Are you a Yankee or a Rebel??? Fun test ...

[Seabiscuit]

My wife was surfing the net for a dictionary and found this unique and fun test. Doesn't take long.

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


Turns out I'm 34% percent Yankee.

[hyphenate]

1. I'm a Yankee

at 38%. Considering I was born and raised in Massachusetts, that's a good thing. :)

[Rockholm]

77. Rebel by Birth..Yankee by Choice.

On edit = 67% Rebel.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

2. i'm 79% (Dixie).

79% (Dixie). Your neck must be at least pink!

[wicket]

3. "Cabbage night"??

Having lived in either Vermont or Massachusetts all my life, I have never heard the night before Halloween referred to as this. Heh :)

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

[Strawman]

4. 33% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.

[SteppingRazor]

5. I'm 68% Dixie... or 32% Yankee...

Yeehaw!

[Extend a Hand]

6. cute

81% (Dixie). Do you still use Confederate money?
I'm from Alabama ;)

I can think of a couple more they should add.

[BlueStateBlue]

7. Hmph! 44% Yankee! Born & Raised in Jersey. Who knew?? nt

[Ezlivin]

8. 41% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.

OMG! I was born in Tennessee, raised in Alabama, Mississippi and from fourth grade on in Florida.

But I read a LOT and didn't like the sound of the drawl. Hmmmm.

[vptpt]

48. Florida is only part of the south in a

geographical sense. It could break off and float up to the New Jersey area and nobody would notice a thing.

[hyphenate]

81. Especially if Jeb is still Gov!

:rofl:

[mwooldri]

9. This Englishman is right on the line...

60% to the south.

Though some of the questions I would have given alternative answers. Not bad considering I'm from southern England and live in... NC.

[supernova]

102. Would you like to get together sometime?

With some of us other NC DUers? :hi:

[htuttle]

10. 28% (Yankee)

I even use all the weird Great Lakes slang.

[TomInTib]

11. 80% Dixie. Figures

It is the other 20% that has me worried.

[ceile]

74. 79% Dixie

I didn't know "feeder" road was local to Houston. Maybe that's why people look at me funny when I say that instead of "access".

[TomInTib]

79. Kinda like "freeway"

I now reside in California (2 years) but spent the vast majority of my life in Texas.

Being well-traveled, most of my accent has been left in remote corners. So when I say things like "feeder road" or "tumped over" I get some strange looks usually followed by "Where are you from?".

Or "Drunk as Cooter Brown".

VIVA TEJAS!

[helderheid]

12. 41% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.

[Tari]

19. Actually, you're definitely a yankee. "The higher the score, the deeper

from the south you are coming."

This from the site:

To find out how much Southern blood your speech shows, simply choose the words you use below, then press "Compute My Score!" at the end. The Alpha Dictionary will compute your score and tell you where you're coming from: are you (all) speaking Bubbaese or are you(se) a Yankee Doodle Dandy? The higher your score, the deeper from the South you are coming.

I scored 43%, definitely a yankee.

[helderheid]

45. I just cut and pasted!

I've lived in 10 states but both parents are from California

[tjwash]

13. 53% (Dixie). Right on the Mason-Dixon Line, however consider...

...that I was born in Florida, and lived in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Cuba, Virginia, and California before I was 12. So I sort of expected about 50%

[schmuls]

14. 38% definitely a Yankee. found the Midwest definitions interesting and ri

right-on!

[LondonReign2]

15. 24% (Yankee)

Due to all my upper Midwest vernacular

[laruemtt]

16. 49% Yankee - barely in the Yankee category.

once a new yawker always a new yawker!

[ixion]

17. 45% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.

I like to mix up my colloquialisms. :+

[realisticphish]

18. 49%

but i'm in central ohio, and we have a pretty strange blend of linguistic tendencies

[Call me Deacon Blues]

20. Dixie (65%)

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[calico1]

21. 26% I am a Yankee doodle dandy! n/t

[LynzM]

97. Me, too, Calico! 26% (Yankee). You are a Yankee Doodle Dandy.

[Nimrod2005]

22. 57% Dixie

[Penndems]

23. 70% (Dixie). Just under the Mason-Dixon Line

Which is about right - I'm a native Virginian.

[bigjohn16]

24. Born and raised in Tennessee but I got 44% Yankee. nt

[Avalux]

25. 34% - definitely a yankee.

No matter that I've lived in Texas for the past 20 years. ;-)

[urizenxvii]

26. 49% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.

makes sense--we middle Californians (bay area) have a neutral-leaning-northeast vocabulary...

[Horse with no Name]

27. 51% (Dixie). Right on the Mason-Dixon Line

Not bad I guess.:)

[Oceansaway]

28. 35% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.

