BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Sep 22 - 09:35 AM

Never done it but heard of TPing.

Sounds like a Vulcan diplomat.

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: Senoufou
Date: 26 Sep 22 - 03:59 AM

I'm apparently 'barely in Yankeedom'. (Many of the questions didn't have my answer listed.)
But just a minute, what's all that about throwing toilet paper over a house roof? Eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: Neil D
Date: 26 Sep 22 - 02:17 AM

It told me I was definitely a Yankee and I couldn't be prouder. Two of the questions didn't include my real answer in the multiple choice. I always call soft drinks colas but, not wanting to leave on unanswered, I had to pick pop. Also, in my part of the country we call the night before Halloween Trick or Treat Night. After some thought I finally picked Beggar's Night.

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: Mrrzy
Date: 19 Sep 22 - 08:59 AM

I had trouble with the caramel question too. It is 2 syllables but car-mul not care-mul. I went with the syllable count.

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Sep 22 - 09:36 PM

I was voted an honorary Southerner years back by a group of three REAL southerners, born and bred back generations. I could correctly answer three questions:

1. What's the plural of y'all?
2. What do you eat on grits?
3. Describe the flag of the Confederacy.

Answers:

1. Y'all is traditionally plural. Anything else is an attempt to exclude Yankees.
2. Maybe some butter if it's for breakfaast. Shrimp and cheese are okay for dinner.
3. Which one? The Bonnie Blue? The First, Second, or Third National?

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Sep 22 - 09:26 PM

97% Dixie. Is General Lee your grandfather?!

And yet, I was born in West Central Illinois and my g-g-g Uncle fought for the Union.

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: Mrrzy
Date: 18 Sep 22 - 04:20 PM

60% ... "Barely" ... Dixie.

Whew.

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: gillymor
Date: 18 Sep 22 - 10:23 AM

That one tells me I'm from the Northeast though I've never resided above the Mason Dixon line and the previous one has me as 70% Dixie. So much for online quizzes.

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Sep 22 - 10:05 AM

https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/american-accent-quiz

Although born in the Kickapoo Ozarks area I have a California accent now by this similar app.

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Sep 22 - 07:03 AM

Well, I'm from the part of Ohio closest to Detroit, Michigan.
And that city has a lot of migrants from the South, to work in the factories. I think that makes a difference.

Going over that test,
I spotted a lot of things that recall New England accents and vocabulary,
and that Boston Brahmin stuff isn't me at all --
I guess that's what they call Yankee.

Oh, my score was 45% Dixie, barely in Yankeedom (hi Joe Offer)

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Sep 22 - 12:12 AM

42% Dixie, barely in Yankeedom. I was born in Detroit, and didn't move to Wisconsin soon enough to get much of a Wisconsin accent.

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: gillymor
Date: 17 Sep 22 - 10:31 PM

70% Dixie, Yee hah!

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 22 - 07:57 PM

69 yankee

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: Lighter
Date: 17 Sep 22 - 03:10 PM

Just now took it.

66% Yankee.

How did I score so low?

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: Benjamin
Date: 10 Mar 05 - 01:16 AM

I'm 47%, barely a yankee. I'm not sure what to be proud of, if anything about my results. I hope my grades come back better than that! Shoot, another year of school, I couldn't imagine the agony!

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: GUEST,Claymore
Date: 09 Mar 05 - 06:22 PM

I got exactly 50%, which for some reason is "barely Yankee". But it is highly appropriate for a military brat who has lived all over the US (including Hawaii) and now lives in West Va (a state wrongfully considered Southern, but which fought for the North). My Dad was born in Boston and my Mom in San Francisco, but several answers came back as "western Great Lakes", which reflects a couple of years my Dad was stationed in Cleveland, during my youth.

Nonetheless, an interesting quiz. Thanks

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Mar 05 - 03:48 PM

Humph! Their results for each answer never once mentioned the WEST for any of them. *sigh* I guess that's cause somewhere way back when we all started out East, well, our ancestors did, anyway.

