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In reply to the discussion: Please feel free to nuke all of us Southerners...Drop a bomb on us redneck ignart Sutherners. [View all]DirkGently
(12,151 posts)"Yankee" dates back to colonial times, so trying to sell that as a slur is ludicrous. The Brits call us all Yanks and always have. It's a descriptor, not an insult. "Dumb redneck," on the other hand, is a genuine geographical slur that's still acceptable among a lot of people.
And no one's pushing back against good-natured "joking." There are no, "We'd be a better country without the North" threads. Come back with your straw men and false equivalency arguments when that happens.
The problem is with judgmental morons stroking their geography based sense of social and intellectual superiority because their parents happened to have them at whatever latitude they were in at the time. It's no better than homophobia or religious bigotry, and comes from the same small-minded, insecure need to look down on others that drives the rest.