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.

[aberaussie]

I would *love* to be a part of the UDC, but I am not sure how to go about it and how much time it will take for me to prove my ancestry.

[msdrby]

Yep, all my life, you ask for iced tea, they give you iced tea. Not the sweet abomination you find in Georgia. In Texas, you get to put your own sugar in it.

When was in Geogria, it was like tea-koolaid.

[TexasCowboy]

In cafes in Texas, I've seen a lot of people stirring the grits around on their plates, at first trying to figure out what in the heck they are, then deciding they were some sort of Southern cereal, dousing them with sugar and asking the passing waitress for some cream. In the parking lot I will invariably see a license plate from Michigan or some other Yankee state.

When I think of a warm spring Sunday afternoon when the trees are in full leaf and bloom, I think of a long table covered with a checkerboard tablecloth under a big liveoak tree with a big platter of pan fried chicken occupying center stage.

When I'm cleaning my rifles I notice I unconsciously do a lot of caressing and rubbing. It's not a sexual thing, just a deep love of firearms.

I never remember a time when I'd rather drive a car than a pickup truck.

Magnolias, to me, are probably the most beautiful tree God created, especially covered in huge white blooms.

In Texas, there are rules of the country roads, and they vary in each locale. Some places it's customary to stick up two fingers when you pass; in others, a full hand wave marks you as "a good ol' boy".

[TexasCowboy]

"When was in Geogria, it was like tea-koolaid."

YUUUUUUCKK!!!

[Twinkie]

91% Dixie. Is General Lee your father?

(That was my score.)

[PigRigger]

Yeah, live on Long Island. Out in eastern sections of the Island they have that distinct Bostonian New England accent as well.

Gotta go, it's time to "paak the kaar" in the garage....

[Ocracoke]

Same as mine, 83%. All my relatives are southern.

All southern-all the time.

[Lionround]

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

[Twinkie]

My NC ancestors are Abraham and Mourning (Monie) Denton, several great grandparents' back. Abraham was one of the signers of the Rowan Resolves, the precursor to the Declaration of Independence. I think Abraham and that bunch of guys were in the throes of realization that they were on the brink of revolution. I'm sure they went through all the inner conflicts imaginable before they finally had to acknowledge that , alas, the Mother Country didn't hold the "colonies" in all that much esteem.

[Ocracoke]

Yep! At's a nice'n.

[rwfromkansas]

Dang it.

I don't like this.

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

I wanted to be Dixie.

[rwfromkansas]

On the other hand, I don't think the test is very good for this region and midwest. We borrow a lot from the south and the north.

They should have added words like wash, fridge etc. Very limited test.

[rwfromkansas]

I did not know there was a name for the night before Halloween.

[gitmo]

99% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father?

[rwfromkansas]

Pop is the drink. It is pronounced 'ant,' and it is a sub.

[Twinkie]

The toilet papering thing is actually a giving act. I have heard of people who go out after it dries out and collect the bounty and put it in a basket for later use in the toilet (outhouse for all you Yankees and low-scorers on the test). I grew up with a toilet. That's what we called it. We used the Sears and Roebuck catalog torn off page by page as you needed it. I wish someone would have given us a tree full of toilet tissue (that's what we called that, too, when we had the occasion to call it anything). The toilet was a strictly business place. You were in and out so fast the wasps and snakes couldn't react fast enough to get you.

[rwfromkansas]

Pop is the drink. It is pronounced 'ant,' and it is a sub.

[TexasCowboy]

"We used the Sears and Roebuck catalog torn off page by page as you needed it."

Did you ever notice the boys and men saved the lingerie pages until last?
For one thing, a lot of them were glossy, and didn't serve the purpose real well.

'Course, the main reason was that was the closest thing to Playboy we had!

[Knitting A Conundrum]

You makin' me hungry...nuttn like a fried shrimp po boy and a Barqs on a Friday noon to make the week know it's well done.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Hey, I thought col'drink was from New Orleans....they say that in East Texas, too? Everywhere I was at in East Texas/North Louisiana and OK (which mostly talk the same talk, not totally), always said coke...Guess it counts just where you at...