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From: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
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Subject: Re: Yankees
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Date: Sat, 8-Jun-85 10:32:30 EDT
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> Officially, a Yankee is someone from the State of Connecticut, not a
> person from the US.  Remember Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King E?
> Court"?  Unlike a New Yorker, a person is NOT a Connecticutter, but instead
> a Yankee.

Nonsense.  I quote from The American Heritage Dictionary:

	Yankee: 1. A native or inhabitant of New England.  2. A native
	or inhabitant of a Northern state;  especially, a Union soldier
	during the Civil War.  3.  A native or inhabitant of the United
	States.

If "Yankee" meant "Connecticutter", then the word "Connecticut" in Mark
Twain's title would have been redundant.

- a Yankee (definition 1)