Take The Redneck/Yankee Test!!

[mermaid]

Take the Yankee/Redneck Test (note - this is America-oriented, no offense to our International DU'ers)

http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/yankeetest.html

Take the test, and then come back here, post your score, and vote in the poll, indicating your score.

[mermaid]

1. 56% Dixie, For The Record, Y'all n/t

[Fleshdancer]

2. 52% y'all!

This was a cute quiz although I'm surprised how many midwest answers I got.

Is party barn seriously just a Texan thing? lol! And what the hell do you people do the night before Halloween? THAT was new to me.

[Draill]

3. 52% (Dixie). Right on the Mason-Dixon Line n/t

[texanwitch]

4. I got 68 percent y'all.

[AVulgarianHue]

5. 58% Dixie

Old times there are not forgotten...
by my grandparents

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. 48% Yankee

"Barely in the Yankee category."

Kinda weird, since I was raised by two Arkies. :shrug:

[AVulgarianHue]

8. Acculturation n/t

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. Yeah

I should've noted, I was raised by them in Kollyforniya. Competing influences, y'know. :dilemma:

[AVulgarianHue]

12. California, also

Here is another Arky, who made his home in California

[LostinVA]

28. 46%, However an interesting fact

I moved to NC when I was 17, I'm 41 now. IF I answer the questions as if I still lived in NJ, I'm almost 100% Yankee.... how about that, y'all?!

Take this -- I'm 46% Yankee (several things have changed from when I went to college until now.)

[nickinSTL]

48. weird, since I got 34% Yankee, 'definitely a Yankee'

odd.

Not too surprising, since I've always lived in the Midwest (except when I lived in Germany), and my parents are from Minnesota.

[slay]

7. 76% (Dixie). Your neck must be at least pink!

I be the most redneck-ish so far! Yeehaw! :evilgrin:

[Qibing Zero]

10. 39% yankee... living in FL

Lalala...

[Robeson]

11. 68% Dixie. What can I say, I was raised in the South.....

...but I do love the 32% of me that is Yankee.

[last_texas_dem]

15. I'm 68% Dixie, too

One interesting question was the one about toilet papering. Most of the people I know always called that "wrapping" a house. I'm wondering if that is some odd regional thing or if it's just not very common and thus wasn't listed. I put "toilet papering" just 'cause I don't use any of the other terms.

[Jamastiene]

13. 42% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.

Odd thing about it. I'm from North Carolina. No wonder I don't fit in my home state. Hmm...

[fleabert]

14. 76 %, not so much dixie as Texan, I'd say...

[Eugene]

16. 41% Yankee.

Barely in the Yankee category.

[MissHoneychurch]

17. 76% (Dixie)

Your neck must be at least pink!

[MrScorpio]

18. 44% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.

I think I need pop

[nytemare]

62. That was my result, too. I call it pop and sodie.

A lot of those answers, I used two of the examples.

I grew up in Maryland, near DC, and moved to FL when I was 8.

I don't think I have too much of an accent.

[RebelOne]

19. 55% Dixie

I guess it's because I was born in Pennsylvania, moved to Miami, Fla. when I was 5 years old and grew up there. Then lived in California, Alabama, New Jersey and am now living in North Georgia.

[WCGreen]

20. 38% Yankee......

[William Bloode]

21. 84% Dixie.

Them thar folks wanted ta know if'n i still used dat dare Confefdrit money.

I'm from deep in the Appalachians, i better sound like a redneck hillbilly or sumthins wrong.

[Mutley]

22. 45% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.

I was a navy brat, so I have a mixture of everything in my speech.

[Clintmax]

23. 53% Dixie n/t

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

24. Funny! 36% yankee

but I was born in Italy till age 15, then from 15 to 30 I lived in North Carolina, where I also learned English.

Cool test

[In_The_Wind]

25. 84% (Dixie). Do you still use Confederate money?

[bridgit]

26. 41% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category...

and that's just fine by me :thumbsup:

[texas1928]

27. 84% (Dixie). Do you still use Confederate money?

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE



HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!

[Citizen Jane]

29. 70% Dixie. Just under the Mason/Dixon Line

Though probably more. I do use different pronunciations situationally and "either" was not always an option!

[johnnie]

30. 36% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.

Yup. Although I don't understand why people still like to use these terms. Oh well, some day people will understand that there isn't really a difference anywhere you go. I guess it's just still that "us and them" mentality that people have yet to grown out of.

Many of those answers I could have gone a few different ways with.

