• davel@lemmy.mlOP
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      23 days ago

      I took myself out of the lavender but never the lavender out of me.

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      22 days ago

      Same. The word Yankee means the following to me, in order of most to least relevant:

      • A member of the New York Yankees.
      • A derogatory term that people from the Bible Belt who still haven’t accepted the result of the American Civil War use for people who live north of the Mason-Dixon Line.
      • A more neutral (maybe slightly derogatory?) term that people from the UK use for all Americans, regardless of where they live in the US.

      I have never heard someone refer to a New Englander as a Yankee.