He's in what you might like to call "Yankee" land, but he's getting some real "down home" excellent hospitality you would probably not think possible up here in the North!!! :) :) :)

Btw, this part of what you like to refer as "Yankee land" is known to most intelligent folks who don't hold any grudges as PENNSYLVANIA!!!

I may have been born and bred in New York City, but that doesn't mean that I automatically assume that anyone from the South is NOT an American like I am,or feel the need to disrespect my Southern neighbors, because some folks from these parts would take your remarks that rustles these fine folks up here as being the same as "Yankees" as being mighty offensive!!!

Now I'm not one of them but, I know quite a few folks in PENNSYLVANIA as well as a lot of other parts of the North who take issue with your labeling them with the use of the word!!!! Do you know what the news people call the folks here in Pennsylvania between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh which is all of the fine folks who live in between one end of the state and the other end??? People who think that they're from Alabama and think that everyone else should live the same way which btw, makes me feel like these news folks should keep their opinions to themselves because all they're doing is labeling whole bunches of folks without even knowing how each of them actually are. :( :( :(

And even though they're my favorite baseball team, doesn't mean that everyone here doesn't mind being called a "Yankee!!!" In fact, some might take real offense to being called that name, or designating their own locale as being a part of so-called "Yankee land" And I've been living here in PENNSYLVANIA long enough to recognize that a good portion of these folks around here take real issue being called anything other than PENNSYLVANIANS!!! Especially "Yankees!"

I personally consider it a compliment being called a "Yankee" even though my own family roots are more "Southern" than probably anyone else in here since my own family blood is made up of being half Cuban, and the other half being Dominican via the the collision of two cultures known as the Spanish Empire and the Taino Native Peoples of the Orinonco basin of South America that runs through Colombia and Venezuela who migrated to the islands of both Cuba as well as Hispaniola way before a single European ever knew there were another 2 continents on the other side of the Atlantic ocean awaiting their exploration and eventual conquest to the inevitable independence we see today. :) :) :)

Now the last time I looked at a map of the Western Hemisphere, it revealed to me that these places I just mentioned are situated where those two countries as well as the first two countries I mentioned are located further south than any other state in the continental United States!!! :) :) :) So you would think that I might just be a tad offended, but I'm not at all offended by being associated with the term "Yankees" even though I'm more of a "Southern boy" than most folks in here care to even realize!!! :) :) :) Now some folks, and I mean a whole lot of folks from PENNSYLVANIA just might get offended at you for labeling them as being "Yankees," but I'm not at all. I only take offense towards you labeling these fine folks from PENNSYLVANIA who have given me a second chance of life, and have consistently treated me with an enormous amount of respect as well as allowing me to maintain my own dignity of being a born and bred New Yorker who now proudly resides in SOUTH WESTERN PENNSYLVANNIA as being nothing more than folks who live in "Yankee land" :( :( :(

Respectfully,
Henry

We have averaged 105 hrs per week since I have been here.