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From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Yankees
Message-ID: <410@mtxinu.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 19:34:20 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 17 19:34:20 1985
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In article <2457@decwrl.UUCP> schuetz@via.DEC writes:
>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.

Officially?  By what office?  The definition of Yankee differs regionally.
The sequence I heard went sort of like

	In Mexico, a Yankee is from the US

	In the South, a Yankee is from the North

	In the North, a Yankee is from New England

	In New England, a Yankee is from Maine

And so on, yielding the conclusion that there was but one
person who could be called a Yankee.

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