Eastern Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“I have never yet gotten entirely over the feeling that a Yankee, on account of his peculiar teachings and bringing-up, is far inferior to…

— George Benjamin West

Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can…

— Lewis Grizzard

The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt such low…

— Margaret Mitchell

Disagreeing with the fervent patriotism of the Confederates: "I think it's hard winning a war with words, gentlemen. . . . I'm saying very…

— Clark Gable

Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than…

— John Shelton Reed

The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low…

— Margaret Mitchell

“As proud Southerners, we don’t take kindly to being told by Yankees what we are doing wrong. It might be the wrongest of the…

— Thomas F. Clardy

Nothing is worse than a Yankee telling a Southerner that his monuments don't matter.

— Corey Stewart

The Yankees had to fight all year to get in. When you're fighting all year and fighting all year, it wears you out a…

— Larry Bowa

The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.

— Reggie Jackson

I understand what it is to be a Yankee. Expectations are ramped up even more.

— Aaron Boone

“Gone with the Wind, a self-help manual that dealt with the subject of how best to cope with Yankees when they venture south.”

— Raymond L. Atkins