Do people from the UK realize that a person from the southern US is not a yankee/yank?

Question: "In the American South, the term is still used as a derisive term for Northerners, especially those who have migrated to the South. As some Southerners put it, "A Yankee is a Northerner, and a Damnyankee [written and pronounced as one word] is a Northerner who moves (or comes) South". Much as a resident of Scotland or Wales might take offense to being called "English," Southerners generally dislike having the term "Yankees" being applied to themselves." You just don't do it...... Sorry, this doesn't really have anything to do with travel...I just figured more people from the UK would see it if I put it here.

Answer: To foreigners, a Yankee is an American. To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner. To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner. To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander. To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter. And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.

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