Leave Dixie ALOOONE!
Posted on 11/03/2007 6:59:32 AM PDT by BnBlFlag
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Saturday, November 3, 2007 Pride & Prejudice: What does 'Yankee' mean to you?
Southerners reserve three insults for outlanders and assorted other pathetic creatures. They are:
"Bless your heart" "Y'all ain't from around here, are you?" "Yankee"
This blog is barely two weeks old, but it has already taken a few pot-shots at some sacred cows, such as "bait-and-wait" deer-hunting, litterbugs and low expectations in some local schools. The ensuing conversations have largely been delightfully rambunctious, but a few visitors have registered their disagreement by simply invoking the "Yankee" Doctrine: You ain't one of us, so shut the f*** up.
It's not always aimed at carpetbagging pantywaists from states that fought for the Union 132 years ago. Fourteen states were established after the Civil War, mostly in the West, which didn't have a dog in that fight, so there are tens of millions of Americans who never set foot on a Civil War battleground, period. And the last real Yankee has been dead for 51 years (Albert Woolson of Minnesota was a Union drummer boy who died in 1956.)
No, it seems that to a grumpy Southerner a "Yankee" is anyone who "ain't from around here." "Yankee" is never a term of endearment. That epithet is fired like a squirrel-shot at any outsider who doesn't leave his/her native sensibilities at the Mason-Dixon line ... or who doesn't agree with the insulter. ("You don't like grits? What a Yankee!")
That kind of xenophobia didn't hunt before the Civil War, it didn't wash in the civil rights era, and it's unlikely to work in the blogosphere. It might surprise those parochial Southerners who still wield the word like a revenooer's axe, but non-Southerners are rarely insulted by the term. They merely know you're trying to be insulting.
And for the record: The outlanders' habit of calling all Southerners "bubba" or "redneck" or "hillbilly" is equally xenophobic. I'm afraid the American tendency to coin a slur is infinite and knows no geographical bounds. And if you're lucky enough to be a non-Southerner living in the South, then you hear ALL of them!
So, Gator-Baiters, educate this Yankee from Wyoming who loves Texas. What exactly is a "Yankee"? Can you describe what you see in your mind when you use or hear the term? Whether you're a native Southerner or a lifelong Manhattanite, why do you think this apparently archaic term is still so widely used in the new millennium?
Posted by GATOR at 3:25 AM
Labels: epithets, insults, prejudice, Southeast Texas, Texas, Yankee
1 Gator-baiting comments: buddy said... I'm "not from around here", either, and when I arrived here nearly 30 years ago, got the 'damn yankee' comment from some of the locals. Annoying, but expected, considering some of the Gomers who live in the backwoods.
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the DAMNyankee minority of northerners (about 10-15% of all residents of the northern states, but REALLY LOUD-mouthed, loutish, filled with HATE & sanctimonious SELF-righteousness) are America's "finest bigots".
this has always been true. further, it is no more complicated than this:
we southerners want ALL of the DYs out of dixie, our churches,schools,businesses & lives FOREVER. don't go away mad;just GO AWAY & leave us alone.
free dixie,sw
"Really LOUD-mouthed"?
Check.
"Loutish"?
Check.
"Filled with Hate ..."
Mmm hmm.
"... & sanctimonious SELF-righteousness"
Bingo!
Congratulations, swattie, you ARE "America's finest bigot!"
don't go away mad;just GO AWAY & leave us alone.
How silly of me. I always assumed you were an old geezer. Now I realize you're just a twelve-year old girl, writing in her diary.
Leave Dixie ALOOONE!
Thank you for making my point gomer...
perhaps Judy _______ (our local "special needs teacher" & FReeper) is correct & you really are "mentally challenged". she says that i shouldn't ABUSE retarded people.
free dixie,sw
fwiw, anytime you start posting pictures & cartoons, everyone knows that you are "out of your depth" intellectually. of course you are "out of your depth" in a mud puddle.
