Yankee or Dixie?

“Check on your dialect and see if you might have crossed over to the "other side"! Simply click on the correct answer. As you go, the quiz will automatically interpret each answer to show you what your answer implies about you. When you are done, press Compute My Score. Your score will be calculated as a percentage: 0% is pure Yankee and 100% is pure Dixie.

http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/yankee_dixie_quiz.html”

“71% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score!

What a surprise!!! LOL”

“My Score:

48% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

pretty accurate”

“90% (Dixie). Did you have any Confederate ancestors?

If I can't score pure Dixie, who the hell can?”

“I got 48 percent (barely Yankee), but some of them there pronunciations is common around these here parts of Philly Yankeedom, y'all!”

“43% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

I grew up in Indiana with a mother who was raised in the South. I got a good mix of Yankee and Dixie in my dialect!”

“54% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.”

“Very funny. I'm 41% Yankee, but most of my responses were midwesterner/ Michigan specific.”

“50% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.”

“Honestly ny responses depend on the kind of crowd I'm in.”

“treebait - I got 52% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category and many of my responses were specific to Midwest, Great Lakes and Michigan. Hmmmm....”

“71 % (dixie) strong southern score”

“7. How do you address a group of people?

In New Jersey dialect, that would be "Hey mother#&%!$ers!"

That wasn't one of the choices.”

“What's up with that Tarabull? (banjo music playing) I got 41% Yankee like treebait did!”

“44% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.”

“57% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.”

“45% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.
I had a few “No bias” such as creek, I use both pronunciations.
last edited: 3/27/06 4:13:35 PM”

“I think saying "soda" biased me towards the south, or something.”

“54% Dixie (knew I stayed in Virginia too damn long).”

“It did Tara. You don't call it pop?”

“It's always been called soda in Upstate NY, except maybe near the PA boarder.”

“I thought pop was a southern thing. I grew up in northern New Jersey and no one ever said pop. I'm pretty sure calling it pop would have gotten one beat up.”

“tara - that didn't do it, we call all dark colored carbonated beverages coke. How the heck did WK score higher than me for Dixie?”

“LMAO.

In the south, it is Coke.

I don't care if it's clear, orange, grape or cream soda, it is still a "coke".”

“In the north we call something else Coke.”

“I defer to chili, he's right.

Do you want a coke?
Sure, whatcha got?
coke, diet coke, sprite, or mtn dew.
I'll take a Mtn. Dew.

That's typical down here.”

“52% Dixie! Yahooooo! I'd rather be associated with the south than the north even though I'm midwest.”

“How did I score that high?!?!?!

I answered everything truthfully and the comments that (popped), he he he he he he - up all said Great Lakes region or midwest.

I don't think it added right.”

“Perhaps Michigan and other Midwest type accents are considered Dixie rather than Yankee... ?”

“Most of mine were very midwest/great lakes pacific, as woll . Although, I nearly clicked on a few of da W. PA/picksburg pacific ones n'at. Geez, I haven't even lived here fer a year yet and I'm starting to think like a picksburger n'at. Seriously, though...I might ak shooly end up replacing y'alls wit yinz in my vernacular.

www.pittsburghese.com”

“84% Dixie”

“46% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.”

“40% yankee”

“45% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.”

“mapsNmammals, be careful of the slippy ice.”

“We haven't had much for slippy roads this year. The roads have been heavily salted to the point that if you roll down the windows in your car on a warm day, the caustic salt dust burns in the lungs.

Later. I have to redd up the hahse or else the nebby neighbors will call the landlord on me.”

“85% (Dixie). Did you have any Confederate ancestors?

...and I'm from California!

...excuse me while I go fukc a goat.”

“39% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee.

But I say Y'all!”

“57% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category. I thought I'd be mostly Yankee, but balanced. No one who listened to me talk would take me for a Southerner (though I don't think I reek of New England). I do say "y'all" even at work, but I never use it to mean one person, which I take as the real benchmark.

Mom's from Texas (born in Dallas, grew up mostly in Austin), Dad's from Ohio (just North of Columbus - I had lots of midwest answers ) - but except for a few years in Texas for college, I've been in New England or out of the country all my life. I guess my Mom's dislike for the Boston accent and some of the Boston dialect had an influence.”

“Hmm,, I wonder how accurate this test is, I only scored 37% and nearly all my answers were north specific( I've lived in New England my whole life and haven't traveled south of New Jersy, by the way).I's even funnier that I changed a few answers to fit with some of the other possible answers used locally and it went to 49% .I guess we must have moved the region and nobody was told.”

“Swamp - I'm not impressed with the test either. Still, it was fun.”

“AMERICAN”

“70% Dixie...I feel so dirty.

I picked "soda" too, and it said "Used heavily in northeast US and California."”

“And are they saying everyone in the US fits into one of those two categories?? I thought Yankee was strictly Northeastern and Dixie was just Southeastern. Obviously they considered the way Midwesterners and Californians speak, so it seems like they're trying to fit those into one or the other...”

“52% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.

It is amazing that I barely scored Dixie. The tiny town I grew up in never had any yankees. Most families had been living there for generations. I would say I was 15 or 16 before I ever met a yankee. I never had any yankee friends till I entered the military. Growing up in a small southern town has its positives but it does little to prepare you socially. The real world hits you like a ton of bricks when you step out into it. The first few years for me out in the real world, it was hard for me to adapt to the fast talkers and fast pace outside of Maurepas, Louisiana. Variety though is the spice of life.”

“49% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

woooo hooooooooo.........


maybe NW Ohio isn't as far North as I thought!!!!!”

“"(though I don't think I reek of New England)."
pedxing

Dat's a fact!!

60%(Dixie) Barely into the Dixie category
That's about right, Geo(48%) and I live on either side of the Mason Dixon Line and within the Scrapple Zone.
There is a hell of a lot of southern influence in the D.C./Baltimore area.....less now with increasing international presence.
last edited: 3/28/06 7:04:03 AM”

“Damnable Govt Firewalls and Filters are getting more screwy by the minute....”

“65% Dixie. Huh? I am from Minnesota originally!”

“54% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.

My dad was from Pennsyvania and my mom from a dirt farm in rural North Carolina. I grew up in a small military oriented town in coastal North Carolina where I knew people from just about every state in the US and many places abroad. I am not surprised that I am middle of the road.”