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Originally Posted by Judy n Ron
There is the global term 'Yankee' used by other countries to refer to Americans in general. WWII soldiers were often referred to as Yanks by allies. In the domestic terminology, Yankees were generally those who were from the states that did not join the Confederacy in 1861, however those that lived North of the Mason-Dixon line were traditionally called Yankees. The Mason-Dixon Line, named for Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, the men who surveyed boundaries between Maryland and Pennsylvania, was known as the dividing line between the North and the South. It's a pretty nebulous term today. Also, we have snow birds from Canada and other states not traditionally called Yankee states.
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I think when native Floridians refer to “up-northers” or “Yankees,” they sometimes mean anyone north of the Florida line. Terra incognita to those who use that term. But I have friends here who are real Yankees and refuse to say the letter R in words, except for the one in the word “idear.” I think more commonly, though, they mean people from states that were not confederate states during the Civil War and don’t realize that for some people, the war continues.
In the immortal words of Randy Newman:
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