• FirstCircle@lemmy.ml
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    18 hours ago

    FWIW the term was in common use in Vermont when I was growing up, and was used to refer to Vermonters who wintered anywhere in the U.S. south. It was kind of a generic term though and could have referred to Canadians too, and to people with other southern nesting sites outside of the U.S.