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[–] davel@lemmy.ml [S] 7 points 6 months ago*

I took myself out of the lavender but never the lavender out of me.

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[–] lemmock@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Same. The word Yankee means the following to me, in order of most to least relevant:

A member of the New York Yankees.
A derogatory term that people from the Bible Belt who still haven't accepted the result of the American Civil War use for people who live north of the Mason-Dixon Line.
A more neutral (maybe slightly derogatory?) term that people from the UK use for all Americans, regardless of where they live in the US.

I have never heard someone refer to a New Englander as a Yankee.

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works -1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

North Carolinian here: The asshats from New England especially New York who move down here to escape their native climate and/or manmade hellscape and then scream at retail cashiers for not saying thank you are yankees.

We don't care how you do things up north. If you liked how things are done up north, go up north.

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[–] lemmock@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

I'm from Pennsylvania. Agreed that New Yorkers as a whole are ruder and pushier than your average Northerner. To be clear, I'm talking about people from in and around the NYC area, though. They don't represent the general demeanor of people from the rest of the state.

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 months ago

I don't give a shit if you're from Long Island, the far tip end of Maine or Danville Virginia, I catch you bitching out a retail worker about how things are done "up north" you're what we in the South call A Fucking Asshole Who Needs To Go Home.