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Edwynn -> RE: The Liberal Platform (3/10/2012 6:17:20 PM)
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Not exactly, Mr. Silver (the misspelling is intentional and intended as compliment).
Getting out of the way that 'Damn Yankee' has been absent my presence for over two decades to this point, there is yet a distinction and difference, though not as you claim.
All three of my sisters are now married to males born northward of what is still referred to by some that still insist on this term, the Mason-Dixon line.
One pair live in Illinois, and her (she GA born) husband has made great efforts to get a job in Tennessee, but failing that, he is hell bent on moving the family to either there or NC at retirement.
Another sister's husband is from Connecticut, has lived in Charlotte for 30+ years, has no inclination to move northwards, and enjoys himself and the people in the area, by his account, much more than those of his birthland.
A third sister is married to this guy from Pennsylvania, and he takes great enjoyment in deriding everything and near every person he comes in contact with. When we had a get-together at my parents' house, this asswipe actually opened the refrigerator and upon inspection announced loudly, "what? no Dukes mayonnaise? Ha ha ha!" Not I or anyone else at the time were aware that this was some mark of 'Southernism," but he was apparently quite well aware of it. And even in absence of such definitive mayonnaise, he nevertheless felt it incumbent upon himself to bray to the entire family his sentiments on his notion of what constituted a Southern mindset or lifestyle, all real evidence directly in his face to the contrary. And this in the presence of the other 'Yankee' husbands, who could only roll their eyes and wonder where this asshole came from. This is not unlike another poster to this site that uses the term 'teabillys' for the teabaggers and further claims that the teabaggers are a bunch of retired racists, all in reference to his never-to-be-lost notion of the region, when fact of the matter is that they originated in Seattle, and we never saw it in GA until almost two years later. There's the 'damn yankee' if you need it, Mike.
Quit making excuses, Mike, you guys either learn to behave or you will be called out for what you are. Simple as that. Those that miss out on it and dislike being called out on their lack of simple manners resort to whatever 80 yr. old notion they have in their head of the South. The better part of the population that make their way to the South understand this, and no argument from me that some worst examples of humanity arise from this region. We try our best to kick them elsewhere but unfortunately some of them find their way to the state capitol building or even the US Congress.
Life sucks here sometimes. The difference between us is that some recognize the issues at home and then others are blind to the issues at home. With some notable exceptions, my experience with those of upper Eastern origin is that a great many of them need better glasses.
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