[arm958]

"No, my ancestors just paid for it."

I doubt that.

Yankee tax dollars paid for rural electrification, which gave you Yankee invented electric light and Yankee invented air conditioning.

[billbears]

Yankee tax dollars paid for rural electrification

Tax dollars shouldn't go to pay for anything of the sort. That is something that is a private industry issue and before the war was illegal under every state Constitution as well as the general government.

[Aurelius]

"Yankee tax dollars paid for rural electrification, which gave you Yankee invented electric light and Yankee invented air conditioning."

Not just any Northerner is a Yankee; there are good Northerners. You should read the article by Clyde Wilson that Benson refers to for a more precise characterization of a Yankee. For example Thomas Edison, who was born in New Jersey, was certainly not a Yankee; the inventor of air-conditioning was a New Yorker, so he doesn't qualify as a Yankee either. It is difficult for me to imagine a Yankee actually making a positive contribution to civilization. There may have been one or two who did, but I certainly can't think of any off hand.

[TexConfederate1861]

Well let me see...I suppose you Yankees are gonna take credit for the WPA now.....GEEZ!