Everyone is a 'yankee' to the foreigner.
Yeah, but "yankee" to a sutherner is always preceeded by "damn" and there is nothing between the two. "Damnyankee" is one word.
As I had to point out more than one time to others, "I'm not a DamnYankee, I'm a Texan, there's a difference."
In 1962 around the time of Bay of Pigs there was a lot of Anti-American activity in Mexico City with "yanqui go home" scrawled on walls. A Texas girl I knew told about being on a bus tour with some New York type guy trying to make points with her. He pointed out one of these displays and asked what she thought of it. She told him "Oh Honey, they don't mean US!"
when i'm traveling in Europe and/or South America, i always have the THIRD NATIONAL FLAG of dixie LIBERTY on my luggage! (and fyi, i met a LOT of "lovely ladies" as a result of those flag patches!)
free dixie,sw