[blueangel]

Originally Posted by shinerbock

Well, I'm not really offended, but I would never choose to be referred to as a yankee.

Yankee is used in two ways. If you have friends who are from the north, you'll call them yankees just jokingly. Second, you refer to the stereotypical northeastern or midatlantic state person as a yankee. Generally, these are people who speak with an accent, or act rude, etc.
Regarding minorities, I don't usually call them yankees.

And people from the south don't have an accent???!!!!