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The [[Ivy League]] universities and "[[Little Ivies]]" liberal arts colleges, particularly Harvard and Yale, remained bastions of old Yankee culture until well after World War II.   

The [[Ivy League]] universities and "[[Little Ivies]]" liberal arts colleges, particularly Harvard and Yale, remained bastions of old Yankee culture until well after World War II.   

[[Calvin Coolidge]] was a striking example of the Yankee type. Coolidge moved from rural Vermont to urban Massachusetts, and was educated at [[Amherst College]]. Yet his flint-faced unprepossessing ways and terse rural speech proved politically attractive: "That Yankee twang will be worth a hundred thousand votes", explained one Republican leader.<ref>William Allen White, ''A Puritan in Babylon: The Story of Calvin Coolidge'' (1938) p. 122.</ref>  Coolidge's laconic ways and dry humor was characteristic of stereotypical rural "Yankee humor" at the turn of the twentieth century.<ref>Arthur George Crandall,[http://books.google.com/books?id=AhXdAf0lBqwC&pg=PA13&dq=%22new+england+joke+lore%22 "New England Joke Lore: The Tonic of Yankee Humor"], (F.A. Davis Company, 1922).</ref>

[[Calvin Coolidge]] was a striking example of the Yankee type. Coolidge moved from rural Vermont to urban Massachusetts, and was educated at [[Amherst College]]. Yet his flint-faced unprepossessing ways and terse rural speech proved politically attractive: "That Yankee twang will be worth a hundred thousand votes", explained one Republican leader.<ref>William Allen White, ''A Puritan in Babylon: The Story of Calvin Coolidge'' (1938) p. 122.</ref>  Coolidge's laconic ways and dry humor was characteristic of stereotypical rural "Yankee humor" at the turn of the twentieth century.<ref>Arthur George Crandall,[https://books.google.com/books?id=AhXdAf0lBqwC&pg=PA13&dq=%22new+england+joke+lore%22 "New England Joke Lore: The Tonic of Yankee Humor"], (F.A. Davis Company, 1922).</ref>

The fictional character [[Thurston Howell III]] of [[Gilligan's Island]], a graduate of [[Harvard University]], typifies the old Yankee elite in a comical way.   

The fictional character [[Thurston Howell III]] of [[Gilligan's Island]], a graduate of [[Harvard University]], typifies the old Yankee elite in a comical way.   

* Mathews, Mitford M. ''A Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles'' (1951) pp 1896 ff for elaborate detail

* Mathews, Mitford M. ''A Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles'' (1951) pp 1896 ff for elaborate detail

*Ruth Schell, "Swamp Yankee", ''American Speech'', 1963, Volume 38, No.2 (The [[American Dialect Society]], Published by Duke University Press ), pg. 121–123. accessed through [[JSTOR]]

*Ruth Schell, "Swamp Yankee", ''American Speech'', 1963, Volume 38, No.2 (The [[American Dialect Society]], Published by Duke University Press ), pg. 121–123. accessed through [[JSTOR]]

* Oscar G. Sonneck. ''Report on "the Star-Spangled Banner" "Hail Columbia" "America" "Yankee Doodle"'' (1909) [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0486222373&id=dSqWAvMJbuYC&pg=PA83&lpg=PA83&dq=yankee+etymology&sig=g_ntd2CZ3d0zV4V3frgrgZP9s-c  pp 83ff online]

* Oscar G. Sonneck. ''Report on "the Star-Spangled Banner" "Hail Columbia" "America" "Yankee Doodle"'' (1909) [https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0486222373&id=dSqWAvMJbuYC&pg=PA83&lpg=PA83&dq=yankee+etymology&sig=g_ntd2CZ3d0zV4V3frgrgZP9s-c  pp 83ff online]

* [http://www.bartleby.com/61/60/Y0006000.html ''The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language:'' Fourth Edition]

* [http://www.bartleby.com/61/60/Y0006000.html ''The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language:'' Fourth Edition]