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a word the british, the confederates, and the world all use as an insult for americans, in shrinking circles.
means a term for an american, whose exact target keeps zooming in depending on who says it and where they stand.
from likely from dutch jan kees (a common name mockingly applied to dutch settlers in new england), later flipped by the british onto colonists, then reclaimed as a badge during the revolution.
shrinking circlemeans american, then northerner, then new englander, then bostonian
revolutionary flipcolonists sang yankee doodle to mock, then owned it
world series teamnew york yankees named after the slur, 1913
for instance
new york yankees — mlb team took the name in 1913, now 27 championships
yankee doodle dandy — 1904 song and 1942 film built entirely on the term
connecticut yankee — mark twain's 1889 novel uses it as pure new england identity