# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/21 "2004-02-20T12:07:19Z")
58% Dixie. Well, I did spend a year in Tallahassee… What was interesting to me is how many midwesternisms I had. I was born in Michigan and lived there till I was five, but was raised by two Philadelphians with generic East Coast accents, and have pretty much a generic East Coast accent myself. Did spend three years in the midwest as an adult, which is where I picked up “pop” for “soda,” which has stuck with me for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/22 "2004-02-20T12:18:40Z")
I too question the accuracy of the quiz. I scored 47% Yankee and I was born in Manhattan, lived the first part of my life in New York State and the the last 17 years here in the Boston area. A lot of their questions don’t really seem to distinguish South from North, but some localized word usage vs. a more generalized word usage. Also a lot of the terms seemed to be midwestern, not southern. And I don’t have any specific word for a bug that rolls into a ball when touched…I don’t think I’ve ever seen one. How do you folks that call all soft drinks “coke” distinguish when you want something other than the most famous product of the Coca Cola company? “Would you like something to drink?” “Sure, I’d love a coke. A diet root beer coke.” 😕 ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/23 "2004-02-20T12:38:30Z")
97% Dixie. I musta lost 3% from spending that year in SeeAttUll. (I’ll give up a few more percentage points if someone’ll come down here and teach us how make beer like that) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/24 "2004-02-20T12:42:49Z")
89% Dixie. Gee, I wonder if growing up and living all my life in Jawja had anything to do with it? 😃 I figure I’ve lost 11% because my job requires fairly frequent travel across the country, mainly in the midwest. The thing about the midwest and the south is that there doesn’t appear to be a whole lot of difference in the folk. We’re all just good people! ---
**Author:** ![PaperBlob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@PaperBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaperBlob)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/25 "2004-02-20T12:49:03Z")
52% Dixie. I’m a little surprised, since I’ve lived in New Jersey since I was three and my parents are both from Philadelphia. I did go to college in southwestern Virginia, but the only thing I picked up there that appeared on the quiz is “y’all.” And I’d think my “mischief night” response would cancel that out. I noticed that Twickster and AvariceAngel are from the same area as me and also have scores in the Dixie range. Maybe SE Pa/Southern NJ is a linguistic border area or close cousin to the south. Or maybe we just shouldn’t put too much stock in this quiz. ---
**Author:** ![Merkwurdigliebe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/74df32/32.png) [@Merkwurdigliebe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merkwurdigliebe)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/26 "2004-02-20T13:20:21Z")
yeah, its weird, I got 56 percent dixie then I decided to change the y’all response to the you all one and my score went into the 60’s on the dixie scale. That makes no sense at all considering how yall has to be the most dixie response in there ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/27 "2004-02-20T13:23:50Z")
> [@](#): > > 78% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score! That’s both higher and lower than I expected. Higher considering the response to some of my answers, lower because I would have figured that since I’ve only lived outside of the south for 4 years there would have been a lot more regionalisms in my speech. The only ones that really stood out were “y’all” and “coke”. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/28 "2004-02-20T13:24:01Z")
66% Hmmm…born and bred in VA, as were my parents, and grandparents, and great grandparents, and great great grandparents (stop me when we get to 1630). I guess I’ve been watching too much TV. It done knocked the other 34% of my Dixie-ness right outta my head. ---
**Author:** ![Yossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@Yossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yossarian)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/29 "2004-02-20T13:29:18Z")
57% Dixie. I think that’s probably consistent with having grown up in Texas, with a good chunk of that time (ages 5 to 20) spent in and around Dallas. ---
**Author:** ![Balle\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@Balle\_M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balle_M)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/30 "2004-02-20T13:34:40Z")
> [@Laughing Lagomorph](#): > > How do you folks that call all soft drinks “coke” distinguish when you want something other than the most famous product of the Coca Cola company? > > “Would you like something to drink?” > “Sure, I’d love a coke. A diet root beer coke.” 😕 Not confusing at all. Typical usage: “I’m going to the break room. Ya want a coke?” “Sure. Get me a Doctor Pepper.” Oh…I’m 70% Dixie. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/31 "2004-02-20T13:38:52Z")
> [@Laughing Lagomorph](#): > > How do you folks that call all soft drinks “coke” distinguish when you want something other than the most famous product of the Coca Cola company? You go to a restaurant and may have this exchange: I’d like a coke, please? