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Subject: RE: re: How about "Yankees"? Too many down here.
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Date: Thu, 23-May-85 19:20:41 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 23 19:20:41 1985
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> I'm inclined to use the word "Yankee" to refer to things of the US.
> Any cashier in BC (western province of Canada, for you eastern
> Yanks) understands "What's that come to in Yankee dollars?".
> 
> "Yankee" may have tarnished historical connotations, but then,
> they just may be deserved.
> 

I resent the implication that all of us from the U.S. are "Yankees".  I 
prefer to call myself a TEXAN.  What I call a Yankee is someone from, say,
New Yooork.  My idea of where Yankees live is anywhere east of the Dakotas
and north Tennessee and the Carolinas.  Although, my SO says they start
anywhere north of Dallas.

			Native Texan and proud of it.
				M.E. Middleton

PS	I really don't really mind Yankees as long as they're just visiting.
	Like the bumper sticker I see everywhere ---

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