"we southerners want ALL of the DYs out of dixie, our churches,schools,businesses & lives FOREVER!!!!!!"
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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you'll fit in really well with the DUNCES & weirdos of "the DAMNyankee coven". got your "secret squirrel number" yet???
free dixie,sw
don't you get tired of being thought to be TOTALLY dishonest and/or IGNORANT by most every FR reader of these threads????
btw, WHEN are you going to get around to providing everyone PROOF of:
WHO you "used to be on FR",
WHY you got yourself banned forever &
WHEN you will apologize to everyone & resign from the forum.
i, otoh, want you around to ridicule/make sport of & get you to "mouth off", thus damaging the "unionist cause".
free dixie,sw
fyi, the TWO of "your buddies" of "the DY coven" were pointed out to everyone (near where i was standing) at the rally. YEP, i was there & (like several other FReepers) saw them & were HUMILIATED by their BEING in that "parade" of WEIRDOS, ANTI-Semites, idiots & "peace people".
face it, "x", the current members of the coven are mainly NOT conservatives;instead they are statists/fascists,"lincoln worshipers",radical REVISIONISTS,fruitcakes,DIMocRATS, frauds,nitwits,LEFTISTS, freaks,"useful idiots" & stone bigots.
note to ALL: fwiw, if the current "DY coven members in good-standing" are the best that the unionists can field against us southrons, the unionists are "in a pickle" for help.
free dixie,sw
A) Cortez landed in Mexico in 1519
B) The PIlgrims landed in 1620
C) The Spanish were celebrating Thanksgiving outside El Paso on or before 1519
It has to be one of them. (Hint: Two of them can be readily confirmed from multiple sources. One can not.)
Name them. You pull this one out after every rally, but you never name names.
You already asked that question Damn Yankee Stan...
"we southerners want ALL of the DYs out of dixie, our churches,schools,businesses & lives FOREVER!!!!!!"
laughing AT you, BIGOT.
free dixie,sw
Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe Dimaggio, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Bobby Richardson, the Bronx and having a good time at the stadium with my pals when I was a youngster.
i see you've returned from your "vacation"
PITY that you didn't stay gone, as NOBODY has missed your SILLY, off-point, DUMB-bunny comments & STUPID cartoons.
free diie,sw
i see you've returned from your "vacation"
PITY that you didnn't stay gone, as NOBODY has missed your SILLY, off-point, DUMB-bunny comments & STUPID cartoons.
free dixie,sw
laughing AT you.
free dixie,sw
CPT Henry Wirz MD, late of the MC,PACSA &
Mrs. Mary Surratt.
Both are buried at Mt Olivet Roman Catholic Cemetery at 1300 Bladensburg Rd NE, Washington,DC.
As usual, their lives/deeds/martyrdom was remembered at Noon on the Saturday nearest Nov 10th,with a Bible reading, prayers & the laying of red & white flowers upon their earthly resting places.
Both were hanged by the vengeful DAMNyankee government, by dishonorable men who were perfectly aware that they were murdering two totally INNOCENT people.
Mrs Surratt was hanged primarily because her son was NOT in the hands of the DAMNyankees & because she owned a boarding house, where John Wilkes Booth had once stayed.
CPT Henry Wirz, according to the serving Judge Advocate General of the US Army, was convicted & executed:
1. by an unlawful military tribunal,
2. which had NO authority whatever over any civilian (CPT Wirz had been a civilian for over 3 months, when arrested.),
3.upon perjured testimony, which was known by the members of "the court" at the time of his "trial",to be false,
4. of crimes that he neither committed nor was present, such that he could have committed, any crime charged against him,
5. was UNLAWFULLY sentenced to death by hanging, which was in itself an UNLAWFUL punishment for the crimes with which he stood accused,
6. was denied the solace of a priest of the Roman Catholic faith because Secretary Stanton was quoted as saying that Wirz "burns already in Hell",
7. was INTENTIONALLY "hauled up" rather than being dropped from the gallows, so that he would strangle slowly to death &
8. was denied a funeral (& his widow was not allowed to claim his body for a Catholic mass & burial) & (to quote a Union officer) "dumped without ceremony into an hole near the gallows". (CPT Wirz's body was later exhumed & properly interred at its present site.)
And anyone wonders WHY we Southrons say that the "merry band of thieves & war criminals surrounding lincoln" were nothing more than GARBAGE in semi-human form???
free dixie,sw
I heard it was you and Clot 54.
What were you doing there, anyway?
Funny your imaginary pals knew exactly what those two looked like, swats.
Do you guys all live together in the same building or something?
Anyway, my informants saw you were at a John Kerry rally ...
CPT Henry Wirz MD, late of the MC,PACSA & Mrs. Mary Surratt.
Both are buried at Mt Olivet Roman Catholic Cemetery at 1300 Bladensburg Rd NE, Washington,DC.
As usual, their lives/deeds/martyrdom was remembered at Noon on the Saturday nearest Nov 10th,with a Bible reading, prayers & the laying of red & white flowers upon their earthly resting places.
swattie, I never realized what a swine you are until today.
You're not a loveable kook anymore, but a very disturbed creature.
the TRUTH is that you are an EMBARRASSMENT & a source of HUMILIATION to EVERY FReeper, who is "blessed with" seeing the IGNORANT, pointless bilge that you spew out onto the forum, like so much liquefied manure.
why not dance out the door to DU, holding your buddies "bubba, the LIAR" & "Mr SPIN, the bigot" by the hand??? (you 3 will be STARS over there as they LIKE bigots/"useful idiots"/liars & anyone who is a HATER.)
your DUMB-bunny questions have been answered at least TWICE on other threads, thus i am NOT inclined to spend time on CONFEDERATE MARTYRS DAY answering the questions of a FOOL. (looking for those WBTS threads will give you something worthwhile to do, while you sit contemplating your navel.)
laughing AT you.(fwiw, i'm coming to the conclusion that Judy ________ may be correct about you.= perhaps i shouldn't abuse a "mentally challenged person".)
free dixie,sw
You've always made up facts but now you're making up holidays?
everyone here on these threads has ALWAYS known that you are a fool, a bigot, a source of shame to all decent/knowledgeable FReepers, a "useful idiot" and a detestable swine.
fwiw, NOBODY in "the rebel camp" CARES what ANY of you DAMNyankee BIGOTS thinks/doesn't think. instead, you just make us "good 'ole rebs" nauseous by being here.
free dixie,sw
further,you used to be SMARTER (& frequently wittier) than you have been of late.
see, i was correct = "lie down with dogs & get up with fleas". the ignorance/arrogance/stupidity & general all around HATEFULNESS/BIGOTRY of the rest of "the coven" is "rubbing off on" you. soon, you'll be as big a DUNCE as the rest of the group is.
finally, (just in case you are interested in the TRUTH for once) Confederate Martyrs Day was proclaimed on November 10, 1979 by the Brigade of the District of Columbia, MD Division, of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, when we had a "full-dress" Confederate funeral (complete with artillery fire) for CPT Wirz. further The Washington Times,The Confederate Veteran magazine, The Southern Partisan magazine, WMAL & WBAL AM radio (& numerous other media outlets) covered the funeral, so it certainly was NO secret from anyone in the DC Metro area.
free dixie,sw
then say, "i'm SORRY that i'm a FOOL & a BIGOT" & LEAVE FR forever.
free dixie,sw
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