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The term Yankee has several interrelated and often uncomplimentary meanings, generally referred to people originating in the northern United States or New England, where submission of the term is largely restricted to descendants of the English pioneers of the region.  The meaning of Yankee has varied over time because the origin of the term was uncertain.  In the eighteenth century,  it is referred to residence of New England, then in the following centuries it is used as a word in this sense “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”, which was published by Mark Twain at 1889.  Then later in 1770s, British people seem to apply the term for the persons from United States.  Outside the United States, Yankee is slang for anyone from the United States, but inside the United States, however, it is a different story.

A  Yankee is someone who comes from one of the northern states countries and fought for the union against the southern confederates in the war, which is called as Civil War by them and War Between the States by southerners.  In the southern, Yankee can also be anyone who is not from the southern part, although westerners argue that they cannot be called Yankees since most of their states did not even exist n the 1860s when the war took place.  In the Southern United States, this term is sometimes used in mocking reference to any Northerner especially those who have traveled to Southern part.