A New Englander on the Yankee Mentality
February 10, 2004
I’ve had quite a few emails like this one today in response to my LRC article on “Yankees.” From Mr. JS, who identifies himself as “an expatriate New Englander” now living in Texas:
“If you grow up in the Imperial Northeast or meet ‘Yankees’ elsewhere, you get used to their propensity to insult you to your face — for your own good. I recall being on a trip to Greece with a travel group that included a lower-level lawyer in the District Attorney’s office in NYC. I had told him that I am the son of a physician and a private school English teacher. The attorney asked, ‘How does your dad feel about having a son who is a bullshit English teacher?'”
“These Puritans are always so eager to help us see the light and will use any coercive means to do so. I really feel Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter in part to expose this maniacal mentality . . .”
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