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

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    2 days ago

    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.