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Comments from a transplanted Yankee who doesn't quite "get it".
1 posted on 11/03/2007 6:59:33 AM PDT by BnBlFlag
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To: BnBlFlag

At some point you’ve gotta get over it.


2 posted on 11/03/2007 7:02:53 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
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To: stainlessbanner; Texas Mulerider; American72

Ping!


3 posted on 11/03/2007 7:03:20 AM PDT by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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4 posted on 11/03/2007 7:03:48 AM PDT by labette
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"It's not always aimed at carpetbagging pantywaists from states that fought for the Union 132 years ago"

Oh really? Then why you all get your butts kicked then? You all saying you people are so pathetic you got your butts whipped by a bunch of girlie men?

5 posted on 11/03/2007 7:05:44 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Pacifism is not moral. True morality requires evil be opposed, not appeased)
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To: BnBlFlag

ankee” means: [a] a uniformed member of the greatest sports team in history, or [b] a member of the armies that won the Civil War.


10 posted on 11/03/2007 7:50:24 AM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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It means a team that may never win it all again thanks
to Curse of Hillary (TM)


11 posted on 11/03/2007 8:08:55 AM PDT by raccoonradio (Boston Red Sox: 2007 World Champions)
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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.

I hate to break it to him but he is going to die someday and still be a damn yankee.

17 posted on 11/03/2007 8:35:59 AM PDT by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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Ol Dixie ping


19 posted on 11/03/2007 11:46:03 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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“Yankee” is never a term of endearment.

I couldn’t get past that. What BS.

Sounds pissed that Southerners don’t treat his as their better.


22 posted on 11/03/2007 11:58:27 AM PDT by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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23 posted on 11/03/2007 11:58:33 AM PDT by sono (Hillary's Campaign Theme Song? Donovan, "Season of The Witch")
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And I forgot to add:

“I had a good friend in New York City
He never called me by my name, just hillbilly”


24 posted on 11/03/2007 12:06:46 PM PDT by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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As a Southern girl, this is my definition of a Yankee:

A person who, being born north of the Mason/Dixon line, has an inflated opinion of himself and his intelligence. He believes that rapid speaking and condescension toward those born south of the Mason/Dixon line entitles him to assume that all such persons have never heard of indoor plumbing, (I actually had a cousin I'd never met before tell me that was one thing which suprised her about Alabama - the indoor plumbing), have never read anything longer than a comic strip, and never date outside the family.

If you, sir, hold no such opinions, then you cannot be called a true Yankee. :-D

A sociology professor told me once IIRC that Southern culture is distinctive because we are made up of comparatively few ethnic groups: Native American, African American, British Isles, and French. There were smatterings of other nationalities who settled here, but most of the Scandinavian, Slavic, and Mediteranian immigrants settled in the industrialized cities of the North.

29 posted on 11/03/2007 1:43:12 PM PDT by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch (If MY people who are called by MY name -- the ball's in our court, folks.)
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To hear Southerners talk about it, the Civil War is not yet over. Most of my forebears lived North of the Mason Dixon line, but one of my gg Grandfathers was heir to a slave worked plantation. He walked away from it, and was part of the Underground Railroad way before that war.
Just one of my rugged individual ancestors. :)


34 posted on 11/03/2007 4:51:29 PM PDT by Paperdoll ( Vote for Duncan Hunter in the Primaries for America's sake!)
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Yankees are just more demanding and abrupt.....it’s ethnicity and culture

not always bad either.

not all Yankees are smug and self righteous...just some....too many here obviously

Yankees trend more socially moderate to liberal.....that is unquestionable and rather obvious by SOME here on this board.

I refuse to qualify or equivocate but there are Yankees on this forum who defend the South and they should be given their due.

Women in Yankee homes tend to be openly in charge than down here....again unquestionable. Though women rule here too lest they’re haven’t the “power”


35 posted on 11/03/2007 4:58:26 PM PDT by wardaddy (This country is being destroyed by folks who could have never created it.)
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Yankees of old were abolitionists. Yankees of new are Kennedy/Kerry.


38 posted on 11/03/2007 7:43:18 PM PDT by 359Henrie (38 million illegals create a big carbon footprint. The real inconvenient truth.)
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To: BnBlFlag

This southern inferiority complex is getting quite silly.


63 posted on 11/05/2007 5:54:07 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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Yankee to me means Winner of the War!!!! I am very proud of that fact!!!!


70 posted on 11/06/2007 1:44:00 AM PST by napscoordinator
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Well, Rudy and Mitt are both Yankees, so is Hillary


101 posted on 11/08/2007 2:44:59 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Moveon is not us...... Moveon is the enemy)
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Yankee is a corruption of a British term of derogation which was a corruption of the Dutch meaning John Cheesehead, referring to the sometimes drunk Dutch citizens of New York after it was occupied without ceremony by the British and renamed from New Amsterdam to New York.


105 posted on 11/08/2007 3:01:35 PM PST by RightWhale (anti-razors are pro-life)
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Pride and Prejudice: What Does "Yankee Mean to You

1. Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
2. Brainwashed Yankees who to this day do not get Lincoln.

115 posted on 11/09/2007 9:24:55 AM PST by tailgunner (Conservative-Libertarian-Confederate-American Registered Republican)
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