[dad]

29. my score

60% (Dixie). Right on the Mason-Dixon Line

[Historic NY]

30. Hummmm 41% Yankee barely.........

lived here all my life....but have traveled around and have relatives that located to the south.

[alcibiades_mystery]

34. I'm a NYC boy and I got 41% Yankee too

I think the problem is that we don't use distinctly New England expressions, which seemed to be favored for Yankee, but use expressions that are more commonly used across the US (no bias as the test says). There's also a class bias to the test. One of the questions asks how you would address a group of people. I answered "You all," even though "you'se" is the "correct" New York City answer. Now, when I'm hanging out with friends in a bar, I may say "you'se," but I usually adjust for audience and generally say "you all." I basically had to beat my really street, really New York accent out of myself during college, because (in my mind at the time) it made me seem working class and therefore "dumber." Obviously, now, I see the really disturbing class bias that underwrote that assumption, but I have been pretty successful at expunging much of my Brooklynese from my speech. This kind of thing, it seems to me, is not addressed down south as much. Everyone from the South is proud of a southern accent (even though the same class bias may cause some to stop listening when that twang starts twangin'), while accent is definitely tied to social class in a place like New York City.

[thecrow]

31. 38% Yankee

Many of my answers were from the Midwest, where my father was born.
Interesting test!

[stopbush]

32. I'm a Yankee. We won the war. :)

[alcibiades_mystery]

36. We did, in fact, win the war

That's a damn fine point. The North won the war. The South lost the war, was completely prostrate and defeated by the end of the war. The rebellion was quashed.

[stopbush]

55. Only Southerners still obsess about the Civil War.

In fact, we (the North) would kick their asses right now if another CW broke out...which under bushco isn't an impossibility.

[Uncle Joe]

61. With 3 to 1 odds population wise, the Navy,

70%-80% of the industry and railroad tracks, you should have. The question is, what took so long?

[alcibiades_mystery]

69. We wanted to let you have a little glory

So you'd have something to fucking talk about for the next 150 years other than your complete, humiliating defeat.

[Uncle Joe]

71. Well bless your heart,

thank you for your graciousness.

[alcibiades_mystery]

72. No problem

:evilgrin:

[ChickMagic]

33. 77% Dixie

They say my neck is pink.

[Cornus]

35. 29% - a Yankee Doodle Dandy

[chemp]

37. 49% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.

Born and raised in New England.

Spent two years down south.

Hymph!

[Raydawg1234]

38. 36% yankee

But I don't have any sourthern blood in me, so I don't see how that 36% means anything.

[QC]

39. 81% Dixie here. n/t

[stop the bleeding]

40. 57% (Dixie). Right on the Mason-Dixon Line - that was fun thank you n/t

[jrw14125]

41. 57% dixie

[MyNameGoesHere]

42. 57% (Dixie). Right on the Mason-Dixon Line

And would you believe i actually live 2 miles from the Mason Dixon line?

[pitohui]

43. 81 percent dixie

do i still use confederate money?

i'll take the fifth on that question!

[no_more_rhyming]

44. 85% (Dixie). Do you still use Confederate money?

Texan by way of west coast. I love the south.

[TX-RAT]

73. I got the same thing, congrats

[insane_cratic_gal]

46. 31% Yank but i'm from NH originally

Living in PA though, I laughed out loud over the Creek question. It drives me nuts here.. and Youins

[vptpt]

47. 81% Dixie

Hell yeah.

[FlaGranny]

49. I'm 36 - definitely a yankee.

even if I do call myself FlaGranny. :-)

[RethugAssKicker]

50. 34%... definitely a Yankee

Good score. I'm from NY.

[Bake]

51. 97% Dixie. And damn proud of it.

Bake

[Seabiscuit]

52. So... what's the difference between all and oil?

[Bake]

60. And that pointy thing you punch holes in leather with, too.

They're "awl" the same! At least they sound the same!

Bake

[Seabiscuit]

89. Dayam! Fuhgot 'bout dem "awls".

[Rowdyboy]

54. You beat me, buddy....

All I got was a pitiful 86% Dixie. Need to work on that heritage thing a little more!

[Bake]

56. I grew up calling that little road an "access road"

According to the test, that IS a Southern thing. However, here in Jackson, Mississippi, it's called a "frontage road." So the test MIGHT be a little bit off.

Bake

[Rowdyboy]

57. That was one I missed....We didn't have such things in Laurel and the

first one I ever expereinced was the "frontage" road in Jackson so you're absolutely right!

[Lochloosa]

53. 84% (Dixie). Do you still use Confederate money?

[noahmijo]

58. 20% Yankee and not the least friggin bit ashamed

[Uncle Joe]

59. 76% Dixie,

it says my neck is pink. Regarding yins, I used to joke with my best friend from Pittsburgh while in the Marines, when he used it, that it was Chinese Money.

