"swamp yankee"

[Barnhart]

The earliest quotes I found to date aside from H. Kurath (OEDs 1941) (and
I'm not finished looking):

1955 Sept 9  _Tri-City Herald_ [Pasco, Wash.] (NewspaperArchive.com) 4
The population here [Berkshire County, Mass.] consists principally of what
are known as swamp Yankees folks who came into these hills from Hartford
to fight Indians.  They stayed.

1959 April 16 _The Berkshire Eagle_ [Pittsfield, Mass.]
(NewspaperArchive.com) 22  It's amusing to see that the big-brother
relationship between chambers of commerce and their junior counterparts
does not preclude an outspoken Jaycee president from blasting "webfooted,
swamp-Yankee thinking among his seniors ...

American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on Tuesday, July 18,
2006 at 6:34 PM -0500 wrote:
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>In OEDs has a quote from H. Kurath (1941) and from American Speech (1963).
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>1963 Amer. Speech XXXVIII. 121 The term _swamp Yankee may be defined as 'a
>rural New England dweller who abides today as a steadfast rustic and who
>is of Yankee stock that has endured in the New England area since colonial
>days.'
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>Kurath quote mentions hayseed or hayseeder, rustic, and hayback.
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>Regards,
>David
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>barnhart at highlands.com
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>Paul Johnston <paul.johnston at wmich.edu> on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 at 5:00
>PM -0500 wrote:
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>>I've heard the expression to refer to anyone from SE New England,
>>particularly around Providence, Fall River or New Bedford.  I've also
>>heard
>>of the SE New England dialect called "Swamp Yankee" by Bostonians, though
>>the people of the area concerned regard the term as derogatory.
>>
>>Paul Johnston
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>>Subject: "swamp yankee"
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>>> A question from another list:
>>> "-I am reading a book by David Handler, set in Connecticut,
>>> that refers to several of the characters as swamp yankees.  My husband
>>was
>>> born in Connecticut, not far from where the story is set, but this is
>>not
>>> a phrase he is familiar with."
>>>
>>> Reading the same book as this poster, I simply assumed a reference to
>>the
>>> poor, landless, powerless class.  Does the phrase have some more
>>particular
>>> meaning?
>>>
>>> A. Murie
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