Question for the Southerners!

[valkyrie]

Originally Posted by blueangel

Just be yourself. Don't change for anyone. If people don't like you simply because of where you're from, do you really want to be friends with them anyway?

WVU alpha phi's posts give no indication that she wants to change for anyone in Savannah; she was just asking for some insight into the area.

[shinerbock]

About yankees: Yes, we're all yankees to the British, and it deeply offends me...

Personally, I refer to yankees as anyone from Maryland to New England, and over parts of the midwest up to minnesota. I usually don't call people from the west coast yankees. I'll generally call them "hippies" or "bleeding hearts" or something along those lines. Now, if I get like Mel Gibson drunk, I could see myself referring to californians as yankees.

[blueangel]

Originally Posted by shinerbock

About yankees: Yes, we're all yankees to the British, and it deeply offends me...

Personally, I refer to yankees as anyone from Maryland to New England, and over parts of the midwest up to minnesota. I usually don't call people from the west coast yankees. I'll generally call them "hippies" or "bleeding hearts" or something along those lines. Now, if I get like Mel Gibson drunk, I could see myself referring to californians as yankees.

Why would you be offended? The term is not a derogatory one. You use it-- unless you're saying you use it in a derogatory manner for those who live in the northeast?

And, I'm curious.. why do people in the south call those in the north Yankees? We don't have a similar name for those of you in the south. Also wondering if it only refers to white people in the north. Or would you call someone of Indian or African American discent who lives in NYC a Yankee?

[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.

[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???!!!!

[shinerbock]

Yeah, but we like our accent. Yankee accents, on the other hand, are huge turnoffs.

[blueangel]

C'mon youz guyz. We don't tawk funny. Just cuz we wawk duh dawg and wawduh duh plaints.!

[CallieQ]

Originally Posted by shinerbock

Yeah, but we like our accent. Yankee accents, on the other hand, are huge turnoffs.

major.

clean out your pm box, kthx.

[LightBulb]

Originally Posted by KatieKD

My mother grew up in Connecticut, and she gets so mad when anyone that's not from New England gets called a yankee. NY, PA, NJ, DE, MD - not yankee!...to her at least

Then what would she call them? They are definitely Yankees to us. I don't care whether you're a soda yankee (Northeast) or a pop yankee (Midwest), you're still a Yankee.

Originally Posted by shinerbock

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.

Anyone from up North is a Yankee. Regardless of race. I'm surprised anyone said otherwise.

You hit the nail on the head with the friends thing. Hell, my boyfriend and I tease each other about our upbringings and we're both Southern (I'm a native Memphian; he's a native Cajun).

[33girl]

Originally Posted by LightBulb

Then what would she call them? They are definitely Yankees to us. I don't care whether you're a soda yankee (Northeast) or a pop yankee (Midwest), you're still a Yankee.

ahem.

It's pop in Pittsburgh and we definitely are not the midwest. New England is soda.

WVU alpha phi - does West VA have open container laws? I didn't think they did, or maybe it's just thinking everyone near us can't have the same stupid laws we do.

[WVU alpha phi]

Originally Posted by 33girl

ahem.

WVU alpha phi - does West VA have open container laws? I didn't think they did, or maybe it's just thinking everyone near us can't have the same stupid laws we do.

No open container laws, I wish. But in Morgantown laws aren't strictly enforced at all so it's usually pretty safe to walk to the bar with something in your hand as long as it isn't totally obvious.

[agzg]

Originally Posted by 33girl

ahem.

It's pop in Pittsburgh and we definitely are not the midwest. New England is soda.

WVU alpha phi - does West VA have open container laws? I didn't think they did, or maybe it's just thinking everyone near us can't have the same stupid laws we do.

Yay for Western PA and Western NY, where Pop, Heinz Ketchup, and Ranch Dressing rule the world!

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by LightBulb

Then what would she call them? They are definitely Yankees to us. I don't care whether you're a soda yankee (Northeast) or a pop yankee (Midwest), you're still a Yankee.

The original and (according to most dictionaries) still primary definition of "yankee" is a native or inhabitant of New England. Southern usage broadened this to mean anyone from the North.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by blueangel

And, I'm curious.. why do people in the south call those in the north Yankees? We don't have a similar name for those of you in the south.

There is a name for northern people to call people in the south: Dixies.

[agzg]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

There is a name for northern people to call people in the south: Dixies.

Or, if we're really saying what we feel about people who believe that "Yankee" is and should be a derrogatory term, hicks.