Posted on 03/27/2012 11:19:22 AM PDT by navysealdad
The higher your score, the deeper from the South you are coming.
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35%, raised in New England by mid-western parents.
No one can identify my accent, BTW
What's with this question though:
What's that bug that rolls into a ball when you touch it?
It's called a "ball bug" obviously, and it wasn't even an option to select! All those other names for it sounded gay.
About 70 percent Dixie.
That’s pretty good for growing up in east central Indiana and living up on the Michigan state line :-)
Advanced test - 100%
What do you call the belt-like piece of rubber for holding things together? The only answer is duct tape.
It appears to be more of a rural/urban test to me.”
Or maybe younger versus older. My parents demanded precise English pronunciation with no visible accent. I’ve lived in Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana. Ended up at 48% - barely Dixie and a lot of mine scored in the East or Northeast although I’ve never ever lived there. Real surprise to me!
Not where I come from. But then, you guys probably don’t use “Fuggedabouddit” and “You gotta problem wit’ dat?” much.
I prefer the South for a number of reasons. However, I still am unable to spontaneously say...
"fixin to"
"y'all"
or drop the verb "to be"...as in "...the car needs fixed..."
I did, once, say "darlin'" to a female at a drive-through...it actually scared me.
The lovely Mrs. Prov1322 was also in the car and could not believe that she heard that spontaneously come from my mouth...her concern was for my vocabulary skills...
In such a circumstance, the socially accepted response to your wife is: “Just you pay it no never mind, Hon’.”
I was just in too much shock hearing that come from my own lips...
83% Dixie here. I guess those five years in Michigan didn’t take. ;)
I appear to be from all over. I wonder how I managed that?
I agree with the Tp-ing too. I only got a 60% but I guess they didn’t factor in Southern Louisiana, accents different here and through it has more in common with the South there are a few things like the cot-caught issue that make it different.
But damnit when the waitress asks me for a drink and I say Coke she better ask what kind!
...I usually go for Dr. Pepper.
43% — raised in the Southern Tier of NY State — the dark brown part of the economic map
Shoot - Think I was in my twenties when I found out ‘damn yankee’ is TWO words,
89% Dixie. Lived in the midwest until I was 14, moved South. Southern took I guess!
So scared taking this test! I want SO badly to be a real Texan now but wasn’t sure how I would fare!
I was happy enough with the basic test result:
70% Dixie.Well under the Mason-Dixon Line
(Could have been better, but OK, that’s OK.)
Getting at least that high encouraged me to take the more advance test where I then scored: 46% Dixie. Barely in Yankeedom.
Am I torn between the two or might I be a work in progress?
Thanks for the tag re_nortex!
I figure the 8% has something to do with the Yankee I married.
I replied first, 100% Dixie.
Dad’s family’s been in coastal NC longer than this country has been in existince......since the 1720’s. Mom was from the Cumberland Mountains in TN. I live in VA, courtesy of the USN (Retired).
The conversation should have properly concluded with your wife’s utterance of the facially submissive, but substantively dominant, exclamation: “Well, bless your heart”.
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