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Look at it like this:

Y'all:  you're a hick and we can be friends
You guys:  you're a yankee and we can be friends
Youse guys:  you're weird and you're not welcome at my crawfish boil

Haha, I almost clarified this in my previous post, but didn't take the time.

To me, "yankee" means "not a Southerner" and I don't consider it to be an offensive term at all.

"Hick" is an offensive term, but not synonymous to "Southerner", at least to me. A hick is... a hick. I live among many in rural Iowa.

Now, if a Southerner uses yankee as a derogatory term, they're most likely a hick.

Haha, I almost clarified this in my previous post, but didn't take the time.

To me, "yankee" means "not a Southerner" and I don't consider it to be an offensive term at all.

"Hick" is an offensive term, but not synonymous to "Southerner", at least to me. A hick is... a hick. I live among many in rural Iowa.

Now, if a Southerner uses yankee as a derogatory term, they're most likely a hick.

Well I wouldn't say I use it as a derogatory term, it's just a distinction that says, "Bless your heart, I acknowledge that you weren't fortunate enough to be born as a Southerner and although you're clearly not like us, we can still be friends."

Well I wouldn't say I use it as a derogatory term, it's just a distinction that says, "Bless your heart, I acknowledge that you weren't fortunate enough to be born as a Southerner and although you're clearly not like us, we can still be friends."

That sounds like something a friendly hick might say. 

Yeah, we weren't allowed to say y'all or ain't. Broken English.

I ain't got time for yall's silly Broken English rules.  

A quirk I've noticed about myself is I won't use "ain't" when typing, but I use it while speaking all the time.  And I've gone back and forth using "y'all" and "you guys" in writing, but pretty much exclusively say "y'all" when talking.  

That always reminds me of my 6th grade English teacher giving us a discourse one day on how she had no idea how the phrase "fixing to" came to mean "about to."  She traced several other Southern colloquialisms from their 'proper' English to how they came to be said how we say them.  But regarding "fixing to do this or that," she had no idea and said it was just a thing we say. 

Some of the oldest usages are along the lines of "set one's eye or mind on something" which can also be said as  "fix one's eye or mind on something."  And some later usages involve the idea of "put in order" or "prepare" or "arrange."  So "fixing to" then evolved as a variant of "preparing to."

Philology nerd. 

There are very few ways in which I am not a nerd.  My nerd credentials are stronger than pretty much every single person I've ever known or encountered.