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[jaderedux]

This is a totally random rantling......

I realize that everyone from the states is a Yank but my poor mother reads this board and is "simply appalled" that she would be considered a (insert gasp) YANKEE....

Mama is from Greenville S.C. and mama does not like being called a (insert additional gasp)Yank or yankee.

It pains my dear mother that y'all could confuse the southerners with yankees. Please note that I explained this to her many times and that depending on the situation it is not always an insult.

I promised said mother I would mention this and I have done my duty. Please feel free to ignore this rantling.

BTW I am supposed to mention that S.C. was the first state to secede from the union and that Jefferson Davis WAS a president.

And the south shall rise again....
Miss Jade sipping her mint julep

[VanIslander]

Your mother sounds like an ajumma.

[Emu Bitter]

I was under the impression from my Louisiana wife that your mother is right.
On that subject on behalf of me dad, not everyone from the NE of England is a Geordie.

[Qinella]

Tell your mom that Brits were calling Americans yankees way before the southerners started using it for northerners. You know the song "Yankee Doodle", right? That song was actually a lyrical coup on the previously derogatory term. It's like feminists who adopt the b*tch label in order to dull the epithet's blades.

I'm not 100% confident about what I just said, so, Mom, now's your chance to do some etymology homework!

[mount real]

Yankees won the war. Suck it up and eat some grits, Yankee! tee hee hee

[Gopher]

Southerners are not "yankees," they are "rebels."

[JacktheCat]

[Pyongshin Sangja]

Are you yanking my chain?

[Wrench]

We use to have a texan back in University we nicknamed her Dixie. Maybe your mom would prefer that?

[Ya-ta Boy]

I wonder if Mom skips the word 'indivisible' in the Pledge.

[jaderedux]