Like many, I scored "58% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category." I know we had a lof of Southern influence in Colorado, but we also had Northeast influences in our family. Plus I lived in New England for ten years and Why-Oh-Ming's got some of its own strange stuff, so I guess it just proves I am a mix of waters from a bunch o'different cricks', er...creeks' branches.

Thanks ya'll....

KTLoo

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 09 Mar 05 - 02:52 PM

Kaleea hunny, wher'bouts y'all livin' nay-yuh (now)?

Long, Firm Freddie: in some areas it is considered a sign of upper-status/popularity to toilet-paper the houseyard of a teen(either gender). In other areas it is a subtle(?) threat, or harrassment -- notice that the teen is different(bad) or out-of-alignment with the local (teen) power elite. Go figure. (Most homeowners consider it vandalism.)                      Tw

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: Chief Chaos
Date: 08 Mar 05 - 08:18 PM

For somone that was born in the south and spent summers in Buffalo, NY, I turned out 68% Dixie. Only one problem. Crawdads don't live in creeks. They haven't got creeks in the area that calls 'em crawdads.

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: vectis
Date: 08 Mar 05 - 06:58 PM

60% Dixie and I'm from the south coast

of England....

Strange Hmmmm?

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: Susan A-R
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 10:46 PM

Hmmm, mine show me as 41% yankee, barely a yankee. 3rd generation Vermonter, Oh well that stint in the Midwest in college confused the heck out of me linguistically I guess, and Mom, the english teacher, also drummed out things like aunt and pajamas. But they didn't ask me how I pronounce White River Junction (Totally Vermont "Hoyt Rivah Jun'tion) or the word "fine" when I'm tired the yankee comes out (foin). And don't even go there for Mi'ens (mittens) or "farther" (father)

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 08:00 PM

My results say 46% Yankee, "Barely a Yankee". Not sure if that's good or bad.

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: Cool Beans
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 07:37 PM

I've lived my whole life in Brooklyn (born and raised); Syracuse, NY; New Haven, Conn.; Providence RI and Detroit, Mich. and yet I came out 55 percent Dixie (just barely Dixie). Must be the condo in Florida.

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: Kaleea
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 06:09 PM

garshhkk! Do our friendly 'Catters across the pond watch alot of Dukes of Hazard & Beverly Hillbilly reruns? It's a riot that yew'unz understand so much "Dixie" speak!

(Kaleea speaks with whispering Southern Belle voice):

   Ah troo-wuh--ly tho-wut thet one o' them thar durn yay-yunkeez wuz a feller in pee-yun strah-yupped puh-jay-yuh-muz thet play-eez bay-eess-bowl in New Yo-wuk Citeee.

   **If you have easily deciphered the above code, you must be a so-called "Southerner", and are needed by your government in the Secret Code department.

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 05:01 PM

Lont Firm Freddie,

Fans in Auburn, Alabama routinely "roll" Toomer's Corner. Read about it here.

Auburn is the only city in the country that has a line item in their budget to clean up toilet paper.

Pictures here. There is also a web cam.

But you asked what the purpose is...some might say:

Q: Why do Auburn fans always roll Toomer's Corner?
A: That way there is always toilet paper handy to wipe the cow shit off of their shoes.

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: PoppaGator
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 11:09 AM

47% Yankee; not surprising, since I was born and raised in New Jersey but have lived in New Orleans (in the South but notof it) for over 30 years.

Like everyone around me, I consistently refer to carbonated non-alcoholic beverages as "col' drinks," which was not listed and which would certainly mark one as a Southerner. Also, hereabouts, those big sandwiches are "po-boys": again, not on the list. I submitted "sub" as my next-best-choice, thinking it would mark me as a New York/New Jersey native, but no ~ it said "common throughout the US."

I had to admit I still call my casual shoes "sneakers," although I often use the local colloquial term "tennis" jokingly (not "tennis shoes," and not even "tennies" ~ just "tennis," as in "Where the h** are my tennis?")

