Cultural nitpick:Nah he lived in northern Georgia(The US state). Name was like Jordan something or other last I remember. A friend of mine dated him.
- When someone over on that side of the pond says 'yank', they refer to American as a whole. It is not generally a derogatory (or at least insulting) term.
- When someone south of the Mason/Dixon Line (i.e. colloquially referred to here as 'The South') refers to a Yank, it refers to someone in the north, generally in the New England area. It is almost invariably seen as derogatory, and calling someone from The South a Yank is perceived as a deliberate insult. To use another southern term, 'them's fightin' words'.
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