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To the rest of Americans, the term 'Yankee' is used to describe someone from which part of the country?

Correct answer: Northeast

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What people think about it: 23 Comments

Player #48458

JezzerLX, I think during colonial times the British used this term as an insult to us

Gary

I was called a Yankee the whole time I was in Texas and I was from Michigan not really northeast.

NaxosAghiaAnna

I remember my dad saying that in WW2 the expression for brits to say was "yanks, overdressed, overpaid and over ere!"

Player #4250921

And let us not forget those lovable New York Yankees.

UnfilledInertia8

ZyggyStardust, I'm from Arkansas. I have always heard. A Yankee can come to visit. If he stays he a damn Yankee.

Birdiemom

dolphinmn, to Brits and Canucks, we're all Yanks. And where you're from, everybody else is DAMNyankees.

devijun56

Derived from "Jan Cheese", referring to the many Dutch dairy farmers in the area, especially around New Amsterdam.

Shellback

I prefer being called a Cape Codder, although I am oft referred to as a Cape Codger.

Rikki

Isn't it Strange that To foreigners, a Yankee is an American. To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner. To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner. To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander. To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter. And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast. E.B. White

Player#MaBe

ZyggyStardust, I'm originally a michigander too ,but picked up southern drawl when I lived down south

terrick

Curmudgeon, us true New Englanders..Boston Yankee do not call soda pop..we actually call it tonic

Maestra

Stevie G’s explanation is terrific! I love how he goes over several different contexts.

KittyA9

Anyone who is from north of the Mason Dixon Line is a Yankee. End of.

Player #58092313

Player #48458, when I moved from Philadelphia to Myrtle Beach in my highschool days I was an outcast because my best friend was black and I am white. That's been 80yrs and not much has changed. In our beautiful country this is appealing. .

Colnago CLX

I'm from Alabama, anyone from the north was a yankee.

Robster

I'm a Yankee doodle dandy..

Player cowgirl

that was easy

Player #29793410

I'm from Alaska and when I lived in SC that's all I heard, yankee this and yankee that and I'd tell them I'm not a yankee and if they wanted to get down to basics, I can trace my ancestry to NC and I even have a town named after me so who's the yankee?