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Kasz216 on 12 June 2010
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Lord Flashheart said:
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?

Because the Southerners used it as an Insult to the North, and still do... though not too often.

Same regional bullshit as usual really, the South thinks they're better then the North and Vice Versa.  Southerners feel more many and also more honorable then Northerners. 

Also reconstruction of the south after the Civil War really did more damage then good, and in the end you can say some of the south STILL hasn't recovered from the Civil War.