"swamp yankee"

[Barnhart]

Somewhat earliers:

1935 May 26 _The New York Times_ (ProQuest Hist) BR6  Hookerstown is a
good-sized New England mill city.  Mr. Walsh has given a fair picture of
the city and its history.  Little Dublin is the factory section; its name
harking back to the time when Irish immigrants drove the "Swamp Yankees"
out, forcing them up or (as Mr. Walsh does not seem to know) down the
economic scale.

I've found nothing from the 19th century.

Regards,
David

barnhart at highlands.com

Barnhart writes:


>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).
>
>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.'
>
>Kurath quote mentions hayseed or hayseeder, rustic, and hayback.
>
>Regards,
>David
>
>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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>>Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 10:58 AM
>>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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