People should leave "y'all" alone. It doesn't belong to anyone. It is a natural contraction of "you" and "all" that several cultures have independently produced as part of their vernacular.
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I am a Yankee from a state with a Canadian border.
I started saying y'all because it's ungendered!
What about you'ins?
And now we wait for the inevitable "th'all", just to distinguish from the ever more popular singular they
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