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Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> > > > Is "yanks" insulting. If so oops and sorry.
> > > Of course it is.
> Well, as someone who has moved from Massachusetts to North Carolina, I
> can definitely say that Yankee is used down here in a derrogatory (or at
> least not complimentary) fashion. Not only do we get accused of
> intefering with their state rights back before the turn of the century
> (which may be true), but we also get accused of comming down and mucking
> up everything now.
A Yankee visits, a damn Yankee stays ;-)
-Rob Doucette.
Massachusetts->South Carolina->Pennsylvania
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