Pride and Prejudice: What Does "Yankee Mean to You

The Bayou....Southeast Texas From a Different Perspective ^ | 11/3/07 | Ron Francell

[Non-Sequitur]

Attention: I am personally requesting that everyone ignore this idiot, and his anti-southern rantings. Believe me, his head would explode if everyone would do just that.

We'll see how well that works.

He is nothing more than a liberal slug, and needs to be treated no better. Ignore him, and he will go away.

It's truly sad that you consider anyone who didn't join the rebellion to be liberals.

[lentulusgracchus]

I didn't say that. Don't misquote me.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

This southern inferiority complex is getting quite silly.

[Colt .45]

"How about we talk about "f***ingjack*ssConfederates." Not every Southerner is a f***ingjack*ssConfederate, but some of you sure are."

Why X, what an ugly thing to say! Does this mean we're not friends anymore? If you were not my friend, I just don't think I could bear it. (/Sarcasm)

Count me among the third generation of "I don't give a sh*t what you think". Know whut ah mean Vern?!

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

Don’t forget the Southern Scots, Irish, and Welsh settlers.

It may be heresy, but I was including those in the British group. (gasp)LOL

[MacDorcha]

Reading your story I can almost take a stab that your family’s close ties might have brought about the experience more than anything. Y’all “stuck together” instead of trying to get in with your school buddies.

A turtle that shells up is going to get poked with alot of sticks down here.

If he doesnt shell up, the fun of poking it goes away, but now you have something new to ponder.

At least, thats how we do things by the river.

[rockrr]

Actually it was the other way around. As I said in my original post (shunned and ostracized by the locals, we grew to depend on each other.) and my subsequent post to the troll who presupposed that my problems were due to a "chip on my shoulder": "I believe the "chips" came afterwards..."

I did "get in" with others, but only after I had adjusted a few attitudes. One lesson I learned from my years in the south was to be the first one to do the "pokin"...

Thanks for the comment.

[Joe 6-pack]

"I and my brothers and sisters, on the other hand, didn’t fare quite so successfully. shunned and ostracized by the locals, we grew to depend on each other."

IMHO, Louisiana is kind of unique with regards to the insular nature of its families and communities. I suspect your being, "shunned and ostracized," was the result of being an oustider moreso than being a "Yankee." I've known families from Alabama or Mississippi who were generally treated the same way upon arrival in Louisiana.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Oh, and I'm calling Godwin on the reference to 1941 and the bracketing of Jeffersonians and Southern Jeffersonians in particular with National Socialism (again), something that you seem incapable of controlling yourself about. You should really see someone about that verbal incontinence.

I was thinking more of the Japanese than the Nazis though Hitler too had his contempt for the Yankees.

[napscoordinator]

Yankee to me means Winner of the War!!!! I am very proud of that fact!!!!

[MacDorcha]

Hey, no prob. All Americans. Sorry you experience was bad. Hope we don’t let you down next chance you give.

[stand watie]

laughing AT you, as most intelligent FReepers do.

PITY that you seem to be so clueLESS.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

laughing AT you.

fyi, most readers of your arrogant/hate-FILLED/bigoted/foolish nonsense & bilge think you're RETARDED & (at least) the DUMBEST of the DUMB-bunnies of "the DAMNyankee coven of fools, bigots, lunatics,nitwits, LEFTISTS & a racist."

but PLEASE keep spewing you usual load of liquefied manure onto the forum, as you DAMAGE the "unionist cause" with every post/emission.

free dixie,sw

[CT-Freeper]

No matter what relationships you form, what alliances or allegiances you embrace, you are always an outsider; perpetually a Yankee (or, as one dimwit on Freerepublic repeats, a “Damn Yankee”).

As a very good friend / southerner once explained to me, "Do you want to know the difference between a 'Yankee' and a 'Damn Yankee?' The Yankees eventually go back home."

[stand watie]

NOPE. we southrons don't want to do without N-S.

as he is "the Minister of DAMNyankee Propaganda" & spreads that HATE-filled, arrogant, ANTI-southern nonsense allover the forum, he converts NEUTRAL southerners to SOUTHRONS. this is a GOOD thing.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

to true southerners & most "persons of colour" in dixie, it means INVADER/OCCUPIER/WAR CRIMINAL.

free dixie,sw

[the OlLine Rebel]

It was written “the British Isles”.

[the OlLine Rebel]

You’re right largely about the ethnicities in the huge bulk expanse of the South, but here in MD (and part of the Virginia mountains), we have a huge influx of Germans. From the very beginning. And wouldn’t you know many of the latter-day were SOUTHERN Germans, like from Bavaria.

[the OlLine Rebel]

“Yankee Doodle” was indeed a derogatory song against the “Americans” (rebels) in the AmRevWar.

The rebels turned it around on them and used it anyway, as if laughing it off.

[napscoordinator]

lol. I actually love that. It is really interesting. I guess because I lived in Florida, Virginia, Mississippi, and Tennessee I can understand that humor. My home state is Pennsylvania though.