Word: yankeeland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bang-up day in tiny (pop. 1,827) Brandon, Miss. Back from her triumphs in Yankeeland, back for the flashbulbs, the high-school bands, the parades and the sorghum-sweet welcome, came the local girl who had made good: willowy, winsome Mary Ann Mobley, 21, Miss America of 1958. Throughout the weekend celebrations in Jackson, Vicksburg and Brandon, Mary Ann smiled graciously, accepted tokens of esteem (including TV sets and a dozen hams), broke down when she saw that Brandon had renamed Main Street as Mary Ann Brive...
...never been seen either on TV or outside Texas. Last week, to stir the nation's interest in the new contender for the heavyweight crown (he is due to fight Champion Floyd Patterson in Los Angeles on Aug. 18), TelePrompTer Corp. offered a Texas junket to some of Yankeeland's top sportswriters. What the ringside pros saw left them happy, dazed, full of copy, and fat pigeons for TelePrompTer's pressagents...
...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. It was a Red dead sea full of poor fish dreaming of a bookless future. The biggest catch in it was Upton Sinclair, most renowned of muckrakers. whose novel The Jungle had assaulted the citadels of the Chicago meatpackers with the near-violence of a near-vegetarian. The book had been intended as an attack on porkpacking capitalists; actually it made the U.S. not sick...
Horrified to read your nasty "Anglo-Saxon Migration" in the March 18 issue. Don't you realize that these hillbillies are bringing the precious "Southern way of life" to unenlightened Yankeeland...
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