Re: Re Strategic Reserve.

["John Garrison" <corrjng@rbnet.com>]

Frank A. Rosenbaum <farosenbaum@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> Well, other than the fact that I am not playing for a New York baseball
> team... I am now living in the mid west and have always considered myself
an
> American. I wonder what reaction you would get from a Mexican or Canadian,
> if you told them that they were American.
> Also, Yankee was used during the Civil War to mean anyone from the North.
>
> --


And in the South we still use the term for anyone from the north. Meeting a
particular Yankee and finding him or her to harbor no ill will, will give
them a dispensation, and perjoratives will not be used on them.
Carpetbaggers however remain an unwanted sort.