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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we all note that you didn't "take the opportunity" to tell everyone that YOU despise the LIBS/socialists from the northeast & "left coast", who i mentioned.
thus we can logically conclude that that bunch of DIMocRAT garbage is "just peachy keen" with you & that you think that that bunch is "JUST GREAT".
as for "robert KKK byrd",the WV DIMocRAT, as a "non-white person", he is NOT one of my favorites, but still better than the list of FILTH & GARBAGE like teddie "the driver" kennedy, schumer,barney frank, the hillery-BEAST, et.al. (if he was the ONLY choice i would deal with his BIGOTRY, over the likes of the others.
free dixie,sw
Thank you for reaffirming that not only are you an idiot, but a flaming bigot to boot. Once again you show how you torture logic, ration, and good taste to squeeze it through your bigot-filter.
Way to go stan!
PITY.
to "rockrr": IF you can string together two sentences, try "poking holes" in my post, rather than just reposting the same BILGE, FOOLISHNESS & DUMB-bunny comments. (fwiw, i'm beginning to believe that you are INCAPABLE of thought and/or INCAPABLE of making an intelligent argument from FACTS.)
free dixie,sw
What point would there be in poking more holes in swiss cheese?
obviously you cannot count to TWO and/OR "advance a cogent argument", which requires THOUGHT.
laughing AT you,
free dixie,sw
You don’t warrant one unless or until you answer the man stan...
the ONLY answer that would please him is one that would agree with the LEFTIST/REVISIONIST/"lincoln-worshiping" MYTHS, propounded by the most extreme, lunatic fringe of NE academia.
"your buddy", "bubba" is evidently as empty-headed as most of "the DYs of the coven", but is MORE dishonest than most of them.
free dixie,sw
"bubba, the liar" has sent an unending series of BIGOTED,incomplete,UNthinking, UNintelligent questions to me, which betray him to be BOTH & LIAR & a BIGOT.
evidently "rockrr' is NOT smart enough to realize that the "questions" are nothing more than a "tapestry of lies", woven by a south-HATER .
neither FReeper are interested in the TRUTH. instead they simply;y want to have their IGNORANT prejudices confirmed as if those prejudices are true.
free dixie,sw
Your reply is non-responsive and unworthy of a FReeper. You are a feckless coward. You belong elsewhere...
as i said earlier, your venom toward the southland & her wonderful people is obvious. you are the very essence of "south-HATER".
to all: should readers wonder what we southerns mean when we say "DAMNyankee" you have only to read "rockrr's" posts for an excellent example of a south-HATING bigot. (btw, DYs are NOT born that way, as there are MILLIONS of "perfectly nice people" north of the Mason-Dixon Line. instead, DYs LEARN to HATE & feel "superior in every way" to southerners. "DAMNyankeeism" is a chronic sickness of the mind/heart/spirit, which is functionally NO different than racism.
a personal note: i was an officer of the Army/ARNG/USAR for over 28 years (i have a little over 20 years active), traveled the world & saw many examples of man's inhumanity to man. SADLY, i must tell each of you that the arrogance, hatefulness, mean-spiritedness, deceitfulness & PREJUDICE is nowhere worse than the BIGOTRY of a small but really hate-filled minority of northerners, who we southrons call "DAMNyankees". (thankfully, the percentage of DYs to the total population is no more than 10-15% of the whole, but that minority is REALLY filled with LOUD-spoken,filled with HATE & ,if left UNchecked, will cause even worse sectional problems in the future.)
free dixie,sw
BFD stan.
You’re a liar and a coward.
The south deserves better then you...
PITY that you are such a GREAT example of a DAMNyankee BIGOT.
laughing AT you.
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
PITY that he & the rest of members of "the DY coven of lunatics, HATERS, fools, REVISIONISTS,leftists & nitwits" don't get the message that THEY are "the problem".
to: rockrr: laughing AT you.
free dixie,sw
why not gather up "bubba, the liar", "x" & and the other DAMNyankee HATERS/bigots/REVISIONISTS/fools & dance out the door (holding hands) to DU and/or the A.N.S.W.E.R. website.
fyi, you & your "buddies" will be "STARS" there as they, too, HATE southerners, LIBERTY & the southland. furthermore, the sad/pitiful denizens of those sites will be ignorant enough to believe your fact-FREE,silly, simplistic,BILGE & prejudiced/KNOWING lies.
laughing AT you (as most intelligent FReepers do).
free dixie,sw
Once again stan you twit, it is you who should hang your head in shame. But you’re too dim to recognize what a buffoon you are.
Go ahead an insinuate that I am a “south hater” it is no less a lie than any that you have told. Perhaps it will be more productive than your feckless attempt to get the womenfolk to do your dirty work (how’s that working for ya?).
Facts are facts and, as such, they are pesky little critters. Whenever faced with one you dodge and stall, you duck & weave, and you avoid addressing them at all cost. Instead you obfuscate with bluff & bluster. You try to enlist others to come in and fight your fights. You make transparent appeals to authorities in order to weasel out of the fixes you place yourself.
I remember watching a pack of dogs roving through the neighborhood one day. As the larger dogs sparred and tumbled, there was a little yapper that would rush in and snip at one or the other of the combatants. Not having the brass to actually conduct his own battles, he would snipe away while others were fighting. You sir, are that little yapper.
You have no shame and no honor.
i believe their names are:
Patty Murray (DIMocRAT) &
Maria Cantwell (DIMocRAT).
BOTH are about as big a pair of nitwits, as you are.
free dixie,sw
You shouldn’t end your sentences with a preposition.
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