What you say about learned prejudice is true, s_w. How-some-ever, just to annoy that person I don't actually post to anymore (the one from Chicago who says he's from downstate but doesn't post at all like he's from downstate Illinois and who I think is flying a false flag -- not the other one from Tennessee who always says he's from Tennessee but won't admit to being a scalawag even though he posts like Ben Butler's retarded son-in-law), I'm going to (gasp!) publicly disagree with you -- yes, true! -- because the aforementioned maroon insisted we always agree about everything. So I'm going to disagree about what we are dealing with here, which isn't damnyankeeness.
Damnyankees are mostly about money, pride, and push, IMHO. They want to trade bad goods for good ones and hornswoggle people (preferably Indians) on real estate deals, and then they want to use their money to start a "bank" and start acting all highfalutin' (until they get stomped into the dirt by an uncooperative, uncouth Southerner like Andy Jackson did to Nicholas Biddle, whose descendant showed the family character by becoming the "Mayflower Madam"), decorate the place with doubtful reproductions and expensive paneling paid for by their chumps accountholders, excuse me, and then go around with their chests puffed out, sneering down their razor-thin noses past their razor-thin chicken lips (the upper one of which is always curled), and generally telling the rest of the world what to do, without any theological or political sanction for doing so. That's a damnyankee. His faults are many, but his vision at least is limited to the end of his (I concede, extensive) nose.
How-some-ever, whut we have heah, as Strother Martin said, is failyuh to communicate, which is caused by not damnyankeeness, but Marxist-socialist totalitarianism -- a.k.a. Newthink in the parlance of the late secular saint George Orwell -- that tells these morons what to say and do in every sitchyashun. You are right that it's eddy-cated in, but you've got the wrong brand of Who Struck John that they've been passing around the First Grade recess room.
Yankees aren't (usually) the kind of statists that Socialists are. It's true, the Hamiltonians begat the Lincolnians, and the Lincolnians begat their uncomely begats, the McKinleyite National Greatness Republicans and their schismatic bretheren, the Bull Moosers, and it's true that Vermonters and other such ilk have voted regularly for all of those. But they're also the descendants of the Green Mountain Boys, who were decidedly anti-statist, and whom the Federalists betrayed into the hands of the Bull Mooser, Jaycee Statists who think that government should be a free lunch for business (them) and paid for with the taxes of other people (us).
But some people would argue with me and say that the idiots writing the letters to the editor of that character-enfeebling newsrag weren't even National Greatness types, but their bastard second cousins from over the sea, which is to say, the spawn of coffeehouse Eurotrash who used to sit around endlessly talking of this and that and drinking great volumes of tedious French plonk. The kind of people who wound up deciding they were Socialists, even Marxists, and that Stalin could do no wrong. So let's argue -- which kind of idiots are these, and is their spew merely sewage, or is it worse than sewage, viz., untreated medical waste from the Ebola ward?
Now, see, we have Officially Disagreed! -- LOL!
free the southland NOW,sw