Foo - Are you Yankee or Dixie?

Check and see!


http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/yankee_dixie_quiz.html

Excellent, I passed!


>>>79% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score!
Even as a NC native, I refuse to use Y'all...

That thing asked me if General Lee was my father.

58% Dixie. Probably because I married a southerner.

64% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!

Theres a definate irony here :)...

That was sort of fun..I was 59% Dixie..Don't know where the hell that came from...I did live in Southern Florida for over 10 years...They don't speak you'll in Sarasota. Lots of phrases are universal with mass communications and all.

hmm. I'mfrom maryland, yet I've got a 71% dixie. I didn't know I had it in me.

I am a definitive Yankee

MsVicki....I'm 55% Dixie...But, except for talking to you on this forum, I've never been there....Whatzit all mean?....

I am a definitive Yankee


Yeah, those great lakes -isms are hard to shake.

53% Dixie. I've lived all over, from Philadelphia to Charleston S.C. to Ohio to California.

I moved down south from Ohio when I was a kid, so I thought the test was pretty accurate at 54% Dixie. I'm amphibious.

I think this test is messed up. Me 63% Dixie. Not sure how that came about. Hmmmm

Yankee through & through. Can't hide it, you other people are the ones with the accent.

43% Yankee though I have lived all over the place

This test is pretty sketchy...I scored %52 dixie...but nearly all my answers except for a few were related to either great lakes region, northeast, midwest, or all of US. There were a few answers that favored southeast but not many.

That and I'm a die hard liberal.

60% Yankee because I live in the great lakes area, and I don't like hicks, mostly because of the way they talk, and their intelligence;"hey ma I caughts meself a possum, looks like we're eat'n tonight!". I hope I don't piss off any southerners, its mostly directed to people who live in a shack and eat possums. :D

65% Dixie even though I was born in NYC and grew up in the NYC metropolitan area until age 17. I guess those four years I spent in Texas F'd me up forever... ;)

Dixie by 61%. Except for "y'all" many of the terms used here in Houston, Texas are also popular in Michigan and Ohio. Perhaps because about a third of the folks in Houston were born in Michigan or Ohio.

"Y'all" is a very useful term, and ought to be used everyone. To use the word "you" when speaking to one person, and to also use the word "you" when speaking to five people is not precise.

But, in Texas, if you want one person to stay after a meeting, and everyone else to leave, you can say "You stay for a minute...y'all can go back to work". Up north, you might say "You stay for a minute...you can go back to work". People might respond "Make up your mind".

Actually, the correct yankee synonym for 'y'all' is 'you guys'. However, that wasn't offered as a choice. IMO, y'all is gender neutral, whereas you guys is a male dominant expression. For this reason, I prefer y'all.

79% Dixie - and I spent my first 21 years in South Wales! (But did spend the last 27 in Mississippi and Arkansas.)

39% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee.

IN one sence, the south has it right with "yall". Here when your saying "you", it could mean you individually or you all. Its up to people to guess. Where many other languages including latin have a different method of distinguishing the two. But being a yankee i think it sounds funny :)

I got 80% seems a little low for me, must be my extensive book learning.

randya, it is youse guys.

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


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I went to VA last summer, and i must say i loved it there. Warm all the time :), but i dont think i fit in with the way i talked. Especially when i went to Charlettesville area.

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

i'm barely a dixie. das weird.

84% Dixie.

Yee Haw! :D

70% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!

I hate Maryland, can't wait for college till I can head on South- 1 1/2 years. I've had a lot of people who live in the south ask me where I'm from because of the way I talk and be surprised to here I'm from such a Yank state like Maryland. We actually had a discussion about this the other day in school, MD and No. VA are very similar; whereas all of VA besides northern VA are so very different. I know people in Richmond and C'ville who consider Fairfax, Arlington, Alexandria to be traitors to the "MD Communists," just thought that was funny.

67% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!

Born and raised, and still reside, in South Carolina, but raised by a Yankee mother from Conneticutt. (Thanks to the US Navy)

47% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

Aye guess foran oorzie dart not ta'baad.

60% Dixie.

Hot diggetty!

Now, where's ma grits?

randya, it is youse guys.
I did debate (w/ myself) posting it that way, then decided against it. That's the way my 'ant' still sez it. I guess I've been gone from NY too long...

