[Sideshow Bob]

If you're from North of the Red River, Yankee is appropriate. If you're as above and living south of the Red River, you're a damned Yankee. For the record, Yankee isn't a pejorative. My wife is from Connecticut. If I called you a commie (sometimes synonymous with yankee), then you've been insulted.

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Actually, as a Wisconsinite, being called a Yankee IS a pejorative. We wear our scars and harbor grudges for insane amounts of time.

During the 1957 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Milwaukee Braves, New York sportswriters dubbed Milwaukee as Bushville. The Braves won the Series and every Wisconsin newspaper had banner headlines screaming "Bushville Wins!"

Yankee has been a virtual swear word in Wisconsin ever since.

FYI, the term "cheesehead" was intended as a pejorative by Chicagoans against Wisconsin residents. We turned it around to a positive, unifying descriptive term and created an entire lucrative industry of cheese wedge shaped headgear.

Of course, we have our own term for residents of Illinois - who invade our resort towns, highways, lakes and parks every summer. In polite circles, they are called Flatlanders. In coarser circles, they are called FIBs or FIBbers - an abbreviation for Fornicating (this is a family forum) Illinois B****** (a person of dubious parentage).

[Dr. Sivana]

I'm originally from Connecticut, have lived and worked in Wisconsin, and am now proud to be a southern Georgian. So I'm a Yankee, and a damned one at that by anyone's definition.

It is time to pull out E.B. White's definition:

To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.

[The_Victor]

Alright, I'll call you Cheesehead, out of respect for your passion. But realize that if I call you Yankee, I don't intend it as an insult. I know a lot of awesome Yankees (most of Mrs_Victor's family in fact). Please accept my sincerest apologies. :)