I'll start...

I basically lived most of my life in various parts of New York. Came down to Texas, wound up on this forum, and at the time was one of the very few "Yankees" on here. I was referred to as "damn Yankee" a couple of times and adopted it.

Technically a Damn Yankee refers to a Yankee (northener - typically New England area) who moves South and stays. So far that part is true too...