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Call me a redneck, I'll call you a Yankee if you were born north of Kentucky and east of the Mississippi river.
In the south a
Yankee = someone living north of the Mason/Dixon line and east of the river.
A Damned Yankee = someone born north of the Mason/Dixon line, and east of the river, but moved to the south to stay.
A God Damned Yankee = someone born north of the Mason/Dixon line, east of the river, moved to the south, and married one of our own.
Basic southern knowledge
LOL I just saw this in a book about Bill Clinton. A NYT reporter was in Arkansas nosing around about Whitewater. A local asked him, 'boy do you know the difference between a Yankee and a damn Yankee.' 'No sir,' the NYT reporter replied. 'The damn Yankee stayed,' came the answer.
Personally I think that the difference between a southerner and a damn southerner is that the latter continues to vote D in spite of knowing that D's would ban your guns, redefine the word 'marriage,' and turn tail & run when some towel-heads shake their fist at us.
As someone in the US I call BS. A team name based off of a racial slur and a team name based off of a nonracial nick name are not the same...
Fighting Irish of Notre dame? That WAS def a slur against those of us of Irish family not too long ago. The difference is we see it as a joke in 2014 and "join the party" on St Patrick's day.
I think Yankee goes back to the revolution war in what British solders called our soldier. Yankee doodle dandy sound familiar. Lots of such names not intended to be nice such as names for German's in both wars; redneck etc. A slur is a slur; racial or cultural.
Well, being a Cherokee myself, I liked the name "Washington Redskins". I guess the Blacks are offended because they weren't called "Washington _________!!
Americans used to be too busy inventing things and accomplishing important things to worry about mere words. Now the loudest, whiniest and the least likely to ever accomplish anything are absolutely obsessed with words.
And they seem to be in charge these days. Just look at the plight of the country. Explains a lot.
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