That's It, I'm Tired Of Being Called A "Yankee"

[THUNDER HANDS]

I'm a fucking METS fan. And yes, I live up North.

Why must I be referred to as a Yankee.

From now on, I suggest all Southerners who wish to refer to Northerners do so as "Mets."

Thank you.

[JohnKleeb]

1. ha

YANKEE

[StopTheMorans]

2. i agree. btw, you guys can have Pedro

[yvr girl]

3. Canadians call ALL Americans Yankees

That didn't go over well in Georgia, I must say.

[JohnKleeb]

4. hahahaha

:)

[johnnie]

6. Why didn't it go over well?

:shrug:

[RubyDuby in GA]

8. Cause they're still fightin' the war here sonny

Actually, you'd be hard pressed these days to find natives. Most everyone, particularly in Atlanta, is from up North somewhere.

[johnnie]

13. Lol..I know

I was trying to be funny.
I was in a car with a bunch of people I know from Georgia and we were in Tenn. The one woman's husband was driving and forgot I was in the back seat. He mentioned something like "There's the cannons they used when we kick those damn Yankee's asses." It was something like they. The other people in the car kind of gasped and said "You know Johnnie is in the car?" LOL. He then said "shit". Like he got "caught". It was pretty funny.

[jswordy]

17. LOL...he KNEW you were there, all right!

When I moved here (southern TN) from Virginia, people would ask me where I came from. I'd say "Virginia," and they'd say, "Whad y'all do up North?

Uh, Virginia? Richmond? Capital of the Confederacy? "Still Up Nawth to us," they'd say.

LOL...

When I lived in Williamsburg and worked for a Richmond company, I delighted in telling Southerners there that where I went to college in Illinois (Carbondale) is farther south than they are! Yet I was the "damned Yankee" who moved there?

It's all relative. My most precious memory is overhearing a dear old lady neighbor we have hear say to someone else of me, "he's a Yankee, but he's all right."

I took that as the highest form of compliment! She had since passed away, but I think of her fondly. She was kind of like my adoptive Southern mama.

[alwynsw]

19. SIU?

Albino squirrels!!!!! Run Awayyyyyyyyyyy

[jswordy]

24. YESSSSSS, SIU! Best years of my life.

[alwynsw]

25. Murray State and UK in this house.

We're a mixed marriage. I went to the cool school.

[jswordy]

27. SIU and Missou.

[johnnie]

22. I hear ya

Yeah, I am from up north. I went to Texas last summer and everyone to them is a Yankee. It's pretty funny.
It's so bizarre because before the internets, I didn't really pay much attention to that. I did a lot of traveling and all, but it never hit me that there is so much of that North/South thing.
Pretty wild, I must say.

[jswordy]

26. Ya know it's funny, cuz those of us who have lived in both...

...places try to explain that this is basically making a moutain out of a molehill, and try to get each "side" to understand the other, and they are so set in their stereotypical prejudices on both sides, it just doesn't work. If I say I love both the North and the South, neither side believes me. But I do.

The best way I know is, if you are from the North, have Southern friends and show by EXAMPLE. Same if you are from the South. Show your Northern friends by example. Just the process of finding real friends in either area means you and your friends have to set aside your most avid prejudices so you can relate to each other, and that in itself is a good thing.

We often do so much work highlighting the differences that we forget the 99.9 percent of ways we are the same. And that's true of all of earth's people.

[johnnie]

28. I like my friends in the South

And I love the South. I miss it when I don't go for a while, especially the food.
I also don't lump all southerners together. The people I do know from down there I get along with fine. I was just surprised that some people still talk about "the war"..lol. It is just something that never came up in conversation up here.

[jswordy]

29. Southerners talk about the war because they suffered the humiliation...

...and abuses of a conquered and subjugated people, and so it has been kept fresh in their memories and family stores handed down. The victors have the luxury of forgetting. Not so the losers.

If you do not think the South was exploited, abused and run over roughshod after the war, you need to reread your history books. That kind of thing tends to stick with folks generationally.

I visit tribal reservations across this country, and many times am the only white person among all Indians. Believe me, they talk about their own wars still, too, and about the indignities and abuses they suffered as a conquered and subjugated people. As my Lakota friend says, "I forgive, but I do not forget."

The parallels are striking. I theorize that all defeated and occupied people anywhere probably display the same behaviors.

[RubyDuby in GA]

5. Seriously, I don't know why other Southerners are only calling you Yankee

Everyone here knows the proper term is damnyankee. All one word. So if it makes you feel better, I'll call you a DamnYankeeMets :)

[edbermac]

7. Why are they called them the NY Giants and the NY Jets??

They play in fucking New Jersey!!!

[northzax]

9. you're a Mets fan?

no wonder you can't take a compliment.

[jandrok]

10. Enjoy Carlos Beltran, you damn Yanqui

You guys will at least be entertaining this year. My poor 'Stros are gonna suck basement water.

[hfojvt]

11. how about we call them Knickerbockers instead?

Or Dodgers?

[pintobean]

12. This won't help,

but I found it interesting.
http://www.wordorigins.org/wordory.htm#yankee

[jus_the_facts]

14. NO you're a DAMN Yankee!!

...so THERE!! :evilgrin:

:hi:

[Redstone]

15. No, they shouldn't call northerners "Mets."

They should call us "Sox."

After, you know, a winning team.

Redstone

[jswordy]

16. I get called "Yankee" about two million times every Sunday...

...when I watch the races with my all-Southern buddies. Fact, I told them one time I was tired of hearing it, that it bothers me, and they told me they were not doing it out of meaness but just as good-natured pulling my chain. That's why I don't complain. It's a weird sign of acceptance. A man thing, like a friend calling you "asshole" good naturedly. I think more depends on how I TAKE IT than in any intent they have. (See "Iron John" by Robert Bly.)

Further, I have lived in the South so long now that when I go home, people call me "Rebel" and say I talk like "one of those damned Southerners." Then they invariably ask me if I am still fighting the Civil War. Sigh.

I guess I am now a citizen of the Whole United States. :shrug:

[Texasgal]

18. Shud Up YANKEE!

:P Just kiddin'!

[RPM]

20. sweet - and when i am called Yankee I will reply by calling that person

"GODDAMNED REDNECK REBEL TRAITOR SLAVEHOLDER"

try that on for size...

:-)

[bigwillq]

21. Better than a being a Red Sox fan

:)

[alwynsw]

23. Yankee? Damn Yankee?

I prefer the latter. Yank on that!