Originally Posted By: Old Joe
Hey Roberts you're using a wide paint brush. Within Southern American English, "Yankee" is a derisive term used to refer to any and all Northerners, or those from the regions of the Union side of the American Civil War. The OP is from Miss. Now let’s say there’s a heads up thread on a quail gun for southern “Insurgents”. How would that come across?


Why do you always have to do this Joe. Every time, every post. The term Yankee isn't insulting, but the term 'insurgent' is. Why, because they weren't 'insurgents' as no one knew whether a state could succeed from the Union at that time and even several New England states were considering leaving the Union after Thomas Jefferson was elected President.