Damn Yankees

 

To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast. 

- Attributed to E.B. White

I wondered where the term Yankee came from and what it means, so there you go. 

From a post on Salt Water New England