Damnyankee

"Dammyankee" was a term for citizens of the United States, widely used by Confederates in spoken languague at least since the time of the War of Secession. As clearly evident, it started as a pejorative term ("Damm Yankee") expressing the deep hostily felt towards the US and its citizens. However, with the passage of time it on some occasions lost that connotation and became merely descriptive, especially when used by Blacks in the Confederacy who picked up the term from their White neighbors. For example, Jonathan Moss, when wandering the Confederate countryside in the companyu of Black gurrilas, heard an old Black sharecropper state "Dammyankees is okay", the speaker seeing nothing self-contradictory in this statement.