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Originally Posted by AXO Alum
And for the record - valkyrie, I love you & would pray that you NOT punch me in the face - but I do use two terms for referring to Northerners... one is not offensive at all - Yankee - as in a recent conversation I had in Chicago in which another Southern sister asked me why they did not put ice in her coke at the restaurant... I replied "because they are Yankees and they don't put ice in their drinks like we do" - thus, a completely neutral statement on my part with no offense intended (and the Yankee sisters sitting with us took no offense).
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See, and I'm sure this is because I grew up where nobody uses the word "yankee" -- I hate it because the only thing I think of when I hear "yankee" is the stupid ass baseball team, which I hate with every fiber of my being. LOL.