Yankeeland

American  

[yang-kee-land] / ˈyæŋ kiˌlænd /

noun

1. Chiefly Southern U.S. the northern states of the U.S.

2. Chiefly British. the U.S.

3. Chiefly Northern U.S. New England.

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Etymology

Origin of Yankeeland

An Americanism dating back to 1780–90; Yankee + land

Example Sentences

Keller continued the Yankeeland breeding farm started by his late father, Charles Keller Jr., the New York Yankees outfielder who played alongside Joe DiMaggio.

From Washington Times • Jul. 3, 2016

For conspiracy theorists in the Bronx, the bloody sock was the ketchup sock—a kind of paranoid delusion in Yankeeland that only made the whole thing sweeter for Sox fans.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 21, 2016

More entertaining than the adjective search is monitoring the level of alarm in Yankeeland, with the decidedly un-savior-like A. J. Burnett now being counted on to save the franchise.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2010

In the heart of Yankeeland, where Mary Craig Kimbrough went to Miss Finch's school in Manhattan, all sorts of things other than magnolia hung heavy in the air, notably suffragists, single-taxers and Socialists.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Spurgeon of Yankeeland goes on to speak about the "internal evidence" of the Bible.

From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)