I’m from Pennsylvania. Agreed that New Yorkers as a whole are ruder and pushier than your average Northerner. To be clear, I’m talking about people from in and around the NYC area, though. They don’t represent the general demeanor of people from the rest of the state.

Same. The word Yankee means the following to me, in order of most to least relevant:

• A member of the New York Yankees.
• A derogatory term that people from the Bible Belt who still haven’t accepted the result of the American Civil War use for people who live north of the Mason-Dixon Line.
• A more neutral (maybe slightly derogatory?) term that people from the UK use for all Americans, regardless of where they live in the US.

I have never heard someone refer to a New Englander as a Yankee.

…until one of the warring countries runs out of robots anyway. That’s when the real fun starts!