Well, the furthest South I've ever lived was central Brooklyn, NY, and I lived in NY or MA for 52 years before moving to Central NH, so I guess that makes me one of those Yankees here?
In my 13 years on this forum I’ve noticed very little if any of the non stop assault on White Southerners and our mixed legacy is self inflicted
It is a steady domain of 99% non southerners here who dine on the bones of our past carefully avoiding criticizing our current failures which they BTW had a determining hand in but bear none of the consequence.
Without Yankees none of this mostly failed social engineering would have been foisted on us as it continues
I will make 4 claims:
There are some Yankees I like ...a few in my family...my kids are drilled against anti Yankee talk at family dinners....two yankees are on my homepage and here in TN WE tend to get the good ones....Nashville metro is at least one third mid west Yankee now....their kids tend to pick up our ways a bit
I eat mullet ..fried or smoked....easier to spell or wear....I merit no stink fish high horse
Anger....hell yes....my culture is under attack and losing.....helluva thing to leave my 5 kids....it’ll never be the same......and then on top of that to watch so many act like its better now and take credit for it or rub salt in old wounds from before they were liklikely even born.....you think the war on Phil Robertson is from southerners?.....no one besides Morris Dees..... black or white.....even Cracker Barrel....who jumped in stupidly..no longer the domain of TN family but a collage of minority outsiders mostly non southern just pimping our schtick.... I know cause I know that company intimately
I lived up north...folks are less open and casually polite and mannered* and segregation is alive and well in yankee cities...8 years Manhattan
...northerners don’t know blacks like a mississippian like me does...or a south African would
*white trash in TN is plumbing new depths soon to become tobacco hued trash which serves neither race well
White liberals down south are rare....10% tops in Mississippi or Alabama
Up north....they are ubiquitous....at least a third of Whites....usually higher
Its culture dating back to origins of immigration and religion and you guys living in less racially diverse areas as a rule before auto industry took off and simply lacking real time experience from which to judge us
Of course that doesn’t stop folks
Noble....I cannot seeing you as a foe and apologize for being rude
Nifster....you must be young but I hope you have a merry Christmas or past due Channakuh or Kwaanza or Boxing Day etc