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.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Milk on grits is a sin!

[rwfromkansas]

This is one thing that makes me northern.

Tea better not be sweetened, and it better be ice cold.

[TexasCowboy]

Since you probably don't use the outhouse anymore, I can tell you about the eighteen foot python/boa/bushmaster/rattlesnake/mamba with three foot fangs that crawled up the back wall of the outhouse using my back for a brace when I was about six.
I ran faster with my pants down than I ever ran with them up!
From then on I developed a permanent crick in my neck from looking behind me when I was using the outhouse.

[gitmo]

Anything other than butter, salt and pepper on grits is sinful.

Any idea what a man can do with cold grits, though?

[TexasCowboy]

"Milk on grits is a sin!"

Yeah, I think that was the Eleventh Commandment to Moses.

I think there might be a law on the books somewhere in the South outlawing sugar and milk on grits. If there's not, there should be.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

It gets fun talkin' about the ancestors sometimes...like my gganduncle Gladis Donaldson, (who I think may have gone by the name Don), who got kilt by being knifed by three irate husbands who thought this musician guy was being too friendly with their wives. Story says this happened in Pecos, TX...but I haven't confirmed the nasty rumour yet...

[gitmo]

They should have offered 'aint' as the pronunciation for aunt. I had to compromise with 'ant', which I use on occasion for an aunt I'm not too close to.

[TexasCowboy]

Fry 'em!

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Ice cold unsweetened tea makes you northern?

[Hi Heels]

53% Dixie. Born in Ohio, raised in California and Hawaii...

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I think Mississippi uses the Aint pronunciation more...but I think we, being removed about 80 years from MS, had degenerated to saying Ant. In New Orleans, though, you're as likely to here Ahhnt as Ant, or Aint.

[Twinkie]

Ya'll were hurting for literature back then if the lingerie pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog were exciting. No wonder so many old Southern guys have eyestrain problems. It was always so dark in there.

I used to cut paper doll families out of the catalog. Only the sizes never worked out quite right. When I found a Mama and a Daddy I wanted to ride around in my matchbox car with their son and daughter, the Mama always turned out huge and the Daddy I cut out was little bitty, same for the kids, they never matched. This playtime activity was done in the middle of the living room floor, though. When a catalog was promoted to the status of toilet tissue, it was no longer paper doll material.

You're right, though. The slick pages were rejects in the Charmin category. - We did graduate to real toilet tissue at some point. I think it was about when we moved halfway across the state and rented an apartment with an indoor toilet. The catalog didn't fit on that little toilet tissue holder on the wall.

[gitmo]

I'll try that. I did fill a hole in the road to my daddy's pasture once.

[Happygal]

I got 70% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score!

How did that happen? I'm Irish! *L*

[Hi Heels]

I like grits with milk/sugar AND butter/salt/pepper. In fact, I never met a grit I didn't like....

[gitmo]

[TexasCowboy]

"Story says this happened in Pecos, TX..."

I've got a book you would love to read about the wild, bizarre things that happened in West Texas in the old days.
The Arizona Territory and West Texas were the last places to be "civilized", and a man had better be a man if he wanted to survive.

Like Clint Eastwood said when he was accused of shooting an unarmed man:
"Well, he shoulda armed himself!"

Damn! I was born too late!

[LadyPilgrim]

96% Southern or Dixie

Is General Lee my Father?
No he isn't, but I wouldn't mine if he was.

[gitmo]

99% Dixie. Raised in Cuba by a good Appalachian couple.

[Carolinamom]

83% Dixie for me. 'Course, I already knew that I'm Southern!