankee specfically applied to the north east?
That is what most southerners consider Yankees. The Northeast. Midwest and west are not Yankees.
In the United States, the term specifically refers to residents of New England. New England includes the states of Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.
During the Civil War, and even after the war came to an end, Yankee was a term used by Southerners to describe their rivals from the Union, or northern, side of the conflict. After the war, Yankee was once again mostly used to describe New Englanders.
That is what most southerners consider Yankees. The Northeast. Midwest and west are not Yankees.
In the United States, the term specifically refers to residents of New England. New England includes the states of Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.
During the Civil War, and even after the war came to an end, Yankee was a term used by Southerners to describe their rivals from the Union, or northern, side of the conflict. After the war, Yankee was once again mostly used to describe New Englanders.
Exactly. So I'm quite confused as to why people from Missouri and Nebraska are calling themselves Yankees?
I've always hated that term, even though I grew up in what is technically the South. It just belongs in another century, IMO. I always heard it used mainly in reference to people from the Northeast states, and very rarely in relation to the Midwest. Oddly enough, the only times I've really ever heard it applied to Midwesterners was in self-referencing by Midwesterners.
To people in many other countries though, we're all "Yankees". I've even been called a Yankee by Canadians and Brits.
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