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.
November 3, 2007 8:07 AM Post a Comment
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And you are what?
The camp commandant?
Setting yourself up to be the Henry Wirtz of the New South?
And why can't you ever speak for yourself? Who elected you spokesperson?
instead, you just spew evermore HATE-filled,ignorant,DUMB-bunny bilge onto the forum & make YOURSELF look FOOLISH. (it's really no more complicated than that.)
fwiw, FEW men now living are WORTHY to fill the boots of CPT Wirz. i am not one of those few.
he was an INNOCENT,HONORABLE DECENT & God-fearing gentleman, despite the LIES spread about on him by LESSER creatures (like YOU for example). PITY, that you aren't self-aware enough to understand that relatively simple TRUTH.
free dixie,sw
He was a convicted murderer and war criminal.
I suspect that Mr. Stan Wabblie is using a pirated version of the Liberal Gibberish Generator. Note that it is version 1.2 - you can tell because it has such a limited repertoire...;’}
1. being AVAILABLE to the RADICALS of the unionist vengeful fringe element, who wanted to hang SOMEBODY/ANYBODY (GEN Winder had died of natural causes by the time the war ended.),whether they were guilty or innocent,
2. being Roman Catholic at a time when Roman Catholicism was HATED/feared by many in this country,
3.being a Swiss national & to quote a member of the "trail board" because he "talked funny",
4.refusing to testify FALSELY against President Davis & GEN Lee on the north's "trumped-up" charges &
5. refusing to be "sorry" for crimes he never committed.
as i said earlier, even the serving JAGUSA admitted that what was done to him was in itself patently UNJUST, UNLAWFUL, DISHONORABLE & IMMORAL.(you & i have previously discussed the JAGUSA's comments, so you are being DECEITFUL, as usual.)
free dixie,sw
your "contributions" to this thread have been insignificant.
laughing AT you.
free dixie,sw
Actually, Mr. DAMN YANKEE Stan Wabblie, my “contributions” are only of subjective value. I’ve had fun, so they hold value to me.
Obviously you “care” or you wouldn’t respond.
“laughing AT you.”
I’m glad you’re such a happy half-wit!
But here's an online gibberish generator.
If you like you can use it to generate your own swattyisms.
fwiw, FEW men not one of CPT Wirz. i am not on him by LESSER cread, you are complicated those forum & God-fearing aren't self-aware enough too DUMB too DUMB-bunny bilge one of than than the for example TRUTH.
face it, BOOB, you are WORTHY to that really simple). PITY, that really not one of CPT Wirz. i am no more WORTHY to understand those forum & make YOURSELF look FOOLISH.
PITY, that relatively now living are enough to that you just self-aware WORTHY to fill that you just self-aware enough too DUMB-bunny bilge one of CPT Wirz. i am now living gentleman, despite the LIES spew evermore comple). PITY, than INNOCENT & make YOURSELF look FOOLISH. (it's read about on him by LESSER cread about onto the LIES spread about onto the forum & make YOU for example). PITY, the was an INNOCENT & make YOURSELF look FOOLISH. (it's read, you are HATE-fill that relatively simple).
fwiw, FEW men now living are enough to be here.
face it, BOOB, you're that reatures (like YOU forum & make YOU forum & make YOU forum & God-fearing gentleman, despite to understand that relatively simple). PITY, than that.)
fwiw, FEW men not onto that relatively no more the few.
fwiw, FEW men not one on him by LESSER cread about on him by LESSER cread, you just spew evermore complicated the boots of that.)
Wow! It's almost starting to make sense!
laughing AT your "contributions" to thread CARES what you that you thread have been insignificant.
free dixie,sw
fyi, i suspect this thing AT you thread hardly anybody) on think/don't thread CARES what you think/don't thread hardly anybody) on thread have been insignificant.
free dixie,sw
fyi, i suspect that your "contributions" to thing AT you.
you this that hardly anybody (and perhaps, nobody) on this this think/don't this think.
Nope. you’re close, but I think you need to turn up the Bigot Gain control a notch to capture the true DAMN YANKEE Stan Wabblie...
as for responding to you, i ENJOY "blood sports" (that's one of my great legion of faults.). ABUSING DY-fools,bigots, nitwits & SELF-important dunces is fun for me. (this means YOU.)
PLEASE "rant on". you, too (unwittingly), serve the TRUE CAUSE of dixie LIBERTY.
free dixie,sw
the more i learn about DYs like you, the better i like scorpions, slugs, serpents & spiders.
free dixie,sw
fyi, i'm at least the most OBVIOUS (if not the most COMMITTED) of the Southrons, who is currently on FR.
as for how does taunting the village idiot -----" ===> easy. because "the village idiot" then makes even more STUPID, racist,prejudiced, ignorant, statements, which:
1. makes the DYs look MORE prejudiced/ignorant/MEAN-spirited/dumb than they may actually be &
2. it converts "neutral" southerners to SOUTHRONS (which is a quite different sort of person).
free dixie,sw
To begin with Yankees don’t come from Wyoming. A person from Wyoming is a Westerner and just as likely to be looked down on by a Yankee as someone from Alabama. Yankees are the people usually from the NE that think the rest of us live in flyover country.
fwiw,you are entitled to hold ANY opinion,regardless of how SILLY it may be. it's called "freedom of expression", which the DYs of DAMNyankeeland despise. (DYs generally "piteously cry for" censorship of ANY idea that disagrees with their inbred prejudices. "political correctness" did NOT come from dixie's universities, but rather from the "poison ivy league" & LEFT coast "elete screwls of higher lernin" =chuckle.)
free dixie,sw
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