Yankee or Dixie? Take the Quiz

Yankee or Dixie ^

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

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.

• Do not change your answer during the test as it will ruin the score. You may do this after scoring is calculated to see the other answers.
• If you make a mistake, hit Clear below to restart the test!
• I regret that I do not have time to entertain discussions about this test or negotiate changes. It is provided strictly as-is and for entertainment purposes only.
• Be aware that television entertainment has a lot of northern dialect in it. This will have more of an influence on you than you expect.
• This test is based on results from the Harvard Computer Society Dialect Survey of 30788 respondents.

[JohnBDay]

45% (Yankee)

[fredhead]

78% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score!

I'm shocked!!! I live in VA, originally from NC with roots in TN on my Mom's side, and only a 78%?

Shows you what 20 years in the Navy around all those Yankees did to me.

[Krodg]

53% dixie. I guess cause I'm from southern Ohio(O-hi-ya)

LOL...I was born and raised in southern Ohio and I have never heard anyone pronounce it like that. Where are you from?

My score...

89% (Dixie).

[cjshapi]

I'd weigh 800 lbs if I lived in the south. That tea is so hard to turn down. Good stuff.

And the pralines I had in Atlanta once were enough to make you cry. We don't get that stuff up here.

[Junior]

If it makes you feel better, I only scored a 71%. Seems travelling in my early life has had a lasting effect upon me.

[bk1000]

89% Dixie on the first try, y'all.

[headsonpikes]

I got 60% Dixie, and I'm a Canuck!

With a Northern Canadian accent. ;^)

[Junior]

And the pralines I had in Atlanta once were enough to make you cry.

That bad, huh?

[cjshapi]

Oh no. That good.

[ezo4]

I went back again and took it again choosing even more eastern and northern phrases on some and I got 39%. Strange.

The first time most all of them were dead on where I grew up. Wisconsin Great Lakes region

I also noticed that they apparently only have drive through liquor stores in the south. :o)

[fredhead]

Got you beat. 10th generation North Carolinian. Family's been in Carteret County since the 1720's.

Sadly, I now live in VA.

[heylady]

"Yeh're a wicked bad drivah"

Now is "wicked " only used as an adjective in New England?

[spodefly]

81% (Dixie). Did you have any Confederate ancestors?

Yep. All of 'em.

[kitkat]

I got 53% Dixie which is interesting because I'm born and raised in Western New York. Now if they'd asked about roof, milk, greasy or wafffle, we might have gotten different scores.

[AnAmericanMother]

NOW what, I say WHAT is goin' on hyah?

I'm barely over 50 percent . . . and my last Yankee ancestor moved south in 1820. I've got more Confederate ancestors than Carter has little liver pills . . .

[Rytwyng]

This test is inaccurate.

10 of my responses were not regionally specific
6 were decidedly northern (Great Lakes, Northeast, Penns., etc)
Only 4 were distictly Southern.

Yet it called me 61% Dixie. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)

[UPcrawfish]

81% Dixie...

Been in Nebraska too long - affected my score negatively..

[trisham]

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

[jocon307]

"Mischief Night was like Christmas when I was a kid..."

Interestingly a NY/NJ phrase!

[NavyCanDo]

Yahoo! 61% Dixie. Not bad for a guy born in Western Washington. But 2 generations back my family was 100% Arkansas country boys. Some of it must still be in my blood.