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Originally Posted by alphagamzetagam
Or, if we're really saying what we feel about people who believe that "Yankee" is and should be a derrogatory term, hicks.
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It's really just a fact - if a Southerner refers to Northern people as Yankees, and they aren't talking about people who are their friends, they mean it in a derogatory manner. Not like they necessarily hate them and wish they'd die (although in some Southerners' cases ...), but it's still a slur to an extent. That's how it's used down here. If saying that's the case makes me a hick in the eyes of people from other parts of the country, that's fine, most people elsewhere already think that when they meet me anyway because of my accent ...
