Are you a veteran?

[tomf]

[Charlie MV]

Don't ask me, I wont tell.

[DoubleDogFarm]

[tedln]

Cuz,

I haven't replied to your post because I am shocked! Totally shocked! I thought Arkansas was the state where guys attended family reunions looking for girls. uuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhh.

Cuz Ted.

[DoubleDogFarm]

I thought Arkansas was the state where guys attended family reunions looking for girls

That's wrong in so many ways!

[Charlie MV]

You guys think that's wrong? Let me tell you about South Carolina.

Arkansas thanks god for us in nearly all categories.

[tedln]

Hey cuz! which state was Jerry lee Lewis from. He married his fifteen year old cuz. Was it Louisiana? Sorry Gumbo. I wonder if his cuz wanted to sit in his lap to celebate?

cuz Ted

[Canadian Farmer Guy]

I'm never leaving Canada again.
You Yanks are crazy.

CFG

[DoubleDogFarm]

This is why I live on an Island. You can only get here by ferry.

No No, lets call it a boat.

It keeps out some of the riff-raff

Eric

[Charlie MV]

Yanks? Obviously CFG has no clue what SC, Arkansas. Texas, Alabama and Georgia are.

Cousin Ted, Louisiana is an entirely different planet. We all thank gawd for them.


Double Dog, is that the island where the crazy people burned Nicolas Cage in the wicker basket?

[DoubleDogFarm]

Double Dog, is that the island where the crazy people burned Nicolas Cage in the wicker basket?

Shhhhh!

[Canadian Farmer Guy]

As far as I know, "Yank" refers to any American
Is there a different meaning down south?

CFG

[tedln]

Well, I kinda prefer yank. I've been called cracker and gringo, but they are not as endearing as yank. I never took offense to anything I was called so long as I was called in time for lunch.

Ted

[Canadian Farmer Guy]

I never took offense to anything I was called so long as I was called in time for lunch.

Amen to that!

CFG

[thanrose]

As far as I know, "Yank" refers to any American
Is there a different meaning down south?

CFG

Aside from meaning that you are Canadian? hehe.

Yeah. When I was living in Boston and in Maine (southern coast), yankee generally referred to New Englanders with a pedigree going back to the Mayflower if we used the term at all. It also was an adjective to describe food or craft of longstanding tradition in that region.

Elsewhere, through much of the US, yankee will mean a thing or a person from a northern state in the US, one that was on the northern side in the Civil War. Very loosely applied, though. I was born below the Mason-Dixon line (Maryland's northern border pretty much) by a hair, and grew up below it, so I could sometimes claim southern heritage with someone who was poor in geography and history. Jersey girl, Atlantic City and south... Definitely yankee.

Now I live below the Deep South. I'm so far south that I'm north again... Not really, but I can't claim to be a Southerner with a capital S because I'm a yankee from Florida. Has nothing to do with my place of birth, but more the region I live in and the customs I have.

The fellas from South Carolina, Arkansas, Texas and wherever else we might consider Deep South will very definitely view Yankee as an epithet for northern USians, usually preceded by Damn. Of course, Texans are notoriously independent and may resist being thought of as Deep South. At least Gumbo knows his Louisiana wore gray in the Civil War.

You know how Canadians have little inside jokes about the Territories or Newfies or people from Ottawa? Or if you run into a really bad driver, you think, "Must be from Toronto!" That's what we do. I'm sure Charlie has some funny thoughts on the difference between South Carolina and North Carolina and Ted could tell you some Okie stories.

Come to think of it, depending on where in Canada you are from, you probably condemn poor drivers as being from Detroit.

When I lived in Maine, people there thought Boston was marginally the Deep South.