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To: Hermann the Cherusker
Pennsylvanians aren't yankees.

You're north of the mason-dixon line, which is the traditional geographic boundary between yankeedom and the rest of us.

75 posted on 04/24/2004 6:15:43 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist
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To: GOPcapitalist
You're north of the mason-dixon line, which is the traditional geographic boundary between yankeedom and the rest of us.

If you knew anything about the north, you'd know Yankees are people from north and east of Pennsylvania, and their kin in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota who went west. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, are all very distinctly not Yankee, mostly because they are very German and non-English. (To be fair, part of the far northern strip of these three states is probably Yankee.) Yankees are Episcopalians and Congregationalists - two very weak denominations here. Pennsylvanians are mostly Catholics, Presbyterians, Lutherans, and Methodists.

I don't know of any Pennsylvanians who would describe themselves as Yankees (we use that term to describe people from northern NJ, NYC, upstate NY, and New England), while I believe that Pennsylvanians do fly as many Confederate Flags as down south, and we are the nation's leading state in the consumption of snuff and chewing tobacco. Its not for no reason that Pennsylvania is described as Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between. And our neighbors in southern New Jersey are definitely not Yankees.

Pennsylvania and Ohio are most similar to Virginia, North Carolina, and western Tennessee - essentially Appalachia.

80 posted on 04/24/2004 6:45:21 PM PDT by Hermann the Cherusker
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