[Left_Winger]

31. 69% (Dixie). Just under the Mason-Dixon Line

Go figure.... I'm from South Carolina.

[Callalily]

32. 22% (Yankee).

"You are a Yankee Doodle Dandy." Sheesh - now what does this mean? OMG!

[Politically_Wrong]

66. 43% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.

I noticed the "bubbler" question and I was curious so i clicked on it...and what do you know it said Southern Wisconsin...I remember you calling it a bubbler before...oh well...I'm a damn Yankee...that just ruined my day...

P.S. I will be on SOCOM all tonight...if you get on go to Central 5 then click chat (i think that's what it's called (it might be the circle button)) and there should be a category that says people in this server (or something like that) my name is Yukon_John find me! Hopefully we will find each other one of these nights...

[Callalily]

68. Damn Yankee?!?!?!?

Hey, what's up with that?
I suspected you'd pick up on the "bubbler" question, purely Wisconsin, hey, ya betcha!
Logged on late last night and you guys must have been gone. Only played for a little while (and lousy), was tired and went to bed.
Should be on earlier tonight, I'll most definitely be looking for you. Geez, now you guys are going to be experts and I'll be in kindergarten level again!


edit=typo

[peekaloo]

33. 70% Dixie. I was reared in the South......and we all know how painful

that can be. (Letterman rip off)

[xmas74]

34. 16% Yankee.

Heavy emphasis on the Western Great Lakes. Turns out the language of my childhood is still alive and well when I speak(just w/ a much different accent now). Turns out the big ones are rummage sale, frontage road, TP, gym shoes and bubbler. I also knew the phrase Devil's night quite well.

[AussieDave]

35. 68% Dixie - born & raised in Texas

but left when I was 11 - now in Australia for 38 years.

Haven't forgotten my roots........

[Deep13]

36. wicked good!

25%, born in Worcester, MA. Rotory traffic, one way streets, no pronounced Rs. For lunch, a grinder with some Polar orange tonic. Pretty far from that Manson-Nixon line.

[Shell Beau]

37. 68% (Dixie). Just under the Mason-Dixon Line

I live in Mississippi so I am way under the Mason Dixon!

[jojog]

52. Which part of Mississippi?

[Shell Beau]

75. I am from the Delta, but now live right outside of Jackson.

[jojog]

79. OK

Just ask cause I am just over the border in SW Tennessee.

[Shell Beau]

81. Memphis?

[jojog]

96. Small town north of Corinth - Selmer

I love Memphis but have spent a lot more time in Nashville.

[jane_pippin]

38. 36% Yankee. (It was the "Bubbler" question. I know it was.)

Fun quiz. Thanks.

[no name no slogan]

39. 33% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.

It was all those "western great lakes" questions that did me in.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

40. 49% Yankee

But, don't rat me out to the locals. I finally have them believing that I'm Texan.

I'm an odd mix due to my upbringing. Raised in California with grandparents who are from Minnesota and then later moved to Texas.

I grew up saying pop then coke and now I've settled on soda. :P

[GOPisEvil]

56. 49%?!?! Git a rope! Heck I moved here when I was 12, I am 66% Dixie.

:P

[Lone_Star_Dem]

89. Give me a few more years

The way I see it if I don't go home and visit and really work on saying 'ya'll' rather than 'you guys', I can be up to 66% in two years tops. :P

[GOPisEvil]

91. As long as you don't say "youse guys" you're safe.

[ZombieNixon]

41. 38% Yank.

Never lived south of the Mason-Dixon line in my life.

[LynneSin]

42. I was 28% Yankee but many of my answers were PA/Ohio/Great Lakes

like Creek - crick is what anyone in Pennsylvania would call it. There were a few other answers that were PA/OH words. Major influence of the influx of Amish or as we call them: Pennsylvania Dutch (oddly enough they're from Germany)

[DS1]

43. 45% Yankee, which doesn't surprise me

I have words and pronunciations from all over the country

[MN ChimpH8R]

44. 29% Yankee

I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy

A lot of my answers were Great Lakes, though. Imagine that :)

[LaraMN]

45. 40% Yankee.

:hi:

[asthmaticeog]

46. 52% Dixie - lived my whole life in Cleveland, OH.

:WTF:

[trackfan]

47. 52% (Dixie). Right on the Mason-Dixon Line

Hmm. I'm from Los Angeles.

[anarch]

49. 54% (Dixie) - Right on the Mason-Dixon Line

Which, actually, is pretty much geographically true.

