Yankee or Dixie?

[Legs]

Quiz (http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/yankee_dixie_quiz.html)

I was 52% Dixie...and question 9 reminded me of shelli :shakegrinder:

[GodPossessed]

75% Dixie and, might I add, the South was right!

[Watser?]

What's that long sandwich with lots of cold cuts and toppings?

Baguette :D

[Crumb]

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

[vremya]

41% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

Minnesota has warped my mind!!!

[viscousmemories]

44% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

[SharonDee]

"92% Dixie. (Is General Lee your father?)"

Um. Yee-haw?

[Legs]

SharonDee do you sound like a Southern Belle?

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[SharonDee]

I don't sound like that simpering Jaw-jun!

But hey, you'll be able to hear for yourself come July, honey. :)

[ShottleBop]

45% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

[JamesBannon]

57% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.

I didn't have a clue what most of them meant!

[Stormlight]

:yeahthat:

52% Dixie

[Garnet]

60% Dixie.

My results were all over the place. Not surprising since I was born in OK, grew up in AZ and since 2000, I've lived primarily in Michigan with a brief (and hellish) 2 years in AL.

[Doctor X]

Red Sox, never a Mother Fucking Yankee!

--J.D.

[curses]

54% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.

I guess Atlanta truly is an oasis in a sea of redneck.

[Janet]

39% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee.

As would be expected from someone who has lived the majority of her life in Michigan, most of my answers came up as Great Lakes. During my one year in Texas, a library patron once told me, "I don't mind that you're a Yankee." As condescending and bizarre as I found it at the time, I now cherish that memory.

[Legs]

I have never heard of a drive-thru liquor store :wtf:

[Garnet]

I'd heard of and used drive through liquor stores. But I've always just called them drive through liquor stores. :scratch:

[curses]

I want a drive through liquor store :sadcheer: I think they're illegal here, as is sunday alcohol sales (unless it's a bar or restaurant)

[Garnet]

In our old neighborhood here in Michigan, there was an old carwash that was turned into a drive through party store. They didn't sell hard liquor, but they'd load your car up with as much beer as you could buy.

[SharonDee]

But I've always just called them drive through liquor stores. :scratch:Yeah, me too. I've never frequented one but I do wonder how that can be legal. "Don't drink and drive but here, drive through and get a drink." Der? :huh?:

[D. Scarlatti]

56% Dixie.

wtf? I'm from Ontario.

I bet I'd be 95% Dixie if I didn't say "bubbler" and "soda" (when in Rome, etc.).

[vremya]

There was a Booze and Cruise near my mom's place in New Mexico. They're illegal there now, and here too.

[JamesBannon]

:yeahthat:

52% Dixie

:yup: Damn furriners :giggle:

[ITSOZAZ]

48% yankee.

[Adam]

39% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee.

Ha! And you guys told me Indiana people drawled!

[Artemis Entreri]

52% for me and I've lived in the south all my life. Mississippi, Texas, and now Alabama.

[Artemis Entreri]

I blame television.

[Pinecone]

45% Yankee

[Qingdai]

51% Dixie. Never left Oregon, California and Washington.

[viscousmemories]

We had two drive-through liquor stores in Ann Arbor, Michigan when I was growing up: The Beer Vault and The Beer Depot. The former closed years ago but I think the latter is still open. I think they're illegal now, but as I understand it the Beer Depot was grandfathered in.

I used to call soda 'pop' and I never said "y'all" until recently, but now I say it all the time.

[BigBlue2]

53% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category. Been to Louisiana once.

[Ymir's blood]

...I never said "y'all" until recently, but now I say it all the time.That must make it hard to carry on a conversation or sleep.

:blahblah:

[viscousmemories]

You can say that again.

[Caligulette]

45% Yankee. Great Lakes-y for the most part.

[Ymir's blood]

That must make it hard to carry on a conversation or sleep.

[ChuckF]

39% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee.

Ha! And you guys told me Indiana people drawled!
Have you ever been to Bedford? I seriously thought Indiana was full of a bunch of transplants from the South, but it turns out it was just Bedford.

70% Dixie ovah heah.

[LadyShea]

63% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!

I grew up in the West

[freemonkey]

45% Yankee. Great Lakes-y for the most part.

Same here. I grew up in the Great Lakes area. 44% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

[Bella]

...I'm 100% Dixie and I'm from Minnesota. WTF.

[Dingfod]

62%, despite being raised by two Kansans, but not surprising considering a misspent youth living in such places as Memphis and Beaumont (more Deep South) and the Panhandle of Texas.

I have never heard of a drive-thru liquor store :wtf:The first one I ever saw was in Colorado. Our town of 600 had two of them.

