The Yankee Problem in America

LewRockwell.com ^ | April 24, 2003 | Clyde Wilson

[Cable225]

3,957 words.

3,957 words

Three thousand, nine hundred and fifty seven words.

To say absolutely nothing of importance. Fortunately for me, I adopted my "Oh, it's another Libertarian screed" dull, glazed stare 57 words into it. The remaining 3900 words were only scanned to see if any of the "points" the author tried to make connected in any way, shape or form. True to form, they did not.

The only thing it conveys is "I'm a Libertarian and I can prattle on endlessly.

Does anyone have any idea what this screed is about?

[holdmuhbeer]

This is total horsecrap and I was born and have always lived in NC.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

My wife was born and raised in the south. She calls anyone who moves down south from north of the Mason-Dixon line and starts complaining about how things are different down here a "Yankee" or a "Damned Yankee." Anyone who comes from up north and doesn't deride the south is a "Northerner."

[Celtjew Libertarian]

When we're outside the U.S., we're all Yankees. When we're inside, the meaning shifts.

[Poohbah]

I always thought a "Damn Yankee" was one that was in the same state as a Southerner.

I disliked my time in the South (summers were too humid and buggy--and winters too wet and cold--for a kid from the California coastal desert). But there were some good people there, just like anywhere.

[Non-Sequitur]

Bump

[wardaddy]

Nice take...interesting....

....btw...this article has already been posted yesterday for what that's worth.

I can see some truth in it but it is a bit harsh.

[tophat9000]

Kennedy was a "Yankee".. When I think of Yankee, I think largely of New England snobs.

Kennedy was not a Yankee nor are the bulk of the New England snobs

A true Yankee is a descendent of the original New England settlers (I.E. the pilgrims)

The thing is the bulk of them did not end up rich snobs

The average Yankee is/was a taciturn working man/farmer

My dad was a classic Yankee an grew up as a poor farm kid

[wardaddy]

Nice expounding....this theme has always fascinated me.

[wardaddy]

You got lucky;>)

[katnip]

Hearing a Northeastern accent roils up a deep hostility within the breast of any Southern man. Southern women, too

Maybe it's just you and your family that feel that way?

I'm a Northerner from NYC that spent 8 wonderful years living in the south. Most people there couldn't have been nicer and I made great friends .

Ps. I don't think they were just pretending to be nice.

[wardaddy]

You're right. I was in Minneapolis a few years ago for the first time and I remember thinking that folks there were just as friendly (maybe even more geuinely so) as my fellow Southerners but that they "talked funny"...lol

When I lived in Manhattan, it was a bit harder and I almost always had to overcome the "rube" aspect of my culture with them. Manhattan women though liked Southern men oddly. It always took me a while to get used to the stacatto verbspeak when chatting with NY Italians or Jews. My temperate zone brain simply doesn't motivate my mouth that sharply..lol

A lot of it really does go back to the origins of the original settlers....especially in the South where the native European bloodlines are fairly intact and still the majority of the culture.

[piasa]

ROTFL!

[Celtjew Libertarian]

I disliked my time in the South (summers were too humid and buggy--and winters too wet and cold--for a kid from the California coastal desert). But there were some good people there, just like anywhere.

I'm from the snowbelt of upstate New York originally.... I'm not terribly fond of the summers, but I've adjusted.

[LonePalm]

You forgot the Barf Alert and Lew Rockwell warnings.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Celtjew Libertarian]

Well....I'd respected the south at least since I read about Judah Benjamin. Then, I found a southern girl who grew up with posters of Mark Spitz and Uri Geller in her bedroom.... The rest was easy. 8>)

[LonePalm]

So far this year it's Yankees 2, Angels 1.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Celtjew Libertarian]

When I lived in Manhattan, it was a bit harder and I almost always had to overcome the "rube" aspect of my culture with them.

Like I said a few posts earlier, I grew up the Upstate New York Snowbelt. As far as people from NYC and environs were concerned, I was a rube.

[tictoc]

One of my roommates in college was from Little Rock.

The memory of the stupid, prejudiced questions I would ask him (about "racial politics" in the South) makes me cringe to this day.

He was a real gentleman, too. Never lost his temper.