• Akasazh@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Do people in Washington, Montana and North Dakota think of Canadians as Yankees, it is the concept of ‘north’ weird there?

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      8 hours ago

      Canadians are not yankees. Yankees are from the southeast. The entire east coast of the US is far further south than most people realize.

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        8 hours ago

        I was trying to comprehend why a citizen of Montana would designate ‘a northerner’ a Yankee.

        I was being obtuse and ignoring the point that it was probably self-referential.