Well of course, however, you won't hear an American calling themselves a 'Yank' unless they are from the north and no one will call themselves a Virginian unless they are from Virginia. The derogative terms of course are fairly common south of the Texas border all the way to the tip of South America :o)


>There are other names that can be used instead, in particular in Argentina we use Estadounidense, although with exceptions
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjectives_for_U.S._citizens