Re:there are signs (Score 1)

I've lived in New England all my life, and I've never heard that someone from Maine is a 'Yankee'. Heard them called plenty of other things (more than occasionally derogatory), but not 'Yankee'. 'Yankee' is a derogatory term for an American, from the colonial days; or a derogatory term for a northerner, said by a southerner; or a member of the ball club.