# How dixie/yankee are you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 20, 2004, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163 "2004-02-20T05:30:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jesleigh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@jesleigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesleigh)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/1 "2004-02-20T05:30:22Z")
[Take a quiz](http://www.chuckchamblee.com/dom/fun/yankee_dixie_quiz.htm) I found this, and after all the dialect threads that I have seen, I thought it would fit well here. Just for the record, I am 81% Dixie. ---
**Author:** ![MinniePurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@MinniePurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MinniePurl)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/2 "2004-02-20T05:50:51Z")
I’m 60% Dixie, which is a bit odd since I grew up in Colorado and both my parents grew up near Lake Michigan. ---
**Author:** ![AvariceAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/958977/32.png) [@AvariceAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AvariceAngel)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/3 "2004-02-20T05:53:31Z")
63% Dixie, and I was born and raised in southern New Jersey (by a Yankee family, no less). ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/4 "2004-02-20T05:56:44Z")
47% Yankee, which sort of makes sense considering I’ve spent most of my life in Toronto. I thought it would be a lot higher though. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/5 "2004-02-20T05:56:53Z")
81% (Dixie). Did you have any Confederate ancestors? Da-yamn! * * * I’m a gypsy Texan. ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/6 "2004-02-20T05:59:37Z")
Scratch my above response. Having now read the instructions I realised that changing an answer doesn’t actually change it. So by retaking the test, I got a 57% Dixie. That makes even less sense. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/7 "2004-02-20T06:00:05Z")
46% yankee. Most of my responses ended up in the “common throughout the US” catagory. And I thought everyone called it cabbage night. Only prevalant in VT and western MA? Huh. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/8 "2004-02-20T06:18:18Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > And I thought everyone called it cabbage night. Only prevalant in VT and western MA? Huh. And Canada. 😃 I’m 44% Yankee which is odd considering I was born and raised in Tennessee by parents that were thoroughly Southern (although in my mom’s case, she was from NYC but otherwise acclimated) and am now living in Nebraska. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/9 "2004-02-20T06:27:28Z")
44%, barely a Yankee, which is good because because I now live in Dixie… ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/10 "2004-02-20T06:33:19Z")
When my Dad had to go to Central America (several countries) in the early 70s on oil business, there were graffitis every where saying things like “Yankee Go Home!” and the like. The government guide apologised to Dad and his crew about it. Dad said, “Don’t bother us none. We’re from Texas.” ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/11 "2004-02-20T06:49:46Z")
91% Dixie. Where did that 9% creep in? Three little trips to Camden, Maine and my life is changed forever? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/12 "2004-02-20T06:54:46Z")
My 19% must have slipped in from when I lived in California. At least it was _Southern_ California! ---
**Author:** ![TitoBenito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2acd7d/32.png) [@TitoBenito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TitoBenito)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/13 "2004-02-20T07:46:45Z")
Get a bad full of coke (most likely a Dr. Pepper) and beer from the Party Barn ofn the feeder for the crawdad fest. 95% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father? Haha I the most southern guy here! Suprising concidering I don’t have a southern accent and I was born in Los Angeles. Most of my answers were either general usage or special Texas or specifically Houston words. I didn’t have many southeastern words. ---
**Author:** ![TitoBenito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2acd7d/32.png) [@TitoBenito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TitoBenito)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/14 "2004-02-20T07:48:01Z")
Get a bag full of coke (most likely a Dr. Pepper) and beer from the Party Barn off the feeder for the crawdad fest. ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/15 "2004-02-20T07:52:57Z")
68% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score! Yeehaw. So I’m a southerner who says “yous” for “ya’ll” and is a little more dialectually inclined towards Savannah than Houston. ---
**Author:** ![TitoBenito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2acd7d/32.png) [@TitoBenito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TitoBenito)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/16 "2004-02-20T07:57:14Z")
75% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score! I just became less souther. I realized I would I only say route as root if I was talking about a specifc road like Route 66, but I’d say it as rout for normal noun usage. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/17 "2004-02-20T09:15:11Z")
92% Dixie. Everyone’s always telling me I don’t have a Southern accent, but by gum I did grow up down here. ---
**Author:** ![Soup\_du\_jour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Soup\_du\_jour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup_du_jour)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/18 "2004-02-20T09:22:36Z")
58 percent Dixie. Yee-haw! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/19 "2004-02-20T11:03:54Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > 46% yankee. Most of my responses ended up in the “common throughout the US” catagory. I scored 68% Dixie getting similar answers for most of mine. Maybe 2 came up as “predominantly in the southeast” - I spent my formative years in the Baltimore area and I promise I have not been assimilated despite living in Florida for 17 of the last 20 years. I don’t drink sweet tea and I don’t like grits… I question the accuracy of this quiz. ---
**Author:** ![chattywine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5daacb/32.png) [@chattywine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chattywine)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/20 "2004-02-20T11:59:02Z")
48% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category. I’m Californian (northern). Odd, well, maybe not. Must have Mr Chatty (Sicilian) take it later. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163.md?page=2)