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Yank is British and makes us an American, and Yankee makes you a Union person or Northerner in the south. In example, a group of old southerners had a friend who was a Yankee born and bred that came down south after the war to help rebuild it and had a coffee pot that he let old confederates use. They said that "He was one of the finest, Yankee's they ever known" for letting them use that old coffee pot... Giggles snorts, I like that bit of history phrases myself.
It was a joke because i have never considered myself a "yankee" and i think that insistence on dividing the nation that way is a southern attitude. Southerners like to tell us that we think we're better than them. I don't really care, live and let live. Though, i'll gladly call out people who romanticize the confederacy in the civil war for their implicit racism.