2006-11-12 00:57:11 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
In the U.S. it means a northern American. To the rest of the world, it means American.
It's not a derogatory term.
I live in Texas and never considered myself a Yankee although my mom was from Minnesota so she was one.
2006-11-12 01:03:57 · answer #1 · answered by sister_godzilla 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I am Now living in Texas..but always get teased about being a Yankee because I am from up north (Minnesota)
Or some from here call northern people Yankees if they come here to visit, but Damn Yankees if you come here & stay..but you know I really don't care what they say I am a VERY proud American (& Veteran) no matter from north or south
YANKEE PRIDE!!!!!!
2006-11-12 01:08:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
most widely accepted explanation by H.L. Mencken argued that Yankee derives from the expression JanKaas, literally "John Cheese". a derogatory nickname bestowed on the Dutch by the Germans and the Flemish in the 1600s. (Wisconsin cheeseheads can undoubtedly relate.) The English later applied the term to Dutch pirates, and later still Dutch settlers in New York applied it to English settlers in Connecticut, who were known for their piratical trading practices. During the French and Indian War the British general James Wolfe took to referring derisively to the native New Englanders in his army as Yankees, and the term was widely popularized during the Revolutionary War by the song "Yankee Doodle." By the war's end, of course, the colonists had perversely adopted the term as their own. Southerners used Yankee pejoratively to describe Northerners during the Civil War, but found themselves, along with all other Americans, called thus by the English during world wars I and II. The alternative explanations--Mencken lists 16 of them--are that Yankee derives from various Indian languages, or from Scottish, Swedish, Persian, etc. James Fenimore Cooper claimed that Yankee resulted from a fractured attempt by the Indians to pronounce the word "English." But most others think Cooper was about as good an etymologist as he was a novelist.
2006-11-12 01:08:40 · answer #3 · answered by shannon 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yankee...A northerner
Damned Yankee...A northerner that comes to visit.
FreakingYankee...A northerner that comes to visit and stays.
2006-11-12 01:00:23 · answer #4 · answered by WHY? 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It means that you won the war, but in the south there are still some that refuse to believe it.
2006-11-12 01:01:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
An American..
2006-11-12 00:58:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here in northeast Ohio it means somebody you have to hate.
2006-11-12 01:00:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Northeastern part of the US
2006-11-12 03:52:24 · answer #8 · answered by Judas Rabbi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mean's you are an american
2006-11-12 00:58:44 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a derogatory terms us brits give the americans
2006-11-12 00:58:57 · answer #10 · answered by jimi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