Editing Yankee (section)

===Yankee stereotypes===
[[File:President Calvin Coolidge.jpg|thumb|200px|President [[Calvin Coolidge]] of New England]]
President [[Calvin Coolidge]] exemplified the modern Yankee stereotype. Coolidge moved from rural [[Vermont]] to urban [[Massachusetts]] and was educated at elite [[Amherst College]]. Yet his flint-faced, unprepossessing ways and terse rural speech proved politically attractive. "That Yankee twang will be worth a hundred thousand votes", explained one Republican leader.<ref>William Allen White, ''A Puritan in Babylon: The Story of Calvin Coolidge'' (1938) p. 122.</ref> Coolidge's laconic ways and dry humor were characteristic of stereotypical rural "Yankee humor" at the turn of the 20th century.<ref>Arthur George Crandall, [https://books.google.com/books?id=AhXdAf0lBqwC&dq=%22new+england+joke+lore%22&pg=PA13 ''New England Joke Lore: The Tonic of Yankee Humor''], (F.A. Davis Company, 1922).</ref>

[[Yankee ingenuity]] was a worldwide stereotype of inventiveness, technical solutions to practical problems, "know-how," self-reliance, and individual enterprise.<ref>Eugene S. Ferguson, "On the Origin and Development of American Mechanical 'know-how'", ''American Studies'' 3.2 (1962): 3–16. [https://journals.ku.edu/index.php/amerstud/article/viewFile/2075/2034 online]</ref> The stereotype first appeared in the 19th century. As Mitchell Wilson notes, "Yankee ingenuity and Yankee git-up-and-go did not exist in colonial days."<ref>quoted in Reynold M. Wik, "Some interpretations of the mechanization of agriculture in the Far West." ''Agricultural History'' (1975): 73–83. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3742110 in JSTOR]</ref> The great majority of Yankees gravitated toward the burgeoning cities of the northeast, while wealthy New Englanders also sent ambassadors to frontier communities where they became influential bankers and newspaper printers. They introduced the term "Universal Yankee Nation" to proselytize their hopes for national and global influence.<ref>Susan E. Gray, ''The Yankee West: community life on the Michigan frontier'' (1996) p. 3</ref>