That sandwich is clearly a hoagie, though. Y'all.

[flamingyouth]

50. 43% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.

I've lived in Seattle my whole life. :shrug:

[Divameow77]

51. 70 % Dixie

just under the Mason-Dixon line.

I have lived in the south (mostly Georgia) alot, now in Minnesota.

[dusty64]

53. 38% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee

Seeing that I've lived in Central New York my whole life this is no surprise.

[jojog]

54. 97% Dixie

Do I Win?

[DemBones DemBones]

55. Well, hon, what'd you get wrong?

;-)

[In_The_Wind]

59. Yee Haw!

:thumbsup:

[Taverner]

57. 44% Yankee - I guess they think I'm a midwesterner

Since I wa'nt a Dixie either....

[Sugar Smack]

58. 55% (Dixie). Right on the Mason-Dixon Line

I don't usually like those quizzes, but this one was pretty good!

[enigami]

60. Me too 55% er

which is geographically correct for me

[ernstbass]

61. 85% Dixie

True to my roots!!

[mermaid]

63. Bump

Hell, someone sent it to me via email and I thought it was cute, and a lot of folks might enjoy it, so I posted here.

And for the record, y'all..."Caught" = "kawt."
And it is most definitely a yard sale.
And it is also Mischief Night, damn ya's...
LOL
Hope everyone's having fun with this!

[Bridget Burke]

64. 79% Dixie....

But I got several answers from the Great Lakes.

I was raised in Texas but my environment included Midwestern & a bit of New England. Again: Great Lakes?

[hyphenate]

65. I's definitely a Yank!

Born and bred in Boston, after all!!!

[distantearlywarning]

67. 35% Yankee.

Most of my responses came up "Northeast US" or "New England" which is funny because I was raised in the Southwest but now live in NE US. I knew there was a reason why I felt comfortable in this area from the moment I arrived!

[Aristus]

69. 50%. Barely in Yankee territory.

Well, since I was born and raised in Texas, and grew up all over the country as an Army brat, I guess it figures.

[Midlodemocrat]

70. 45% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.

[MiniMandaRuth]

71. 50% Yank.

Cool.

[swimboy]

72. 79% Dixie

Child of the South. I know all the stories. I'll be the crazy uncle some day.

[Lady Freedom]

73. 43% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.

well what do expect? I live in Missouri, and in some cases i pronounce it misery.

[ashling]

74. 2 problems w/ your poll

1) "Dixie" and "Redneck" are not the same thang. You kin be Southern without being a Redneck!

2) I scored 90% Dixie, does that make me 80 - 90, or 90 - 100?
:)

[mermaid]

78. Hmmmm

1. True enuff. I'm 56% Dixie and in no way am I a redneck.

2. You choose. they only give ya ten choices, so I went 10 percent each.

[IntravenousDemilo]

94. Y'all are all "Yankees" in the Great White North, though. n/m

[NaturalHigh]

76. 65% Dixie

It kind of surprised me. I thought I would score more Dixie than that.

[deadparrot]

77. 58% (Dixie). Right on the Mason-Dixon Line. nt

[RubyDuby in GA]

80. Only 68%

Everyone knows they're called "jammies" anyways....stupid pajamas question.

I'm more southern than that :cry:

[BamaGirl]

82. 92% Dixie

Wow, more Southern than I thought I guess. :shrug:

Definitely not a redneck, thank you very much lol. ;)

[Karmageddon]

83. 38%, but skipped 1 question. Didn't have "you guys" for the crowd one

I don't use "youse" or "you all" or any of the others. Where I'm from (Chicago), it's "you guys"

[Xipe Totec]

84. 38% Yankee, though I lived in Texas most of my life

And as for #10, it ain't crawfish, nor crayfish neither. Them critters is called mudbugs, and them's good eating!

[gizmo1979]

85. I was robbed

29% my butt.of course it's a bubbler.Assholes.

[Hobarticus]

86. 42% - barely Yankee, living in Iowa...

Sounds about right.

[-..__...]

87. 28% Yankee

[Initech]

88. 70% Dixie yo!

Kind of funny considering I've lived in suburban California my whole life!

[blindpig]

90. 49% Yankee. I don't get it.

1st 29 years 40 miles south of the Mason Dixon, 22 in the world's largest insane asylum. Lots of Midwestern answers.:shrug:

[IntravenousDemilo]

92. 42 per cent Yankee, and I'm Canadian born and bred

We really sound very much alike. That's why we can pass. We just have to remember not to say "a boat" for "about".

