In antebellum Kansas, Jayhawkers were abolitionists who often clashed with pro-slavery Border Ruffians.
Today Jayhawkers are students & alumni of Kansas University.
Pre-war Northern sympathizers were called "Doughfaces", a mild form of disparagement.
During the Civil War, Northern sympathizers of Confederates were called "copperheads".
There's a long list of colorful nicknames used for various groups of that time, including Fire Eaters & Wide Awakes.
How about you give an opinion on the present? Where are our enemies? (assuming you are a conservative)
They are the comfortable and well-educated mainstay of our modern Democratic party. They are also the grandees of our national media; the architects of our software; the designers of our streets; the high officials of our banking system; the authors of just about every plan to fix social security or fine-tune the Middle East with precision droning. They are, they think, not a class at all but rather the enlightened ones, the people who must be answered to but who need never explain themselves.
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There are wonderful things to be found in this treasure trove when you search the gilded words “Davos” or “Tahoe”. But it is when you search “Vineyard” on the WikiLeaks dump that you realize these people truly inhabit a different world from the rest of us. By “vineyard”, of course, they mean Martha’s Vineyard, the ritzy vacation resort island off the coast of Massachusetts where presidents Clinton and Obama spent most of their summer vacations. The Vineyard is a place for the very, very rich to unwind, yes, but as we learn from these emails, it is also a place of high idealism; a land of enlightened liberal commitment far beyond anything ordinary citizens can ever achieve.