[Chris Porter]

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

My dad's family is from Oklahoma and Arkansas. So I picked up how my dad learned to speak from his parents (though he grew up mainly in Chicago). Also, probably my grandparents played a role in the vocabulary pick-up.

[beyelzu]

I want a drive through liquor store :sadcheer: I think they're illegal here, as is sunday alcohol sales (unless it's a bar or restaurant)

nope, unless its just an atl law.

cuz i know of a couple not too far from my house but i rarely use them. cuz i like to go in and shop.

btw, im

84% (Dixie). Did you have any Confederate ancestors?


and the answer is hells yes. my daddy's family came to colonial georgia.

[beyelzu]

...I'm 100% Dixie and I'm from Minnesota. WTF.

no fucking way, seriously 100 percent???

[godfry n. glad]

Hmm....well, I tested out at 58%, just slightly Dixie.

I suppose that's not too surprising, considering a great deal of the original European settler types came here, along the Oregon Trail, from Missouri as a starting point, and contained quite a few "southern" types, mostly amongst the farmers. The other portion of the local population, the shippers (Puddle City being a major port city), tended to come from New England.

We'uns say things like "Y'all cain't git theya f'um heya." :D

The only time I've ever seen a drive-through liquor outlet was in New Hampshire (aka Nude Hamster), where almost exactly half way along the 19 mile stretch of I-95 between the Maine border and the Massachusetts border, there is a drive-through liquor store. It even had freeway exits which, as far as I could tell, led nowhere else. So...I guess it takes more than 9.5 miles to register as an intoxicated driver, and they leave the enforcement to the Maine and Massachusetts State Police. Handy for everybody in Nude Hamster.

[Caligulette]

We'uns say things like "Y'all cain't git theya f'um heya." :D


That's mostly because of street construction.

[Adam]

[quote=Adam;540682]Have you ever been to Bedford? I seriously thought Indiana was full of a bunch of transplants from the South, but it turns out it was just Bedford.

Ha! I think that whole part of the state is like that. Apparently, Indiana has three distinct accents, b/c southern Indiana sounds like its full of Southern refugees to me and, while I don't hear it myself, everyone around Indy claims I have a northern accent.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

76% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score!


Lived in TN my whole life.

[Plant Woman]

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

I lived my childhood in Oregon with a stint in southern Oregon and played with children who moved from the south, maybe that influence is there in my speech, y'all.

But at least I don't say, I'm fixin' to go to town. I had a friend in Hawaii who moved there from St. Charles, Louisiana who was always fixin' to do somethin'. Damn Dixie Pixies.

There was no pidgin category! :shakegreen:

[Uthgar the Brazen]

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

No. But now I'm going to obsess over what that 1% was. As for the drive-thru liquor stores, we didn't call the stores anything different, but referred to the back drive (was always behind the store) as a "Baptist tunnel."

ETA: this is because the store owners would have the drive dug lower than street level so the Baptists could get their hooch discreetly. Not making any part of this up, neither.

/hayseed

[godfry n. glad]

Uthgar's got a Yankee in the woodpile! :giggle:

[Uthgar the Brazen]

Uthgar's got a Yankee in the woodpile! :giggle:

:shakegodfry:

[wildernesse]

71% Dixie

Not surprising since I have only ever lived in Georgia and North Carolina.

[Doohickie]

31%. More yankee than anyone else so far. I grew up in Buffalo and lived in Detroit for a while in between a couple stints in Texas. I suspect I yankeefied my score a bit because I'm also a radical reactionary with respect to Texan English. (I've been known to hit and otherwise abuse people for saying "bedroom suite" like "bedroom suit" instead of "betroom sweet".)

My accent is the "Inland Northern" that goes from the Dakotas to middle New York State, through the Great Lakes area.

[Seven of Nine]

I'm from Southwest Missouri, so I guess I'm half of each, culturally speaking?
My family has always been strongly Abolitionist, though, so some of my neighbors probably consider me not so much a Yankee as a traitor.
Seriously! Last night a friend came over and explained to me at length that we need our Jim Crow laws reinstituted...

[Dingfod]

31%. More yankee than anyone else so far. I grew up in Buffalo and lived in Detroit for a while in between a couple stints in Texas. I suspect I yankeefied my score a bit because I'm also a radical reactionary with respect to Texan English. (I've been known to hit and otherwise abuse people for saying "bedroom suite" like "bedroom suit" instead of "betroom sweet".)

My accent is the "Inland Northern" that goes from the Dakotas to middle New York State, through the Great Lakes area.And now you live in Fart Wurth?

[Zehava]

49% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.


About right.

Mom's side of the family is definitely yankee (not exactly sure where), while Dad's side is mostly from Arkansas and Oklahoma.

I picked up a little bit of everything.

[Doohickie]

And now you live in Fart Wurth?
Yeppers.