WARNING: a little bit of thread creep.

I learned this bit of wisdom some years ago:

"All the world knows that a yankee is someone from the United States.

"Everybody in the Southern US knows that a yankee is someone from north of the Mason-Dixon line.

"Everybody north of the Mason-Dixon line knows that a yankee is somebody from New England."

"Everybody in New England knows that a yankee is somebody from Vermont."

"Everybody in Vermont knows that a yankee is someone who eats pie for breakfast."

Dave Oesterreich