Are you a Yankee or a Dixie?

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

Dixie but not by much (58%).

97% Dixie. Is General Lee your father?

I knew I'd be on the Dixie side of the scale, but had no clue it would be that much.

58% Dixie. Funny, since the only south I'm from is Southern California, which I didn't think counted as southern.

Apparently everyone is Dixie, even Brits. Doesn't seem like a very accurate test!

Yankee, I grew up In the five boros

46%

Ain't nothing weird 'bout that!!

70% Dixie.

yankee

40% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee.

It said 42% Yankee. Doesn't make sense. All my answers said Great Lake region or common to the entire country. So why only 42%?

Interesting. You're in the UK, but I noticed when I lived in the South (Dixie), there was a very large percentage of the population who came from British ancestry. The current pronunciation of the words on the test must still hold true in the South to the British way of saying them.

Southern Calfornians are in another world from the rest of the country, let alone from us Bay Area Yankees.

39% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee. I'm from Massachusetts and New Hampshire, no surprise there.

Wow, that's a very interesting test... lots of differences tied to locations!

73% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score!

So if I were an american - I'd be southern apparently.

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

49% Yank

Did you know the term "Redneck" comes from how Scottish immigrants to the South were described?

I got 52%, so I'm slightly more Dixie than Yankee.

I'm a damn Yankee and proud of it!

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

I think both Southern and Northern California are completely different, in completely different ways, from the rest of the country.

The only southern biased answers I gave was rolling houses and yall. Well actually its yall's to be exact. Sort of "ghetho speak and southern speak rolled into one". Also I wonder what is up with question 16. Where in the hell was the option for "cold drink" or at least "other."

It says "49% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category." I wonder what that means. I am sure I got a little bit of mixed lingo from both, as my collage tends to attract people from all over. Also I use a lot of "ghetto speak" and a tad bit of "hacker speak" as well. So its really hard to classify me. I guess you could say that I am either a dankee or a yanxie.



This all of course is not to be confused with my luser name, which not only being a coinstance to the above but has a unique and distinct history of its own.

What's a boro?

51% dixe

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

one of the 5 boros of the City of New York, I come from Queens, the largest boro.

1. ant
2. three syllables
3. meek
4. father
5. clout
6. No
7. you all
8. yard sale
9. sub
10. crawdad
11. sneakers
12. frosting
13. service road
14. bag
15. drinking fountain
16. pop
17. TP'ing
18. I don't use any word for this
19. None of the below (we say 'drive-thru')
20. pillbug

51% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category

I was never, ever called a yankee until I met my in-laws.. they all call me a yankee like it makes me nasty.

I'm a British Dixie apparently - 65%

I was barely a Dixie though.

52% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.

I wasn't sure if I was allowed to not answer some of them or not, so I answered all of them. That included responses like: "You all" (which I really can't imagine myself saying, but more likely than the other options. I would probably simply say "You" if it was informal and "Ladies and Gentlemen" if it was more formal).

"Access road" (I don't know what any of those things are. We don't have " Interstate highways" in Canada or special names for a road along a highway. I picked that answer because it just "sounded better".)

I would call a "bubbly carbonated drink" by a number of different and specific names. I don't use a general name. But I picked "soda" because "club soda" came to mind as one of many "bubbly carbonated drinks".

I don't know what "that bug that rolls into a ball when you touch it" is, but of the options provided, "potato bug" was the only one that sounded familiar.

The way I heard it, "redneck" came from the blue-collar working people laboring in the sun all day - "red" neck (sunburn) in contrast to the white of the rest of their bodies.

Doesn't Alaska also have boros too or is it just NY. Here we also have parishes. Instead everywhere else they have counties.

As I understand it, it comes from Scots who would wear a red bandana around their neck as part of the way of dressing...I guess I'll have to look at an OED

I wouldn't know about Alaskan counties. All I know is that the City of New York is the only city in the world with boros.

Seems to me redneck in general means a blue-collar, fairly un-educated, beer-drinking southern racist driving a pick-up truck with a gun rack. Don't see how that relates to any Scotsmen.

Dixie, my score was 51%, but I think neither really as I'm from the UK so most of what's in the quiz I wouldn't really say anyway. I call those little bugs "pea bugs" or "wood lice".

72% Dixie. Strong Southern score.

Which probably means I'm a foreigner to people in the Northeast.

"Seems to me redneck in general means a blue-collar, fairly un-educated, beer-drinking southern racist driving a pick-up truck with a gun rack"

Which is why I consider it a bigoted term.

Well, it is. To call someone a 'redneck' is not very different from calling someone the "N-word". Being a redneck is not something a person would be proud of.

I am me.

not in its modern connotation; I was talking about the word's origin.

Dixie....I don't need a test, thanks.

ok...so after reading what some of you guys were discussing as questions...I decided to take the test, out of curiosity just to "see" what my score would be... and I got this.... LOL
100% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father?

HeHeHe. We must be sisters!

Actually, some people are very proud to be rednecks. I've been labeled a redneck a number of times and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. To me, it's a term used to describe southern people who are in touch with their heritage. Nothing more. Nothing less.

wow! i was surprised to be a 47% Yankee, considering i live in Georgia and have off and on for most of my life! must be the n.w. Mother and the few years spent traveling around the whole U.S. -- probably picked up some Yankee-speak along the way.

so many of us southerners have British roots, and alot of our old folk songs are Irish, it just figures that some pronounciations would be similar!

I was unable to answer a lot of these questions.

E.g I pronounce want the same as wont (no apostrophe), ant as ant, caught as court and aunt as aren't.

I ended up as 72% Dixie

48% Yankee. It didn't say how much Doodle, though.

must be!

58 percent dixie. I'm shocked.

That makes sense. I've heard that there are small, isolated communities in the backwaters of Appalachia that are considered to have the English pronunciation closest to that of the earliest British settlers of America. I'd forgotten about that until your comment reminded me!

73% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score! I guess that would make sense, since I have lived in Texas for 15 years!

Except there are songs like "Proud to be a Redneck" or the Redneck bar, where all the Rednecks go to country and western dance.

52% Dixie... my father was from the Bronx, NY, mother Idaho panhandle. At almost 60, my speech has been influenced by a lot of everything. I might be more of a redneck than I realize, too!

is this about the southernyankee one to talks on here

46% yankee
whatever

54% Dixie. Saying y'all put me over.

I'm a dixie and I live in California.

I'm a dixie (61%) and I live in California.

51...barely

Yankee. 42% I was born in the north so I'm not sure why it isn't 100%. Something must have been transplanted here.

Actually, the Brits supported the Confederacy during the Civil War, not the Union. So, it kind of makes sense that Brits might be Dixies.

See any commonalities when you compare the Union Jack and the Rebel Flag?

I didn't remember that. Did they really help out militarily? Or did they just help in running the Union blockade? Either way, it makes more sense to me that the people who originally settled that area were British. I doubt many Brits settled down there after the Civil War. I mean, the French helped the fledgling US out during the Revolutionary War, and we don't have French accents now.

Whatever resemblance the Confederate flag may have to the Union Jack, I doubt it was because the British supported them during the war. They probably already had the flag before the British started supporting them, anyway.

No, the British didn't involve themselves militarily, at least not on a large scale. I do believe they took part in supporting them with funds and some supplies though.

The Confederacy was based on continuing the old, aristocratic ways passed down from the British instead of joining a more democratic Union.

No it wasn't. It was about state's rights.

Yes, and continuing the aristocratic ways of the Old World in the New World.