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: Dani
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 10:25 AM

Toilet papering is often done on Mischief Night in Jersey who thought THAT one up, anyway?). You hold the end, throw the roll up in to the trees, over the cars, houses, etc. Don't know how it got started, but it's an ugly mess to clean up ;)

That's probably what helped knock down my score to 53% yankee. Very interesting. I can think of lots of other questions to put in here:

How do you pronounce that stuff that you put in your car to make the engine run smoothly (erl, ohl, oyul, etc)

What do you call that part of your body that you sit on?


Dani (no, that's not what you call it)

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Mar 05 - 05:15 PM

Interesting, if accurate, which I doubt. I scored 53% Dixie, which is okay, but I never pronounced it "soda" or "pop" -- we called it "sody." We used "y'all" for the plural. We call the bugs "ugly little critters," which applied to a lot of other things as well. I grew up on the Mississippi in West Central Illinois, lived for a dozen years near Cleveland and Akron, another 16 in South Bend, Indiana (both of which puts me in the Great Lakes/Chicago orbits), and then 3 years on the south side of the Ohio River near Cincinnati. Now I live in Idaho.

If you score exactly 50% do you live right on the Mason-Dixon Line?

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 06 Mar 05 - 04:16 PM

The categories seem strange to me:

I scored 37% Yankee, which it called "definitively Yankee".   

But someone above said they got 52% Dixie "barely into the Dixie category".

I'm confused. But then people have told me that I was confused for years!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: Long Firm Freddie
Date: 06 Mar 05 - 03:37 AM

63% Dixie - and I'm from Sarf Landan, like Walrus.

Can someone explain what the purpose of toilet papering might be, please?

LFF

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: robomatic
Date: 05 Mar 05 - 08:24 PM

In New Zealand, Yank tourists were called "Loopies" by the Kiwis who put up with me. No one seemed to have an origin story for the term.

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: The Walrus
Date: 05 Mar 05 - 07:59 PM

"...I'll never forget a fat jolly ol' Englishman at Marble Arch telling me "We used to call you fellows Sherman Yanks!" ..."

It's better than the other version... Septic Tanks often shortened to 'Septics' (or, I believe, in Australia to 'Seppos')

Walrus

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: Bobert
Date: 05 Mar 05 - 07:58 PM

Well, gol danged... I got me a 77% Dixie which at least is passin' so I'll take it....

Lot 'o purdy danged smart folks here in the 50's so, hey, for not studin' none, I'm happy wid my score... Sho nuff am......

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: robomatic
Date: 05 Mar 05 - 07:43 PM

Well, if you're in Europe Yankee means you're American.
If you're in the US, Yankee means you're from north of the Mason Dixon Line
If you're north of the Mason Dixon line, Yankee means you're from New England.
If you're in New England, Yankee means you're from Maine, Vermont, or Massachusetts.
If you're in Massachusetts, Yankee means you'r from Boston
If you're in Boston, Yankee means you're from Beacon Hill.
If you're from Beacon Hill, the further up the hill you go, the more Yankee you be.

I'll never forget a fat jolly ol' Englishman at Marble Arch telling me "We used to call you fellows Sherman Yanks!"

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: goodbar
Date: 05 Mar 05 - 04:54 PM

43% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

i didn't think i'd be barely. i'm a seattle boy!

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Mar 05 - 04:31 PM

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

Actually, I'm Canadian. There were Canadians who volunteered to serve in the Confederate Army as well as the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: DMcG
Date: 05 Mar 05 - 01:02 PM

I was 52% Dixie and from the UK as well. I interpret that as neither/equally Dixie and Yankee, which I suppose is right.

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 05 Mar 05 - 12:49 PM

I ran through it twice -- once with my acquired adult "accent" living in New England, and once with my youthful Milwaukee upbringing.

