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Yankee or Dixie Quiz
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Posted on 03/27/2012 11:19:22 AM PDT by navysealdad

The higher your score, the deeper from the South you are coming.

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To: navysealdad

100% Yankee in North Carolina.


21 posted on 03/27/2012 11:51:14 AM PDT by duckman (Go Newt...)
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To: navysealdad; casinva; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
100% Dixie. Is General Lee your grandfather?!

I'm originally from Pennsylvania but have obviously assimilated well in my over five decades south of the Mason-Dixon line. I thought for sure that "creek" would have tripped me up since I can't shake the old habit of calling it "crick". Likewise "iron" is still "arn" to me -- but that's also common in east Tennessee.

One Texas/Southern idiom that came natural to me is "fixin' to". Near the West Virginia border where I was raised, that was fairly common and I used it since childhood. Now, I'm fixin' to hit the post button.

22 posted on 03/27/2012 11:52:13 AM PDT by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: navysealdad
57% Dixie which is about right. My Dad's side had a solid Southern background with a Grapes of Wrath “Going to California” ending. My Mom's side were from Minnesota.
23 posted on 03/27/2012 11:52:39 AM PDT by NavyCanDo (You can take an idiot out of Chicago, but you canÂ’t take the Chicago out of an idiot!)
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To: re_nortex

94% Dixie. Is General Lee your grandfather?!

Texas isn’t quite southern.


24 posted on 03/27/2012 12:00:17 PM PDT by SuzyQue
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To: navysealdad

6% Dixie. Need help digging out of the snow?


25 posted on 03/27/2012 12:02:15 PM PDT by RitchieAprile
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To: navysealdad

30% Dixi

I must say, that was more accurate than I thought it’d be. But for the record, correct pronunciation of “caramel” is not relative to your region. Like “often,” it is not said how it’s written. “Car-a-mel” is simply wrong.


26 posted on 03/27/2012 12:03:03 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: navysealdad

100% Dixie. Is General Lee your grandfather?!

Better be with my name.............


27 posted on 03/27/2012 12:03:12 PM PDT by BubbaJunebug
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To: navysealdad

43% Barely in Yankeedom. That would be right since I am in Canada.


28 posted on 03/27/2012 12:04:28 PM PDT by xp38
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To: navysealdad

8% dixie


29 posted on 03/27/2012 12:08:42 PM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: Thane_Banquo

My result was close to yours, 41% Dixie. I live in Illinois, and I’ve also lived in California, Colorado, Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Guam, Japan, Ohio, and Iraq.


30 posted on 03/27/2012 12:12:03 PM PDT by PhilCollins
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To: navysealdad

On standard test: 100% Dixie. Is General Lee your grandfather?!
On Advanced Test: 100% Dixie. Is General Lee your grandfather?!


31 posted on 03/27/2012 12:13:53 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (End Obama's War On Freedom.)
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To: navysealdad

It appears to be more of a rural/urban test to me.


32 posted on 03/27/2012 12:24:26 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: re_nortex

I clocked a 35 percent Dixie.
So, there it is...


33 posted on 03/27/2012 12:24:33 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Beware the Sweater Vest)
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To: navysealdad

67% Yankee on basic test, 79% [or thereabouts] Yankee on the advanced test. One unswered question, re: form of greeting. No availabel choice for “ How You doin’?”


34 posted on 03/27/2012 12:34:50 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: navysealdad

62% Dixie. Well under the Mason-Dixon Line


35 posted on 03/27/2012 12:35:23 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: NCDave

90% Dixie for me


36 posted on 03/27/2012 12:35:42 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: navysealdad

100% Dixie. Is General Lee your grandfather?!

Born and bred.


37 posted on 03/27/2012 12:36:11 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: navysealdad

Is it possible to have a Yankee head and a Dixie heart?


38 posted on 03/27/2012 12:40:39 PM PDT by Miss Behave (All ways, always.)
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To: navysealdad

What?!? Just 75% Dixie?!? I don’t think so unless you consider Texas as more western than southern. I have to strongly disagree with at least one of the answers.

“Tp-ing” is Texan, not “wrapping.” No, you tp a house and you wrap a present.


39 posted on 03/27/2012 12:41:36 PM PDT by bgill
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To: PzLdr
The preferred form of salutation is "hey".

As in: "Hey, Bubba, how's Momma 'n them?"

40 posted on 03/27/2012 12:44:11 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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