Wikipedia has a pretty good definition:
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Swamp Yankee is a colloquialism that has a variety of meanings. Generally, it refers to Yankees or WASPs (northeasterners with colonial ancestry) from rural Rhode Island and nearby eastern Connecticut and southeastern Massachusetts. The term "Yankee" connotes urbane industriousness, while the term "Swamp Yankee" signifies a more countrified, stubborn, independent and less refined subtype.
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Essentially a New England hick with agricultural roots. When my family settled here in the 1630's the CT River Valley was
THE place to farm which is why we're a bit further west. Although a couple hundred years ago we decided that farming in southern New England could be a ***** and supplying farmers was a better, more reliable alternative to trying to figure out and count on Mother Nature for a living.
I'm going to make it a mission to reclaim the Northeast as Swamp Yankee country from the "Rednecks." Everytime I see a truck with a New England license plate and a "redneck" sticker of some sort I cringe. We're Swamp Yankees dammit!
