what is the original meaning of "YANKEES"? why southrens calling Northerns yankees? is it bad or good? thanks.

Answer 1

i don't know, but it is bad.

Answer 2

Yankees live above the Mason-Dixon line, up north. It's basically a joke thing now.

Whats the difference between a Yankee and a Damn Yankee?
The Yankee came and just visited, he went home after a while, the Damn Yankee came to the south and stayed.

It basicaly started during the civil war times. The whole South against the North, the south shall rise again thing.

Answer 3

The British first coined the term "Yankee" to Americans during the revolutionary war. The use it as a derogatory term to poke fun at Americans trying to be soldiers refering to them as yankee doodle dandles" .
This i smuch like the news media used the term rednecks to discredits southerners which the southerners turned into a profit.
The colonist accepted the term , mainly due to a new tune called "yahkee doodle dandy" and this became a marching song calling the men to battle.
Before the civil war southerners no longer were considered a part of the union(not even by unionists themselfs(also thanks to war mongering liberals like lincoln, and news media) the term yankee stuck to mean the northern area of the united states while the southern counterparts were termed rebels(same as yankees were during the revolutionary war.)

Answer 4

The origins of the term are disputed. One theory claims that it originated in the 1760s from an English rendering of the Dutch language "Jan-Kees" (two of the most common given names of the Dutch), a nickname used by Dutch settlers in upstate New York referring to the New Englanders who were migrating to their region.

The word may also be derived from "yancey", the word many Native American tribes used to refer to Whites during the early colonial period. The first recorded use of the term by an Englishman to refer to Americans appears in the 1780s, in a letter by Admiral Lord Nelson.

Answer 5

it is a term used about people who live north of the Mason Dixie line i am originally from New Hampshire and now live in Tennessee.As for what it means i am not sure but when it is said by a southern person in relationship to a northern person it is not a good thing its kind of like calling a southerner a stupid Southerner.

Answer 6

I do not know the origin of the term "Yankees", but I can tell you that when the southerners say it, it is NOT a good thing.

Answer 7

We say yankees because it's funny -- no disrespect ever intended. Ya'll come on down for vacation, leave all your money then go back home. (ha!)

Answer 8

It describes people who live north of the Smith and Wesson Line. They are culturally different from us, generally not as genteel, if you get my drift.