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[Lord Flashheart]

Kasz216 said:

Lord Flashheart said:

Can I just say I'm only using the word Yankee because someone is butthurt over it. I don't know if its an insult or not and I am not looking to start a trend here.

It means Northerner.  The term Yankee was used by the South to differentiate themselves from the North during the Civil War... and often still used to this day to highlight the cultural differences between the North and the South.

It's the equivlent of calling someone from England or Northern Ireland "Scottish".

Well except a lot of the South still dislikes the North quite a bit. 

Southerners may find it insulting because it'd be like calling some prissy or metrosexual or something.

Really. I always thought it meant a southerner.

Why is it considered an insult now?