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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Tell her she's a coward for not saying it to my face, if she exists.
She's married to Col. Heinrich Wirtz. </sarcasm>
So is this the same one who wrote to you in #191 of this thread? It's so hard to keep your correspondents straight when they all sound like you.
and just for the record, she/i are not the only ones who believe NOTHING you say. you are well-known here as a SERIAL LIAR.
laughing AT you.
free dixie,sw
even "duckie", who well understands most of my "fixation on a free dixie" (and knows me better than anyone living), says that she can't believe that "you lower yourself" (myself), to correspond with "that creature".)
laughing AT you.
free dixie,sw
your REPUTATION is that of a LIAR & a BIGOT;thus, you are RUINED forever.
laughing AT you, LIAR.
free dixie,sw
So you don’t believe the the Library of Congress identifies that photo as Wirz’s hanging? You don’t believe that Jefferson Davis reprints the letter from Schade identifying Boyle as Wirz’s confessor?
More like It’s so hard to keep your correspondents straight when they keep appearing out of thin air (for apparitions, they sure seem to be curmudgeonly ;’}
your REPUTATION is that of a SERIAL LIAR/BIGOT/FOOL. (don't you CARE that you are constantly laughed AT & ridiculed "behind your back"??? only "x", the DUMB-bunny, is thought to be LESS worth reading.)
laughing AT you.
free dixie,sw
frankly, i think you just may be smarter than to believe ANYTHING he says (though i've overestimated the IQ/commonsense of many a DY here).
free dixie,sw
Why shouldn’t I believe him - he provides compelling evidence. If you have better then please present it...
fyi, i've dealt with "bubba, the LIAR" for so long that i simply RIDICULE him for his PAST lies & don't bother (absent POSITIVE proof to the contrary) to waste my time on his "sources". (that's what happens to a FReeper when the "public" figures out that the "poster" is a KNOWING liar & his/her "word of honor" is a JOKE!)
IF you have a LOT of time to waste, may i suggest that YOU go read his "documentation" & see whether his CURRENT lies are those of "commission" and/or "omission".
free dixie,sw
Tell him about “Yachts Against Subs”
the frank truth is that you have contributed nothing but VULGARITY, arrogance & ignorance to these threads since your arrival.
PITY, as you initially SEEMED smarter than the average yank.
btw, since he brought it up (talk about "guts", given that he's "had his nose rubbed in it" very well, over trying to win an argument on another thread by ADMITTING committing a CRIMINAL FRAUD), ask "bubba, the LIAR" about (besides LYING, of course. nothing new there.) how he tried (STUPIDLY) to drag my minor niece into the argument. that was REALLY stupid & cost him even more respect by most people on that thread (though i could argue that he could NOT hurt himself any worse by committing murder, given his reputation as a LIAR & a BIGOT).
free dixie,sw
btw, IF you believe ANYTHING posted by "bubba, the LIAR" you're even dumber than he is.
when the book i mentioned earlier is translated to English & published here in the USA, i plan to rub the DYs nose in the TRUTH. (frankly, as i've been away from speaking German daily for over 20 years, my German is RUSTY.)
the portion read to me over the phone by COL Wurtz is, to say the least, incendiary! the book is documented, peer-reviewed & "point by point" exposes the lies propounded by the "lincoln administration" as KNOWINGLY false.
free dixie,sw
my suggestion is (should you want to waste your time) that you "chase down" his "sources". my guess is that you will find that at least HALF have nothing whatever to do with what he SAYS they are.
fwiw, he's been CAUGHT doing that ever since he "mysteriously appeared" on FR (just after TWO of the "most notorious liars, BIGOTS, & general all-around CREEPS" were BANNED forever).
btw, it is generally seen as an "admission" that you are STUPID and/or losing the argument, when you resort to the sort of VULGARITY that you posted. imVho,. you owe everyone on FR an apology for your language.
free dixie,sw
Up yours stan. Stop posting to me if you don’t like it.
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