'@Karen'
But what I'm saying is IN the articles. The modern sense is the same as the historic one, that even in the 18th century it was used generally to refer to New Englanders specifically, which really hasn't changed much over the years inside America. The change if any is that farther away from New England the term gets applied to "Northerners" in general by Southerners.
If the earliest references are to New Englanders then that comes back to the possible Dutch origin of the term, because New Amsterdam and the Puritan colonies brushed right up against each-other in a vague zone around western Connecticut.
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'@Karen'
But what I'm saying is IN the articles. The modern sense is the same as the historic one, that even in the 18th century it was used generally to refer to New Englanders specifically, which really hasn't changed much over the years inside America. The change if any is that farther away from New England the term gets applied to "Northerners" in general by Southerners.
If the earliest references are to New Englanders then that comes back to the possible Dutch origin of the term, because New Amsterdam and the Puritan colonies brushed right up against each-other in a vague zone around western Connecticut.