A ‘Damn Yankee’ is someone who lived all their lives in a cesspool and wants to enjoy their final years in a clean swimming pool, but they bring their cesspool environment with them...............
I always thought that the difference between a “Yankee” and a “Damn Yankee” was that the “Yankee” went home, and the “Damn Yankee” stayed.
Giving rise to the classic bumper sticker, “We don’t care how you did it up North!”
In Oregon we call them Californicators...unfortunately the major metro areas are mostly such now, and politically Oregon is California North.
I am a former Californian, now living in Oregon - but I didn’t want to drag what I left behind into Oregon.