For some reason, I just took a jaunt over to
Wikipedia to learn just what it is that makes one a Yankee. I found this clarifying:
A humorous aphorism attributed to E.B. White summarizes these distinctions: -
- To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
- To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
- To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.
- To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
- To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
- And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.
This makes me a Yankee by all but the fifth distinction.
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