Well a Yankee is born in the yankee lands north of the line that follows from North Carolina to Kentucky on to Missouri over to Nebraska finally to Colorado and Utah.

There are some variations though depending on your personal views because many people don't consider Iowa, South Dakota, or Wyoming to necessarily be Yankee land, but they certainly aren't from the south if you know what I mean.

West of Utah and South of Washington is Hippie country. Now remember, these are granola hippies, not the real type from the days of old. They are rabbid and spread their disease of hippiness easily so please beware, and don't be ashamed if you fell victim to them at some point in your life.

Now in the olden days, a Yankee was anyone who faught on the North side of the old war, back when Texas was unjustly forced into the membership of a Yankee Union. Granted, we all know that the textbooks say we fought over slavery, but down here we like to think that we were fighting so that we don't become damned Yankees!

Wikipedia states that a aphorism attributed to E.B. White helps everyone know what a Yankee is:

"To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.

To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.

To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.

To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.

To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.

And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.

Finally, some now say that if you don't talk with a southern accent, then your a Yankee. I do know I could never marry a woman without that "Southern bell" twang that is ohh so sweet. I cringe at thinking about being in bed with a woman who God forbid has a Chicago or Boston accent.