Outside Reading: America's Yankee Problem

Synopsis: It's interesting that throughout the world you can hear, "Yankee, go home" yet the phrase was first uttered by Southerners. There is, in fact, a large difference between Americans and Yankees. Other countries love America and Americans—it's Yankees they hate. Americans love freedom, mind their own business, and help their neighbors. Yankees want you to be free to do what they think is best, meddle, and think they are superior to their neighbors. In this article, Clyde Wilson gives us some insight into why we should wary of Yankees and the Yankee attitude.