[ElDiabloJoe]

I was born in California, and lived my entire professional life in California. However, my formative high school years were in a small farm town in a rural (then) county south of the Mason-Dixon Line. That line, for those not sure, was laid out by Misters Mason and Dixon. It is essentially the border between the states of Maryland (south of the line) and Pennsylvania (north of the line). Gettysburg is about 3 or 5 miles north of the line. I had heard that those born and raised outside the south were "yankees" regardless of where, including Texas and California.

However, working in a factory in rural Tennessee not long ago, the local born-and-bred hillbillies (literally, they live in Tellico Plains in the Smokies - the actual birthplace of hillbillies), it was made clear that Californians were not considered yankees by these folks. Mostly they considered New Englanders and mid-westerners (especially a lot of dislike for Chicago and Michigan folks).

I think the other poster nailed it, people who move to the south but insist on changing the culture or continuing with their thought/belief/opinions that do not align with those commonly held by those born and raised in the south.

The definition of South depends on where your frame work is. If you're in Virginia, you think it is there. If you are in Tennessee, they are not sure they consider Kentuckians southerners, muchless Virginians or Marylanders.

For what it is worth, Maryland was a "slave" state during the war of northern aggression, despite being below the Mason-Dixon, however they never seceded.