My point, ya see, is not to get across information on any specific states, just more generally that people in the southern and western U.S. do not well-receive being referred to as "Yanks" . It's residual bitterness from our great-great (or great-great-great, or great-great-great-great, whatever) grandparents losing the war for southern independence from the Northeasterners and Californians. You know, it's like calling a Scot an Englishman, there was a failed fight for independence that still, despite and perhaps even because of that failure, generates a great deal of hubris (especially for Texas, because we can leave the U.S. whenever we damn well please and no one can do anything about it) - as Cartman (of South Park) says - "You can't just ignore more than a century of anguished pride! Long live the Confederacy!"

British or English? Hell I don't know. But you see, that's part of getting a point across, if you're not English but are Welsh or Scottish or North Irish or whatever you don't want to be called English even though that's what most Americans would call you (or a Euro, or less flattering terms - how about "frog"...oooooooh...). Similarly, Southerners and Westerners (REAL Westerners, not the damn Californians and to a lesser extent the Oregonians - no offense to any Blue Bellies that might be reading this) don't want to be called "Yanks". I know, I know - here I am acting the part of the uber-proud Texan and I'm logged on to the Net (whilst most of my extended family is back on the farm, literally). But you get the point.

Look, Ross, and anyone else that has taken some interest in this rather odd conversation, I'm not trying to stir up any regional hostilities or offend anyone, I'm just having myself a hell of a lot of fun debating this nonsense.

I'll see you guys around, I s'pose - I think I've had enough of this for tonight. And remember that there are those amongst us that'd be making quite the "gen-you-WINE ruckus" out of all this, whereas I'm just making half-assed defenses of Texas and the South and the West and whatnot. At least I'm not flyin' over there to lynch your Euro ass with a 2x4, a crowbar, a pickup, some chains, and a .44 (a family favorite). I'm just jokin' around, see. I hope everyone recognizes that. But, seriously, I know damned good and well that there are some other Southerners, Westerners, and even some "fella" Texans on here, and we don't take kindly to that "Yank" crap.

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