because growing up, I only ever heard that word from neoconfederate types, and so I'm conditioned to associate that word with "the South shall rise again" bullshit
because growing up, I only ever heard that word from neoconfederate types, and so I'm conditioned to associate that word with "the South shall rise again" bullshit
In many languages, "yankee" or some variant of it is used to refer to Americans in general, like "yanqui" in Spanish or "jenkki" in Finnish.