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Colloquial (often disparaging) term for an
American. Outside the USA the term is applied
to any American. During the American Civil
War, the term was applied by Southerners to
any Northerner or member of the Union Army
and is still used today to refer to
Northerners. A `real yankee' is a person from
the New England states, especially someone
descended from a colonial founding family.
The word has come to connote craftiness and
business acumen, as in `yankee ingenuity'.