Swamp Yankee is a colloquial term for rural New Englanders who are mainly of colonial English descent and Protestant background. The term "Yankee" carries connotations of urbane industriousness and the Protestant work ethic, while "Swamp Yankee" suggests a more countrified, stubborn, independent, and less-refined sub-type.
- ^ ED. Walters, "Coon Hounds and Coon Hunting," Hunter-Trader-Trapper, Volume 50 (1925), p. 49-50 (accessible on Google Books)