PITY that you aren't aware of how you are perceived by others here.
free dixie,sw
keep saying to yourself: "i'm not smart enough to be here. i'm not smart enough to be here" until you get the message that you are just a DUMB joke to the rest of us.
you might also note that hardly anyone on the DY or rebel side will post TO you, except for people like me who do so to make sport of your IGNORANCE, arrogance & lack of brains.
but PLEASE keep spewing out your HATE-filled, prejudiced nonsense, as you damage the unionists here with every emission.
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
all you have to do is see what the northern states send to the congress to KNOW that "ya'll up there" are NOT made of as stern stuff as the older yanks used to be.
come the next conflict between north & south (should it come to that!), instead of the TOUGH "Billy Yanks" like the 20th Maine, ya'll will send us the "Barney Frank Guards" in lace-trimmed PINK uniforms, with high-heeled boots.(our side will die LAUGHING!)
free dixie,sw
Yep. It’s infinitely more satisfying than talking to a dirt-dumb POS like you...
ask around. you'll find out that you'll fit in really well as a member in good-standing of "the DAMNyankee coven of fools, haters, idiots, LEFTISTS, lunatics, BIGOTS,etc."
"N-S, the DAMNyankee Minister of Propaganda is the "leader of the coven". he''ll happily add another LOSER to "his team".
free dixie,sw
Hey, tell us about that Thanksgiving outside El Paso again.
LOL
That’s what it mean to me!
Unlike you dumb-azz, I’ve made friends both here at FR and in the “real world” from every part of the United States (including the south). They don’t prejudge based on where you were born - they choose to use their brain instead and evaluate ones character based on your words and your deeds.
I lived my formative years in the south. I thought of myself as much a southerner as any. I don’t make blanketed statements like; “stand watie is an imbecile, therefore ALL southerners must be imbeciles”. You do your neighbors and the cause of conservatism no service and you’d do well to STFU. It’s a wonder of tolerance that the admins allow you to stay.
Coming from the likes of a bigoted moron like you, I consider it a compliment and will wear the tag “DAMN YANKEE” proudly!
Your imaginary friend is right.
Say, swattie, if we are supposed to be so arrogant and bigoted and hate-filled, how come it's you who calls people "morons" and "retards"?
Has anybody ever called you such names (without extreme provocation)?
I guess it's that old Southern inferiority complex.
Somebody can simply be having a conversation with you, and you assume they're looking down on you and mocking you.
You insult somebody and you figure it doesn't count because they're stuck up Yankees.
Like when you assumed that the Northern kid just had to be a fault when a Southern kid beat him up.
What the facts are and how people actually behave don't really matter because you think you've got it all figured out.
It's sad. And so transparent.
instead, you are WELL-known as a FOOL & a SERIAL LIAR, whose "word of honor" is an OXYMORON.
PITY that you don't know how the smarter FReepers see you. fwiw, you are RUINED on FR & just a SICK JOKE.
free dixie,sw
have you asked N-S for your "secret squirrel number" & secret DY handshake, yet???? (fyi, you'll be one of the "brighter" DYs when you join the coven.)
fwiw, most of the brighter members have been banned "for cause", for their racist comments and/or for being a LEFTIST,an antisemite, a DIMocRAT, etc. (be sure & tell everyone how you feel about Asians,Blacks,Catholics, Jews, Latinos, Indians,Muslims, etc. so we'll all know what sort of hater you are. - you won't "fit in with" the other "coven members" unless you are a HATER of other groups than southerners.)
free dixie,sw
laughing AT you is easier (and more fun) than trying to educate a "stone bigot". besides, you are DAMAGING the unionists (and converting southerners into SOUTHRONS) with every DUMB-bunny post that you spew out onto the forum, so please "rant on"! (you, TOO, serve the "True Cause", though UNknowingly.)
free dixie,sw
The only bigot I’ve seen on any of the north v. south threads is you waddly.
“Dumb drunk & Dhimmicrat is no way to go through life son”
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