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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (R. Curtis Jackson)
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Subject: Re: How about "Yankees"?
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Date: Mon, 27-May-85 19:46:58 EDT
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> I'm currently living in the southern U.S., and use of the term "yankee"
> is usually preficed by the term "goddamn" as in, "Let's go whup us
> some of them goddamn yankees been puttin brown sugar on their grits."

You got it.  Actually, although I think that there is no prettier place
in the world than North Carolina (or friendlier people or more beautiful
women or......), I went through mild culture shock when I moved here
3 years ago from the Mississippi Gulf Coast.  These people put slaw on
their barbecue sandwiches (heresy), drink Pepsi instead of Coca-cola
(sacrilege), like their cornbread excessively sweet (abominable, but
quite tasty), and deny that the Beach Boys are beach music; preferring
instead The Drifters, The Embers, etc.

Besides, Winston-Salem (about 20 miles away) is over 1/3 Yankees!!
And more carpetbaggers comin' in every day!  That's OK though; I'm going
to love sipping Peppermint Schnapps by the Blue Ridge Parkway this
winter while it's solid glare ice and watch the Florida tourists coming
down the mountain in their New Yorkers and fancy vans with slick tires...
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