BTW, I've figured out why so many of you Yanks think we say "a boot". It's because southerners pronounce "boot" the way Canucks say "boat". Oh, and "Canuck" rhymes with "fuck", not "book" as I've sometimes heard.

To us, a "sack" is exclusively made from cloth, like burlap or gunny. Everything else is a bag, including Barbara Bush. "Soda" is either cream soda or club soda. Everything else is "pop". The only question that didn't give a result we use in Canada was the drive-through beer thing. In Ontario, where I am now, they've never heard of it. In Saskatchewan, where I'm from, it's called "off-sale", and it's generally a drive up window behind a hotel watering hole.

And our accent (in English anyway) is pretty uniform right from the west coast through Ontario and Quebec. But when you get to Atlantic Canada, there's an identifiable difference.

[Lisa]

100. there are some accent differences in Southern Ontario

The Niagara Peninsula, for example, has been settled for a fairly long time, and has some characteristics which are like western New York (yet for some reason people seem to be able to tell which side of the border others are from, after a couple of minutes ... even if Canadians from elsewhere in the country think that we're Americans).

I think there's a dialect map in Robert MacNeil's "The Story of English".

[crispini]

93. 75% Dixie.

I think the "Coke" for all soft drinks probably put me over the line. :P

[TomInTib]

95. 98%- might as well move back to Texas

[RoyGBiv]

97. 97% Dixie ...

[DawgHouse]

98. 68% Dixie

And that Mischief night stuff is all about the debbil. Ya'll are gonna burn in hail!

[Lisa]

99. Canadian (Southern Ontario) -- scored at 35% Yankee

(Which, according to the quiz, is "definitely" Yankee.)

I suppose that the connection is through the United Empire Loyalists -- many of whom were from the Great Lakes area and NE -- and who still influence the cultural background where I was raised.

By the way, mermaid -- thanks for posting! I am sending this to a friend who teaches cultural geography of North America.

[mermaid]

113. No Problem

Glad you enjoyed it...let me know what kind of results your friend gets. I'm just totally interested, I thought it was a fun little quiz. Figgered others would enjoy it just as much as I did.

[Beaverhausen]

101. Drive thru liquor stores? Where do they have those?

that's just not right!!!

I'm 41% Yankee.

[Skip Intro]

102. I'm sorry its pah-jah-mahs, not pah-jam-uhs.

I can't believe I'm 70% dixie...

[1monster]

103. 48% Barely Yankee but my son, native born to Florida is

51% Dixie Right on the Mason Dixon Line.

[doc03]

104. 55% Dixie "Right on the Mason Dixon line"

Good match for me Southeastern Ohio. Never heard of that bug that rolls up in a ball though, the only thing I could think of is a caterpillar.

[AbbeyRoad]

105. 55% (Dixie). Right on the Mason-Dixon Line

I thought of another question for the quiz. Do you say pen and pin the same way(pin)? I do which I didn't really have an issue until college when I was around people from other regions. I asked to borrow a pen and got a quizzical look until I specified fountain pen.

[recoveringdittohed]

106. 76% Dixie

Although born in Ohio & moved back to Ohio at age 27, I was razed in the South (Tennessee)

[lizziegrace]

107. 84% Dixie

Sorry, but I spent over 20 years in the south. I say Lusiana and Missippi. It's also nawlins. I say y'all and call any carbonated drink a Coke. "You want a Coke? What kind? A Mr. Pibb?

We "cut out the lights" and "carry mamma to the doctor". Since I've been in the north 10 years, it's a bit toned down but I can drawl with the best.

That's why *'s fake drawl makes me crazy!

[Giant Robot]

108. 45% Yankee

n/t

[lizziegrace]

109. Lots of Tennesseeans

I lived in Memphis and graduated from Ole Miss. Please don't hold it against me! I've also lived in NC, AL, CT, OH, TX, TN, IL, SC, MS, NC, OH (again), Misery and back to Ohio for good. Not bad for being forty-something you think??

:crazy:

[hickman1937]

110. 36% "You are definitely a Yankee." n/t

[rateyes]

111. 76%---Damn..

it said my neck must be at least a little pink.

[fudge stripe cookays]

112. 66% Dixie

Texas for 35 years. Go figure. :D

FSC

[smbolisnch]

114. 55% Dixie.

[BreweryYardRat]

115. 50% Yankee

And both my parents are from South Carolina, and I live in Florida.

Talk about odd...