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Yankee or Dixie Quiz
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Posted on 03/27/2012 11:19:22 AM PDT by navysealdad

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To: navysealdad

35%, raised in New England by mid-western parents.

No one can identify my accent, BTW


41 posted on 03/27/2012 12:46:31 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (No wonder this administration favors abortion; everything they have done is an abortion)
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To: navysealdad
38% Dixie for me, definitely a Yankee. Got quite a few "New Yawk/New Joisey" answers.

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.

42 posted on 03/27/2012 12:51:14 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: navysealdad

About 70 percent Dixie.

That’s pretty good for growing up in east central Indiana and living up on the Michigan state line :-)


43 posted on 03/27/2012 12:51:35 PM PDT by Cloverfarm (This too shall pass ...)
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To: BuffaloJack

Advanced test - 100%

What do you call the belt-like piece of rubber for holding things together? The only answer is duct tape.


44 posted on 03/27/2012 12:56:35 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Mr. Lucky

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!


45 posted on 03/27/2012 1:23:42 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Mr. Lucky

Not where I come from. But then, you guys probably don’t use “Fuggedabouddit” and “You gotta problem wit’ dat?” much.


46 posted on 03/27/2012 1:27:02 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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I've lived in the South since 1986. Spent the first 32 years of life from Philly to Boston.

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...

47 posted on 03/27/2012 1:38:38 PM PDT by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
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To: Prov1322

In such a circumstance, the socially accepted response to your wife is: “Just you pay it no never mind, Hon’.”


48 posted on 03/27/2012 1:43:00 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: Mr. Lucky
LOL!

I was just in too much shock hearing that come from my own lips...

49 posted on 03/27/2012 1:46:08 PM PDT by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
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To: navysealdad

83% Dixie here. I guess those five years in Michigan didn’t take. ;)


50 posted on 03/27/2012 3:16:09 PM PDT by MikeD (We live in a world where babies are like velveteen rabbits that only become real if they are loved.)
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To: navysealdad

I appear to be from all over. I wonder how I managed that?


51 posted on 03/27/2012 3:16:18 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: bgill

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.


52 posted on 03/27/2012 3:18:04 PM PDT by Raymann
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To: navysealdad

43% — raised in the Southern Tier of NY State — the dark brown part of the economic map


53 posted on 03/27/2012 4:33:43 PM PDT by imardmd1 (An armed society is a polite (and safer) society)
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Shoot - Think I was in my twenties when I found out ‘damn yankee’ is TWO words,


54 posted on 03/27/2012 5:12:52 PM PDT by S.O.S121.500 (That Kenyan bastard is not my president. ENFORCE the Bill of Rights.)
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To: navysealdad

89% Dixie. Lived in the midwest until I was 14, moved South. Southern took I guess!


55 posted on 03/27/2012 6:08:30 PM PDT by Roses0508
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To: re_nortex
My best friend and I both lived in a lovely TN city and we each worked for a a different northern based company. The company I worked for sent up and coming southerners to school to homogenize their language. The company my girlfriend worked for simply adopted “fixin to” once they heard it in a conference call :-).
This same girlfriend acquired a crowd of admirers at the Freepers Balls in DC during the 2004 inauguration. Under the influence of all that lovely alcohol her TN accent/dialect became very pronounced.
56 posted on 03/27/2012 6:27:49 PM PDT by Roses0508
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To: re_nortex

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!


57 posted on 03/28/2012 3:57:42 AM PDT by casinva
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To: navysealdad; Mrs. Don-o
92% Dixie. Is General Lee your grandfather?!

I figure the 8% has something to do with the Yankee I married.

58 posted on 03/28/2012 4:08:16 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever.)
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To: DannyTN

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).


59 posted on 03/28/2012 5:18:40 AM PDT by fredhead (It's my Herbie year...check out the number on the side of the famous VW.)
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To: Mr. Lucky

The conversation should have properly concluded with your wife’s utterance of the facially submissive, but substantively dominant, exclamation: “Well, bless your heart”.


60 posted on 03/28/2012 8:10:58 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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