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.

[StoneColdGOP]

Youse should see this.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

35% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee! Quit spittin' in the bubbler, pass the sub sandwich and take the frontage road to the Beer Depot! :)

[groanup]

My wife and I both: 92% Southern. (by the grace of G-d).

[TASMANIANRED]

76% Dixie. I had to skip the Toilet Paper One, My Mother would have killed me.

[onja]

Are you sure you "ain't" in any way a Dixie.

[onja]

My stepmom was 91%Dixie.

[wimpycat]

Well, yes. I'm eighth generation North Carolinian. My Grands were here before the state or nation was.

Same here. Growing up in a military town bleached out a lot of southernisms, but I'm still 78% Southern. I bet you also had a problem with the answer about drive-thru liquor stores. I totally guessed at it, because we don't have any drive-thru liquor stores in NC (that I know of), but it says "brew-thru" is common to VA and NC.

[hobson]

81% Dixie! My husband is a descendant of Jefferson Davis and he only got 75% Dixie. HA!

[Wneighbor]

Oops... I'm 90% Dixie. Any surprises there? LOL I wanna know where my other 10% went. And on two of those questions they didn't even offer the right answer for Texas!!!!

[TASMANIANRED]

I had a niece from Oregon come stay with me for a while.

She referred to something as being "spendy". The first time I didn't know what she was talking about.

The second time I figured out she was referencing something "expensive".

They could have figured this out a lot quicker.

1) What are grits?
2)Do you eat them with milk and sugar, or cheese?

[kalee]

100% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father?

[msdrby]

87% (Dixie). Did you have any Confederate ancestors?

[wimpycat]

For your edification.

[iconoclast]

44%, barely Yankee?

[TASMANIANRED]

A interesting cultural thing is in the process of happening.

The liberals with all their jaw flapping about Jesusland and their condescension are turning a huge chunk of the country into southerners.

Anything in flyover country is the new South.

Being proud of being a Yankee is tantamount to being proud of being a Liberal.

[wimpycat]

[k2blader]

"53% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category."

*LOL*

I'm not from the continent so it makes sense.

[msdrby]

hey there wneighbor!

I got 87% which sounds about right, since my granddaddy was from Pennsylvania (he got to Texas soon as he could).

[TASMANIANRED]

I went to Wisconsin a few years ago. I had to get my relatively unaccented husband to order in a restaurant for me. They acted like it was a different language.

[BraveMan]

33% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee.