# Heathen Yankee sacrifice? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 21, 2003, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heathen-yankee-sacrifice/183346 "2003-06-21T03:08:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Quantum\_Butterfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e79b87/32.png) [@Quantum\_Butterfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quantum_Butterfly)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heathen-yankee-sacrifice/183346/41 "2003-06-23T07:05:57Z")
Just out of curiosity… Are West Coasters considered damnyankees as well? Or are we just plain weird? 😃 My sister’s boyfriend lives in rural Virginia, and I figure I’ll be travelling out there sooner or later. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heathen-yankee-sacrifice/183346/42 "2003-06-23T12:39:46Z")
I don’t think the West Coast even charts on our DamnYankee scale, though you might get an eyeroll and “damn idiots from California”… ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heathen-yankee-sacrifice/183346/43 "2003-06-23T13:10:14Z")
Unfortunately, **AllShookDown** , I don’t have enough information on my great-great-grandmother to look her up on the Dawes roll. She may well have been raised in white society, since my grandmother’s only living cousin also has no memory of her being Native American in anything other than appearance. I guess I should do some investigating before all the people who actually knew her are gone! The West Coast doesn’t count as Yankeedom – doesn’t count as ANYTHING, as far as I can tell (at least not to my Texas relatives), although if you’re from Oregon or Washington state you’ll probably get lumped in as a Yankee by default. But California is considered the land of weirdos, not really part of ANYTHING, as far as I can tell. Rural Virginia can be VERY rural. That’s where I saw all the cock-fighting roosters. My former boss, from the Roanoke area, gets very upset every time I send her a “you know you’re a redneck if” list, even though she sends them to me, too! If you can figure out a way to adopt some protective coloration, it does help – in my case, I can turn on a Texas accent in a heartbeat, which keeps us from sticking out too badly (Papa Tiger’s Minnesota origins are evident the moment he opens his mouth). ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heathen-yankee-sacrifice/183346/44 "2003-06-23T13:12:21Z")
[quote] The West Coast doesn’t count as Yankeedom – doesn’t count as ANYTHING, as far as I can tell (at least not to my Texas relatives), although if you’re from Oregon or Washington state you’ll probably get lumped in as a Yankee by default. But California is considered the land of weirdos, not really part of ANYTHING, as far as I can tell.\*\* And that’s the latest from the Department of Redundancy Department. Need…more…coffee… ---
**Author:** ![Searching\_For\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Searching\_For\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Searching_For_Truth)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heathen-yankee-sacrifice/183346/45 "2003-06-23T13:13:36Z")
I hope that experiences like **Khadaji** ’s are rare, and increasingly so. **elfkin477** said this concerning the importance of the Revolutionary War in the North: > [@](#): > > I can probably go six months or more without hearing anyone broach the subject. It would be even less often than that if book and movie dicussions were left out of the mix. As a full-blooded Southerner, I can say the same about the Civil War. When I hear the phrase “The South Will Rise Again,” I think of it in terms of economic success and importance, or cultural impact-- not slavery or bigotry by any means. I agree with what **thatDDperson** said about Reconstruction being more of the culprit for good ole Southern nostalgia than the War itself. What **Nichol\_storm** said in her second post was great: it summed up all of my feelings regarding the criticism of the Southern ‘inability to forgive and forget.’ ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heathen-yankee-sacrifice/183346/46 "2003-06-23T13:13:39Z")
Can’t even code right this morning! :smack: (Note to self: Do not attempt intelligent communication while still on the first cup.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heathen-yankee-sacrifice/183346.md?page=2)