question for the yankees

[The Unknown Songwriter]

So question for all you yankees, if you were living in the south, met a guy at a dancehall, and he started calling you yankee, would that be cute, anoying, or offencive?

[MuthaFranka]

hahah, do southerners still use that word?

I guess i still refer to you all as "hicks" "rednecks" and "hillbillies".

[Lone_Raider]

I can't believe that even the kids of the "modern" south, still refer to us Northerners as Yankees! I mean when I lived in Florida for two years in the 80's some of the older people really hated my mom and dad at work because they were from the New England, but I thought the kids might have gotten over that.

For god sakes, the civil war is OVER! You lost, we reunited, we had to come down there and bust up the Jim Crow laws a hundred years later, but that's it, the jig is up. No more civil war, you're all Americans now as well and not citizens of the CSA! Damnit where's Lincoln and Sherman when you need them lol ;)

As for your question, that would annoy the hell out of me and I'd start referring to her/him as a crazy redneck untill him/her stopped.

[halcyon]

Haha, I'm with Lone_Raider on this one. I wouldn't be offended. Just very annoyed. And start calling you names like bumpkin, my lil redneck, silly confederate flag loving hick. . . whatever it would take for said person to realize I don't particularly enjoy it.

Take it as you will, it may be a cute term of endearment to you and whomever. It may bring fire from the pits of hell. Or it might cause you to be called silly names to get you to stop or as yet another twisted term of endearment. I personally just don't see it as "cute".

[The Unknown Songwriter]

Well, yes I still use that word, and if you go to a texas dancehall on the outskirts of town, yes yankees are still yankees. I went on a couple dates w/ her, and I called her yankee, but she would call me a hik, so it all kinda worked out. I lost interest, but I don't see why ya'll are so up tight about the word.
Sean

[IGemini]

In my case, I don't find it particularly endearing. It sounds to me like another kind of geocultural separation. Northerner/Southerner works for me if you need to break it down.

I just prefer to be looked at as a person, not by what region of the US I'm from.