How about Mary, marry, merry...do you say them the same or different?

48% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category
To be expected. Most of my answers were Great Lakes biased. Small wonder since the closest city to my hometown that many people would recognize is Duluth, MN

44% Yankee. Just barely hanging on to my roots after moving from CT.

35% Yankee. A definative Yankee.

46% Yankee
Spent most of my life in western Pennsylvania-- eating HOAGIES.

60% Yankee because I live in the great lakes area, and I don't like hicks, mostly because of the way they talk, and their intelligence;"hey ma I caughts meself a possum, looks like we're eat'n tonight!". I hope I don't piss off any southerners, its mostly directed to people who live in a shack and eat possums. :D



And possum is a problem how?

Actually, the correct yankee synonym for 'y'all' is 'you guys'. However, that wasn't offered as a choice. IMO, y'all is gender neutral, whereas you guys is a male dominant expression. For this reason, I prefer y'all.


Randy, what's this "you guys" crap? Eh? We all know the propper yankeee for you plural is youse or ya'z... unless you're west of Harrisburg PA then it's You'ns or Ya'ns which is a accurate and proper contraction for 'you ones'./

What sucks is that I've spent a goodly part of my life where each is used. this makes for interesting senteces whin I'll use both in a sentence to distinguish between two 'you plural' groups.

interesting...

42% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

this is probably because i'm a canuck, and our speech patterns share a lot in common with southerners through our brit roots.

Actually, the correct yankee synonym for 'y'all' is 'you guys'. However, that wasn't offered as a choice. IMO, y'all is gender neutral, whereas you guys is a male dominant expression. For this reason, I prefer y'all.

I use "you guys" for any gender. When I chose "you all" I kept thinking that it should be "you guys" and sure enough they say that in the answer.

33% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee. I refuse to use bubbler because that is the lamest word in the world and I can't stand to use the word pop. In fact, if someone asks me if I have any pop in my fridge I refuse them anything until they say soda.

I am a Milwaukee, WI native so I got almost all the other Great Lakes sayings.

"Y'all" is a very useful term, and ought to be used everyone. To use the word "you" when speaking to one person, and to also use the word "you" when speaking to five people is not precise.

But, in Texas, if you want one person to stay after a meeting, and everyone else to leave, you can say "You stay for a minute...y'all can go back to work". Up north, you might say "You stay for a minute...you can go back to work". People might respond "Make up your mind".

Until the 16th century, English was clear and distinct here.
In those days, the word for "you" (in singular) was "thou".
(With "thee" as object form and "thine" as genetive form.)

In Irish English, it's "ye" for the plural case:
"Peter, could you please get that for me?"
"Mary, John, Anna and Richard, will ye come with me?"

58% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.

I don't understand what a Yankee and a Dixie is...

58% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.

I don't understand what a Yankee and a Dixie is...

Northerner or Southerner.

79% dixie...which is good since I was born and raised in Tennessee. Spent 8 years in the U.S. Army all over the place, tho. That's probably why I didn't score higher.

52% Dixie. Coming from St. Louis, this figures.

I'm 60% Dixie. Hmm...lived ALL over though since I was an Army Brat. But you know what they say...I wasn't born in Texas but I got here as soon as I could!!

Northerner or Southerner.


This is the generally accepted definition. Some might argue it's actually Union vs. Confederacy.

Signing off, a Yankee living in (General) Lee County, Alabama (The Heart of Dixie) :rolleyes:

48% Yankee.

By the way, on number 7 all the people around here say you guys not youse guys except for those people from South Philly. You know, the same group that pronounces Library as Lie-Berry not Lie-brer-e.

I scored 52 percent dixie which is strange I have only been in the south for maybe five weeks total in my life. i was in Virginia for a year and a half though but that is considered the northeast. I was born and raised in Illinois( Chicago area) and spent maybe a year and a half in Michigan.

I scored 52 percent dixie which is strange I have only been in the south for maybe five weeks total in my life. i was in Virginia for a year and a half though but that is considered the northeast. I was born and raised in Illinois( Chicago area) and spent maybe a year and a half in Michigan.
It's 'cuz you're so "Bible Belt", James!