...y the Potomac and the James, of which Richmond was the political center. We of the North, especially we of New England, were Yankees; but a Virginian was that, and nothing else. I have heard of a New England er, of a Green Mountain boy, of a Rhode Islander, of a Nutmeg, of a Blue-nose even, but never of a Massachusettensian. The word somehow does not lend itself to the mouth, any more than the thought ...