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There's an E.B. White quote...
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.
Tell E.B. White to stuff it! New Englanders are Yankees, PERIOD.
When General Washington came to the American lines outside Boston to take command, General Artemas Ward and Colonel John Stark were furious (though Ward did a better job of hiding his feelings than Stark did). When Stark spoke to Washington, he had it clear his displeasure "...that Congress would see fit to send a Virginian to command what had been up until now, a Yankee army!"
E.B. White was a great writer. But his knowledge of history appears to have faulty. At the time Stark made his feelings known to Washington, Vermont was a howling wilderness known as the Hampshire Grants, and still inhabited mostly by Native Americans and a tiny handful of settlers. The not yet named state of Maine (still a section of Massachusetts at the time) was more settled then than the future Vermont.
Yankees = New Englanders (and New Yorkers, if they're nice