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Where exactly do Yankees come from?
Posted on 10/16/15 at 3:54 pm
Posted on 10/16/15 at 3:54 pm
As asked in another thread " why do people on this board use the term yankee as an insult?" one has to wonder where these "Yankees" come from. Usually it describes a Northerner, particularly a Northerner from an area that was pro-Union in the Civil War.
Mizzou fans get called "Yankee" all the time here. Which is strange, since Missouri was a slave state that didn't secede from the Union, but was represented by a star on the Confederate flag. Exactly the same as Kentucky. Are Kentuckians Yankees too?
East Tennessee was very pro-Union. Does that make Rocky Top a Yankee outpost in the South?
It is all very confusing. Especially since Florida is overrun by Cubans and New Yorkers.
Mizzou fans get called "Yankee" all the time here. Which is strange, since Missouri was a slave state that didn't secede from the Union, but was represented by a star on the Confederate flag. Exactly the same as Kentucky. Are Kentuckians Yankees too?
East Tennessee was very pro-Union. Does that make Rocky Top a Yankee outpost in the South?
It is all very confusing. Especially since Florida is overrun by Cubans and New Yorkers.
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Posted on 10/16/15 at 3:55 pm to spytiger
Why are you offended to be called yankee?
Posted on 10/16/15 at 3:59 pm to spytiger
People from Winston County are Yankees, IMO.
Posted on 10/16/15 at 4:00 pm to spytiger
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Are Kentuckians Yankees too?
No.
Now please read some self-help books and work on your self-esteem. Some of your fanbases' cries for acceptance and understanding are getting to be pretty unbecoming.
Posted on 10/16/15 at 4:04 pm to BluegrassBelle
Posted on 10/16/15 at 4:06 pm to spytiger
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Mizzou fans get called "Yankee" all the time here. Which is strange, since Missouri was a slave state that didn't secede from the Union, but was represented by a star on the Confederate flag.
The Stars and Bars, the real Confederate flag:
Which star represents Missouri?
Posted on 10/16/15 at 4:06 pm to HempHead
Anything north of Alexandria, LA is a damn yankee
Posted on 10/16/15 at 4:09 pm to spytiger
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Are Kentuckians Yankees too?
Yes since they couldn't decide who they wanted to fight for just like their chickenshit borderstate Yankee brethren in Missouri.
Posted on 10/16/15 at 4:11 pm to phaz
It is just because Missouri folks act weird like yankees. Plus they are pale and unattractive. 
Posted on 10/16/15 at 4:11 pm to spytiger
Anyone ever been to Missouri? Any area not named St. Louis or Kansas City is the complete opposite of the term "yankee".
Posted on 10/16/15 at 4:12 pm to HempHead
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People from Winston County are Yankees, IMO.
What about Knoxville, Tennessee? That region region of Tennessee remained loyal to the yankees.
Even their top high school in town is named after US Navy Admiral David Farragut, a yankee war hero.
Bunch of traitors.
This post was edited on 10/16/15 at 4:17 pm
Posted on 10/16/15 at 4:12 pm to spytiger
Yankee was a term the British coined for American troops, hence the term Yankee Doodle Dandy. It was an insult.
Posted on 10/16/15 at 4:12 pm to spytiger
frick off Yankee
Posted on 10/16/15 at 4:13 pm to spytiger
Yankee is a compliment. We won the war frickers.
Posted on 10/16/15 at 4:13 pm to spytiger
Term used by Europeans when referring to Americans.
Posted on 10/16/15 at 4:13 pm to spytiger
It's funny because in the Big 12 we would get called rednecks and hillbillies from Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa State fans for being considered a southern state. Now that we joined the SEC we are getting called Yankee's. You just can't win. That's what happens when you're a border state between the North and the South. 
This post was edited on 10/16/15 at 4:16 pm
Posted on 10/16/15 at 4:14 pm to TigerTalker16
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That's what happens when you're a boarder state between the North and the South
How much do y'all charge for a week?
Posted on 10/16/15 at 4:18 pm to FreddieMac
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Anything north of Alexandria, LA is a damn yankee
Posted on 10/16/15 at 4:18 pm to HempHead
I hate this phone... 
Posted on 10/16/15 at 4:19 pm to TigerTalker16
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It's funny because in the Big 12 we would get called rednecks and hillbillies from Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa State fans for being considered a southern state. Now that we joined the SEC we are getting called Yankee's. You just can't win. That's what happens when you're a border state between the North and the South
You guys are bland mid-westerners.
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