varusword75 wrote:
Locked,
New? I knew you were slow but I never figured you were a full on r*tard. I've been using the word yankee in a derogatory manner since I was like 3.
New
word of the day, nimrod. You haven't been using it much until recently - I would know, as there's enough of your crap on here to recognize it :-P
I still don't get why it is derogatory, except if it refers to the Yankees.
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In the southern United States, the term is sometimes used in derisive reference to any Northerner, especially one who has migrated to the South; a more polite term is "Northerner". Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas pointed out as late as 1966, "The very word 'Yankee' still wakens in Southern minds historical memories of defeat and humiliation, of the burning of Atlanta and Sherman's march to the sea, or of an ancestral farmhouse burned by Cantrill's raiders."
In Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary 'Yankee' is defined in this manner:
"n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMNYANK.)"
A humorous aphorism attributed to E. B. White summarizes these distinctions:
To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.
I mean, sure, if you feel bad for losing the Civil War, that's cool. Wallow in loserhood, Varus.