Editing Yankee (section)

==Historic uses==
===Yankee Doodle===
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[[File:Boston1775.jpg|thumb|200px|Loyalist newspaper cartoon from [[Boston]] ridicules "Yankie Doodles" militia who have encircled the British forces inside the city.]]
A pervasive influence on the use of the term throughout the years has been the [[Yankee Doodle|song "Yankee Doodle"]] which was popular during the [[American Revolutionary War]] (1775–1783). The song originated among the British troops during the French and Indian or Seven Years' War, creating a stereotype of the Yankee simpleton who stuck a feather in his cap and thought that he was stylish,<ref name="abcnews">{{cite news|last1=Mooney|first1=Mark|title='Yankee Doodle Dandy' Explained and Other Revolutionary Facts|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/yankee-doodle-dandy-explained-revolutionary-facts/story?id=24314207|access-date=6 May 2016|publisher=ABC News|date=14 July 2014}}</ref> but it was rapidly re-appropriated by American patriots after the [[battles of Lexington and Concord]]. Today, "Yankee Doodle" is the official [[List of U.S. state songs|state song]] of Connecticut.<ref>See Connecticut State Library, [http://www.cslib.org/yankeedoodle.htm "Yankee Doodle, the State Song of the State of Connecticut"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071226183408/http://www.cslib.org/yankeedoodle.htm |date=2007-12-26 }}</ref>

===Canadian usage===
An early use of the term outside the United States was in the creation of [[Sam Slick]] the "Yankee Clockmaker" in a newspaper column in [[City of Halifax|Halifax]], [[Nova Scotia]], in 1835. The character was a plain-speaking American who becomes an example for Nova Scotians to follow in his industry and practicality; his uncouth manners and vanity were qualities that his creator detested. The character was developed by [[Thomas Chandler Haliburton]], and it grew between 1836 and 1844 in a series of publications.<ref name = DCB>Cogswell, F. (2000).[http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?BioId=38597 Haliburton, Thomas Chandler]. ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online,'' Volume IX 1861–1870. University of Toronto/Université Laval. Retrieved on: 2011-08-15.</ref>

===Damn Yankee===
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The ''damned Yankee'' usage dates from 1812.<ref name="Mathews" /> Confederates popularized it as a derogatory term for their Northern enemies during and after the [[American Civil War]] (1861–1865). Rhode Island Governor [[Bruce Sundlun]] had been a pilot in World War II, and he named his [[Boeing B-17|B-17F]] bomber ''Damn Yankee'' because a crewman from North Carolina nicknamed him with that epithet.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.americanairmuseum.com/aircraft/464|title=41-24557 B-17 FLYING FORTRESS|publisher=American Air Museum in Britain|access-date=21 Feb 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/128810-my-68th-anniversary-tribute-to-b17-f-damn-yankee|title=My 68th Anniversary Tribute to B17-F Damn Yankee|author=Johann Willaert|date=December 2011 |publisher=The US Militaria Forum|access-date=21 Feb 2019}}</ref>