[nonconformist]

62. 31% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.

I'm from metro Detroit, and my responses nailed that.

[GaDemo]

63. 53%

Said i'm right on the Mason-Dixon line.I guess living in Atlanta for 27 years is paying off.:rofl:

[cally]

64. Barely a Yankee (48 percent)

I think this makes sense because I'm from California. We probably picked up expressions from all regions.

[nomatrix]

65. I don't need a test

to tell me I'm a damn Yankee! I've been called it all my life and always say "thank-you".

[Warren DeMontague]

66. I'm an Emperor Norton with a hearty dose of Mrs. O'Leary's Cow.

The individual question results clearly betrayed my Chicago-area midwestern roots.

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

[ernstbass]

67. 86% Dixie and proud of it!!!

[janx]

68. Barely a Yankee.

I love language, and this test is really fun.

[cynatnite]

70. 43% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category. n/t

[long_green]

75. 70% rebel

New Orleans native. Actually expected a lower score.

[slackmaster]

76. 38% Yankee

And proud.

I think.

:freak:

BTW I thought a doodlebug was the same as a water strider a.k.a. Jesus bug.

[SPKrazy]

78. 66% Dixie!

Which is about right for me!

[bigwillq]

80. 36% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.

:bounce:

[meow2u3]

82. 26% (Yankee). You are a Yankee Doodle Dandy.

And damn proud of it!

[justabob]

83. 83% (Dixie)

I don't have much of an accent though if that counts for anything :shrug:

[texas1928]

84. 86% (Dixie). Do you still use Confederate money?

[Coyote_Bandit]

85. "76% (Dixie). Your neck must be at least pink!" n/t

[Ramsey]

86. Says I'm a Yankee

But I'm confused, because it says 49% Yankee (barely a Yankee), but wouldn't 49% actually make me barely a Rebel?

It's interesting that my speech pattern is mixed, because I grew up in the South but have lived in the Northeast for 15 years.

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

87. This test isn't accurate

I checked my score at first 66% dixie, changed one answer to a question and my score goes down to 55%. I don't have anything close to a southern accent, So I don't take this test seriously at all. I do have a hybrid of a Chicago and indiana accent. I do get tired of people who believe an Indiana accent is southern, If anyone wants to do a comparison watch a nascar race and listen to Tony Stewart talk during an interview then listen any of the southern drivers talk and there's a big difference.

[no name no slogan]

93. If you're south of Iowa, you sound "southern" to these ears

Southern Ohioans also sounded very southern to me, too, as a kid. Even people from southern Iowa have a "twang" in their speech that sounds faintly southern, for that matter.

[IA_Seth]

95. Sure do...

I am in Cedar Rapids and I am 55% dixie.

I don't think I SOUND southern, but we use a lot of southern words.

I suppose that could be biased since my momma was raised in Arkansas and she still has the accent. I could have picked it up from her.

[GalleryGod]

88. Yes.

19%(Yankee) Gimmee my pinstripes, Stugotz!

[malmapus]

90. 91% (Dixie). Is General Lee your grandfather?

Dang it, wher'd I get that 9% Yankee at!?

[Shell Beau]

91. 87% (Dixie). Do you still use Confederate money?

But of course, I live in Mississippi!

[kick-ass-bob]

92. 73% (Dixie). Your neck must be at least pink!

Yay.

:P

[Spider Jerusalem]

94. 44% (Yankee).

I have a fairly neutral accent; it's definitely NOT southern, despite living in the south since the age of eight.

[bleedingheart]

96. 36%

I am a Yankee

[Catchawave]

98. I'm on the Mason-Dixon line...

Born in Brooklyn...now living La Vida Loca in Virginia :shrug:

[NewJeffCT]

99. 22% (Yankee). You are a Yankee Doodle Dandy.

I guess I'm pretty blue.

[purr]

100. 39% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.

[supernova]

101. 73% (Dixie). Your neck must be at least pink!

Cute test. :-)

It sounds about right.

[William Bloode]

103. No surprise here.

94% Dixie. Is General Lee your grandfather?

Ah, as one of my tattoo's say "American by birth, Southern by the grace of god".

[Seabiscuit]

104. Wow. Just found this on page 9. Lasted 2 days w/103 posts!

[hellbound-liberal]

105. 52% Dixie, Guess I lived in Florida too long.

I know many parts of Florida closely resemble the North but Okeechobee and Tallahassee are definitely the South!

[unsavedtrash]

106. 73% (Dixie). Your neck must be at least pink!

[DanCa]

107. 26 % A yankee Doodle Dandy?

While I just stick a feather in my cap and call it macarooni.