Well I am a "New England Yankee" (not to be confused with a Yankee fan, i'm not, hate them. I'm a Red Soxs fan, but that's another story) One quarter of my heritage goes back to the pilgrims. While Ryan uses the term Yankee to refer to all those above the MD line and dislikes a certain behavior of those northerners we here in the north look at the term completely differently. Or you could say it has another side just like Redneck.
Words to describe Yankees are frugal, thrifty, ingenuity, quiet, self-sufficient, shrewd, and conservative. They're old timers that don't like anything "new fangled" or flashy, they can be very suspisous of anything new,like technology, unless you can prove to them it has a functional purpose. They don't do things for the sake of doing what is new. They like the tried and true. They make it if they can instead of buy it. When they buy its practical. They buy a sensible car and drive it until it dies (although I don't see a lot of Bondo fix up jobs haha) giving it all the proper maintenance it requires. They are not the ones buying the flashy luxury cars. Generally they repair their own vehicles. My husbands Blazer is newer than Ryan's, 1995, but he bought it used, it has like 160000 miles on it and he fixes it for the most part himself. His tires don't cost more than his truck. He bought them cheap from a warehouse store. (those big tires aren't functional and just seem like senseless frivolity.)
Yankees have well kept up, functional houses that they live in sometimes for generations. They are not the ones who over extend themselves financially on these huge 6000 sq. ft. houses to impress their neighbors and that need two partners working long hours, ignoring their ungrateful kids who they give too much to anyway, to be able to afford. Items they buy to make life easier are to be maintained and repaired not purchased, broken and tossed out to buy the next latest model. With new technology, they wait to see whether it catches on with people first before they ever buy something. And then they buy only if it is something that is truly needed. I think it was only about a year ago when I couldn't find anything on cassettes any more that I put one of those portable CD players in my car. That CD player was a gift, I didn't even buy it and I had refused to play the ridiculous price to have one installed. I do have my eye on a Plasma TV though! I really want one! of course I've been shopping for one for 4 years now, waiting for the technologhy to be perfected and the price to come down and besides our old TV is still working just fine.
Metal RN's hat collection could rival yours Ryan although, he wears his for practical reasons. He's big on his MP3 player.....no wait a minute.......I think there is at least an equal part of "Geek" in him so I'll stop here.
Hey I hope no one thinks this is an argument or something! I am not upset or offended by Ryan post. @ Ryan I think you and I, a Redneck and a Yankee, share a dislike of the same attitudes whatever name you call them by.
I think we all have some misconceptions of what people from other areas or countries are like. My husband and I have some friend from Sweden and we have been told how nice and how soft spoken we are, that they always thought Americans were sort of loud and obnoxious. Then we found out that most Americans that visited their home town were from the great state of Texas. Well that explains a lot! Texans are loud and annoyingly larger than life, could be view as obnoxious by a gentler, quieter people (could be viewed as obnoxious by ANYBODY outside of Texas haha).
Jeff Foxworthy is a hoot! I love redneck humor. It's important that we don't take ourselves too seriously and that we can laugh at ourselves. Where are all the Yankee humorists these days?
@ Ryan could you explain NASCAR to me ? That is one thing I just don't get at all. :rolleyes: :insane:
