[ROCKLOBSTER]

You sound like some kind of Yankee to me.

No, I just live here, I'm "from away"...a "flatlander" so to speak.

Some of the folks from here are insulted by the term Yankee, that's for liberal city folks from Boston and New York. The hardcore northern coastal types call themselves Downeastahs.

BTW name one conservative legislator from New England, or from the north east for that matter.

Well, I don't know about any Congresscritters, ours are all pretty liberal, but our Governor LePage is a fairly crusty rock-ribbed conservative.

[rockrr]

Some folks get their panties in a twist over monikers like "yankee' and "reb"...it must gall them that to significant numbers of Australians, South Americans, Brits, and Europeans we are all referred to as yanks ;-)