Americans, if someone were to call you a yank, would you be offended?

Can you tell me what is offensive about it? all the best urban

i live in montana, so no i am not in the south. for starters the word was originally used to refer to people in the new england states. i am not a new englander. more importantly the reason a southerner would take such offence to it as you point out, is because they use that word to belittle northerners. i have an uncle who has lived the past 12years of his life in louisana. he has come to find out that any time a southerner calls you a yank or yankee, they sure as heck don't mean friend!

yeah i know it doesn't mean just new englanders any more i was just saying. it offends me because i don't about where you are but where i am us fellow northerners do not go around calling each other yank or yankee. as far i know it is only the southerners who call us that. when they do they are not merely calling us northerners. they mean it in a derogatory or belittling way. if that does not offend you so be it but it does offend me. i believe this posts asked if we were offended by the word and i am. i didn't see anything in the post that said we had to defend why we were offended by it so why the 3rd degree over it?

Hi, no not at all, just think of it as slang. all the best urban