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Yankee or Dixie? Take the Quiz
Yankee or Dixie ^

Posted on 01/14/2005 11:10:39 AM PST by 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.


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KEYWORDS: dixie; quiz; yankee
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To: yarddog

Potluck once a month. Fried chicken is good, but the specialties of the congregation are Bishop's pie, tacos and chili.... Oldest member is 102. Believe me, it's still around.


601 posted on 01/15/2005 11:31:56 AM PST by Hi Heels (Proud to be a Pajamarazzi-Leef lang de Katjes van Viking)
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To: munchtipq

The quiz is off. Everyone in New Jersey says Root 39, for example.


602 posted on 01/15/2005 11:34:08 AM PST by firebrand
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To: TexasCowboy

Well, I guess we were at that. We had a chamber pot for the nights. One good thing about it, my kidneys were better then, so trips were minimized.

Now, I would have to just camp out in there. Sigh.


603 posted on 01/15/2005 11:35:52 AM PST by Twinkie (Iced Tea Made From Tea Leaves And Sweetened Just Right!)
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To: Twinkie
The memory is pretty fuzzy about that snake, but I'm pretty sure the Texas Rangers had to come out to kill it.
It would have laughed at a garden hoe.

BTW: Do you notice on this thread how many Yankees envy us Southern kids? Everybody wants to get over the percentage hump toward being Dixie!

604 posted on 01/15/2005 11:40:25 AM PST by TexasCowboy (Texan by birth, citizen of Jesusland by the Grace of God)
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To: Hillary's Lovely Legs

50% "barely into Dixie"

As a Canadian, I may be largely influenced by American talk radio.


605 posted on 01/15/2005 11:41:48 AM PST by balk
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To: TexasCowboy
I can barely remember Mother's wood stove. We got a gas range when I was around 9.

She always said wood cooked better. About the only thing I can recall is how she would take a piece of wood and bump something to open the oven.

I don't think Mother even knew how to make light bread. We had to get ours from the store. She could make extremely good cornbread, although I think it was technically cornpone as it was flat and cooked in a skillet.

My Nephew once asked her for the recipe for her cornbread and I was surprised to learn it had nothing in it but cornmeal water and salt. Hard to believe such a simple recipe could turn out so tasty.

606 posted on 01/15/2005 11:43:29 AM PST by yarddog
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To: Twinkie
"We had a chamber pot for the nights."

We called those, "bed pans".

Can you imagine anyone using one of those now?
Or emptying it the next morning?

Did you ever live in a house that had nothing for light except kerosene lanterns?
And nothing for heat except the wood stove and fireplace?

Good grief! We have gotten so soft!

607 posted on 01/15/2005 11:47:59 AM PST by TexasCowboy (Texan by birth, citizen of Jesusland by the Grace of God)
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To: KevinDavis
I scored 61% Dixie, which would be about right. I am a native of Indiana and have lived here most of my life. However, my father grew up in Texas, and some phrases I use are family phrases not common to all of Indiana.

It surprised me how often an answer I gave zeroed in on either the Great Lakes area or Indiana.

608 posted on 01/15/2005 11:49:19 AM PST by Miss Marple
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To: yarddog
"She always said wood cooked better."

Funny. After we moved to town, my mother hated the gas stove. She always said her wood stove cooked better.

When I was a kid I said that if I ever got grown I'd never eat another red bean or piece of cornbread.
Today if I had to live on two things it would be red beans and cornbread.

609 posted on 01/15/2005 11:53:06 AM PST by TexasCowboy (Texan by birth, citizen of Jesusland by the Grace of God)
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To: Miss Marple; All

My dad was from Ark. However, I do say a lot of stuff that is in the Great lakes area.


610 posted on 01/15/2005 12:24:42 PM PST by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
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To: TexasCowboy
"BTW: Do you notice on this thread how many Yankees envy us Southern kids? Everybody wants to get over the percentage hump toward being Dixie!"

oh, come on now.... That's pride talking. Californians don't identify or envy neither yankees nor rebs. We're weirdo nutcases and proud of it.

Surf's up!

611 posted on 01/15/2005 12:40:54 PM PST by Hi Heels (Proud to be a Pajamarazzi-Leef lang de Katjes van Viking)
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To: TexasCowboy

Egads. I lived in Lake County for two years cooking on a wood stove. You could make me do it again, but you'd have to have a gun.


612 posted on 01/15/2005 12:42:03 PM PST by Hi Heels (Proud to be a Pajamarazzi-Leef lang de Katjes van Viking)
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To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
Here's another survey people can take (scroll to bottom); it's about Pop v. Soda (one of the questions asked in your survey): The Great Pop vs. Soda Controversy


613 posted on 01/15/2005 12:45:43 PM PST by nicmarlo
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To: An American In Dairyland; Maria S; Conspiracy Guy; Laura Earl; Corin Stormhands; ...
49% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

I smell a war a' brewing.

-good times, G.J.P.(Jr.)

614 posted on 01/15/2005 12:50:00 PM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham (Pajama Patrol, deputy.)
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To: weezel

I live in Michigan, and I got 36%.


615 posted on 01/15/2005 1:23:46 PM PST by hg23
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To: Hillary's Lovely Legs

Jeez.............

when I think about the choices........

Yankee = Massachsets or NYC liberal
Dixie = Arkansas redneck


Here in Ohio we're proud to be Buckeyes.


616 posted on 01/15/2005 1:26:55 PM PST by WhiteGuy (The Constitution requires no interpretation, only enforcement.)
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To: youngtory

Depends on where you're from.


617 posted on 01/15/2005 1:32:04 PM PST by Crawdad (I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class.)
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To: Hi Heels
"Californians don't identify or envy neither yankees nor rebs."

I have never heard a Californian bragging about his/her roots.

I mean, really, now, what could they say?

"Oh, I remember those fun filled gay pride parades in San Francisco!"

"As a kid I loved those brush fires in Malibou that showered everything with ashes and soot."

"Boy! Didn't we have fun playing on I-5 jumping from bumper to bumper of cars that had been sitting in the same spot for two hours?"

"It was a lot of fun trying to outrun the mudslides coming down the hills around Simi Vally."

"Earthquakes always opened up some new worlds we kids could explore in the cracks in the earth."

618 posted on 01/15/2005 1:41:15 PM PST by TexasCowboy (Texan by birth, citizen of Jesusland by the Grace of God)
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To: Hillary's Lovely Legs

79% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score!

Heck yeah!


619 posted on 01/15/2005 1:43:33 PM PST by LionsDaughter (http://www.wasteyourday.com/video/040gweagle.wmv)
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