| "Yankee" derives from "Yengwe", in various, indigenous tongues, which in turn derives from "English".
I am (or at least feel)[1] about as "Yengwe" as Albert Einstein or Tsunaluska[2]; and we have a long-standing tradition, in my part of the country, of distrusting "Them #@$% New-England Yankee types"[3].
Thanks for putting "xti" back in its place, on the "Polack" thing, and explaining to it what a "neck shade" is really all about.
The hilariously ironic part, of the whole thing, is that those who originated the pejorative notions of "dumb Polacks" and "dumb rednecks" were actually revealing their *own* lack of intelligence! Let me see them read the literary works of 1981 Nobel Laureate Czesław Miłosz, in the original language, or repair their lawn tractor!
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More German ancestors than anything, but with Tsalagi and Irish thrown into the mix, for good measure.
- Tsalagi leader who deeply regretted having saved (*spits*) Andrew Jackson's sorry posterior in battle some years before the removal to Oklahoma. Said that if he'd had any idea how history would play out, he wouldn't have done it.
- So much so, that some towns in my home state wanted to secede from the Union, just prior to our Civil War (which was anything but civil!). One has to dig a bit to discover this, though: winners of wars have a tendency to write history books such that they appear justified.
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