[Note: this posting is extemely tongue in cheek and no one should take offense--its mostly the impressions of a northerner who moved south 16 years ago and has fun joining in and having fun with those who still live in the snow belt]
No offense intended there, Donald Duck from Ohio, but you question why Pepsi is a yankee drink and submit that pepsi is popular in Ohio as your proof. Now, check me if I'm wrong, but Ohio did not join the Confederacy, did it? You'd have to head on down the ohio river and cross it into Kentucky to be in the South. Sure, sure, Cincinnati's airport is in Kentucky--but Ohio is yankee because it is not the SOUTH. At grad school in Looziana one of my classmates understood his place in the world and introduced himself as a yankee from Indiana.
Other form of evidence that any jury in the south would agree with--and apologies to my neighbor here in Georgia, Jeff Foxworthy: If your state school plays Big 10 Football, you might be a Yankee.

If your state school has a varsity ice hockey team, you might be a yankee. If you put the emphasis on the second syllable of the word in-SUR-ance, instead of the first syllable, IN-sur-ance, you might be a yankee. If your state had major league baseball before the Johnson administration, you might be a yankee.
okay, that's enough fun and teasin'--Coke's HQ is across the street from Georgia Tech and walking distance to the Varsity, the world's largest drive in and home of the worlds best chili dawgs, and Pepsi's HQ is in westchester County, NEW YORK. Exactly what part of the south is Westchester County, New York?
