While Southerners and Texans may gripe about yankees, it has been my experience, and custom, to keep it to our southern selves. I was raised in the strict virtues of being a Southern(Texas) Gentleman (had I not, I would have been disciplined!), and while I have many times griped about yankees, I would not do it to them directly. Five generations of watching Yankees come to the south, griping about how things were back north, then trying to change our ways, had bred animosity in much of my family. But far be it from me to not be friendly to all, until I learn their ilk. I judge a person by their behavior, not their birthplace. I have had the great pleasure of calling many a Yankee friend and even brother. Though I now call Colorado home, I remain, quite proudly, a Southern Gentleman. Now if we could just get these retched californians out of here...;)