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Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
The Alpha Dictionary Site ^ | Dr, Goodword

Posted on 04/04/2005 10:55:38 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch

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

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

How do you pronounce Aunt?


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KEYWORDS: diction; dixie; rebel; yankee
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To: NRA2BFree

83% (Dixie). Did you have any Confederate ancestors?

Yes, all of them.


41 posted on 04/04/2005 12:58:46 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: stainlessbanner

61% (Dixie) Just below the Mason-Dixon line. Seeing as how I'm from South Carolina, I reckon all those years in the Navy rubbing shoulders with yankees has rubbed off something on me.


42 posted on 04/04/2005 1:02:11 PM PDT by aomagrat (Where weapons are not allowed, it is best to carry weapons.)
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To: beeler
True. I feel rather confident that Houston was anti-Slavery. I don't really know how he felt about succession.

Just the opposite. He was a slave owner, but was strongly against Texas secession, and said so loudly --- as Texas governor in 1861, he refused to take a loyalty oath to the Confederate government, and as a result was impeached by the fire-eaters in the legislature. He predicted, accurately, that slavery, the South, and Texas, would be destroyed in a war with the North.

43 posted on 04/04/2005 1:07:22 PM PDT by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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To: SwinneySwitch
26% (Yankee). You show a very strong Yankee score

Most answers were Great Lakes.

44 posted on 04/04/2005 1:10:02 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan ("Mama, take this judgeship off of Greer, he can't use it, anymore")
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To: SwinneySwitch

73% (Dixie). You are a solid Southerner!

Yeeeehaaaawwww ... damn straight.

Ain't it great bein' Southern?


45 posted on 04/04/2005 1:14:54 PM PDT by Jackson57
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To: SwinneySwitch

Don't worry, I've taken this test before and it's completely bogus.

Example: How do you pronounce route?

The site claim that "rhymes with clout" is strongly biased Northeast, which is completely wrong. Anyone in the Boston area knows it's "root".


46 posted on 04/04/2005 1:15:19 PM PDT by Hoodlum91
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To: SwinneySwitch
86% (Dixie). Did you have any Confederate ancestors?

Hell yeah! Both sides of the family.

Yee Haw!

47 posted on 04/04/2005 1:15:39 PM PDT by cowboyway (My heroes have always been cowboys.)
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To: cowboyway

Damn, I'm jealous. I've been living in Taxachusetts too long. They've corrupted me. I don't talk as good as I used to.


48 posted on 04/04/2005 1:17:02 PM PDT by Jackson57
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To: Jackson57

92% Rebel


49 posted on 04/04/2005 1:25:40 PM PDT by Sybeck1 (Michael, is it the movie and books deals you're waiting for, my boy?)
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To: SwinneySwitch
50% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

Yikes!!! How'd this happen? The farthest north I've ever been is Wyoming- and that was for only a short time when I was a tot. I've never been east of Houston, or west of Vegas. Quick, fellow southerners, what do I have to do for penance? Stand out in the street with the Stars and Bars? Sing Dixie? Help!!!:)
50 posted on 04/04/2005 1:30:16 PM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper (When did Michael Schiavo hire Baghdad Bob to represent him?)
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To: beeler

He was anti- secession and was forced out of his role as governor of Texas in the early 1860's. Does that make up for me being 50% Yankee?


51 posted on 04/04/2005 1:33:24 PM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper (When did Michael Schiavo hire Baghdad Bob to represent him?)
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To: So Cal Rocket

I'm from Southern California as well...my mother is from Texas and my Dad from West Virginia....I scored 77% -Solid Dixie! LOL.


52 posted on 04/04/2005 1:35:06 PM PDT by FeliciaCat
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To: Jackson57
Are you being held hostage or doing some long range recon? :~)
53 posted on 04/04/2005 1:37:56 PM PDT by cowboyway (My heroes have always been cowboys.)
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To: Ditto
What's weird is that he owned slaves but opposed the expansion of slavery and the Confederacy. Yet more evidence that the issues inspiring the War of Northern Aggression were much more complicated than is commonly taught or thought.
54 posted on 04/04/2005 1:41:36 PM PDT by beeler ("When you’re running down my country, Hoss you’re walking on the fighting side of me.")
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To: SwinneySwitch
29% (Yankee). You show a very strong Yankee score.

Minnesota, so not too suprising.

55 posted on 04/04/2005 1:41:39 PM PDT by Zeroisanumber
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To: SwinneySwitch

86% Southern & Proud of it!


56 posted on 04/04/2005 1:56:54 PM PDT by TexConfederate1861 (Still Free........Republic!)
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To: beeler

Allow me to correct you. Sam Houston OWNED slaves and didn't have a problem with it. He was anti-secession.


57 posted on 04/04/2005 1:58:24 PM PDT by TexConfederate1861 (Still Free........Republic!)
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To: stainlessbanner
110% rebel-through & through!

free dixie,sw

58 posted on 04/04/2005 2:24:02 PM PDT by stand watie (being a damnyankee is no better than being a racist. it is a LEARNED prejudice against dixie.)
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To: beeler
What's weird is that he owned slaves but opposed the expansion of slavery and the Confederacy. Yet more evidence that the issues inspiring the War of Northern Aggression were much more complicated than is commonly taught or thought.

Actually, that attitude was pretty common. Many slave owners had no problem with restricting expansion. Just as many Free Soilers were content with slavery where it already existed. But as with many things political, the most radical set the agenda and through their rhetoric, the situation got beyond the control of more moderate voices like Houston's.

It is difficult for us to appreciate how divisive the Kansas-Nebraska Act was.

59 posted on 04/04/2005 2:24:18 PM PDT by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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To: dljordan
83% (Dixie). Did you have any Confederate ancestors?

Yes, all of them.

On my dad's side, my grandma was from the Knoxville, TN area and my grandpa was from down close to Houston, TX. My mom's parents were from Iowa. I was born 11 miles from the TX/NM border, but now I live close to the NM/AZ border in north west NM.

60 posted on 04/04/2005 2:29:28 PM PDT by NRA2BFree (Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge ..)
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