Both, of course, came up "definitive Yankee" -- unfortunately, my definition of "Yankee" since moving to Massachusetts (1970) -- Maine(1972) -- and New Hampshire (1980) --means New England, not just northern United States.

Tom tells me, though, that I was born a Yankee.      (Meaning a New Englander, as opposed to being from the Mid Waste. I was born a Yooper and spent my youth as a Cheesehead)

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: mack/misophist
Date: 05 Mar 05 - 11:28 AM

I protest! 60% Dixie ain't fair. They must have changed the language since I left. True, that was 40 years ago.

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: robomatic
Date: 05 Mar 05 - 10:32 AM

That was cute and informative, thank you! Turned me out as 40% yankee which is as fair as anything, considering as a youth I spent time in Ohio and used to hunt for crawdads at the crik.

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Mar 05 - 09:46 AM

71% Dixie, which is probably about right for a Floridian who's been married to a Hoosier for 15 years.

BTW, they omitted the true Dixieism for a bubbly drink. Bubba and Jim Bob call 'em "cold drinks", pronounced "co-drinks".

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: artbrooks
Date: 05 Mar 05 - 09:22 AM

37% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee. Seems odd, since most of the specific answers say either midwest or west...which is where I'v lived most of my life. I guess that my Rhode Island father and New York mother had more influence on me than they ever thought.

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: Flash Company
Date: 05 Mar 05 - 07:38 AM

Interesting! 52% Dixie, and I'm from Cheshire in the UK, always have been,
FC

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: The Walrus
Date: 05 Mar 05 - 07:04 AM

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

Well, I suppose I am Southern, well South London (Or Sauf Lun'un if you prefer).
I would have been happier if there had been a 'cop out' clause on some of those questions, instead of just leaving them unanswered.

Walrus

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 05 Mar 05 - 06:10 AM

Well it told me I was 100% Dixie, and asked me if General Lee was my father. I find this insulting as if he were I'd be extremely old, even older than i am now. However considering I was born In Glasgow, with an Irish father and a Scottish Mother and still live in Scotland, I somehow doubt the veracity of this particular quiz.
Good fun though.
Giok ;~)

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: Kaleea
Date: 05 Mar 05 - 03:34 AM

Well, kiss my grits! I guess I must be kin to General Cornpone himself, cuz I got 91% Dixie. I did have some trouble with some of the answers which are obviously not correct Southern answers. The word "caramel" has at least FIVE syllables--"Cay-uh-ruh-may-yull." Any good linguist knows that a Southerner adds a minimum of 3-4 syllables per word.
In the South,
    when we'unz iz tarrd, we go to Bay-yud.
    If'n we'z hongry, we'unz may-yuk a say-yundwuch wif bray-yud.

    And of course, the true test of Southern grammar:
   
    Q: What is the plural form of the term meaning an entire group of people?

    A: All Y'all.

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: John O'L
Date: 05 Mar 05 - 12:17 AM

64% Dixie, with New York & Massachusetts inclinations.

I wonder what that should mean to an Australian? I have ancestors from upstate NY and Mass., but I doubt if that's got anything to do with it.
Probably just too much television.

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: jimmyt
Date: 04 Mar 05 - 11:24 PM

84 percent dixie I guess the south is finally rubbing off on me after 24 years!

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 04 Mar 05 - 10:47 PM

I took the test 2x. The first time I was 52 dixie; the second, 49% yankee. At some point in my life I have pronounced the same word differently, or used a different word for the same thing. For instance, I used to say carml, but now car-a-mel, and at various time I have worn sneakers, tennis shoes or gym shoes. And I have never used any of the words, ever, for that bug in the last question...we-for unknown reasons-called them moles, but not to be confused with the mammal. I think I have way overthought this quiz. Get a life John!

Subject: RE: BS: Yankee or Dixie quiz
From: RichM
Date: 04 Mar 05 - 09:49 PM

Interesting; my result is
"74% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score!"

...especially for someone from the Ottawa (Canada) area....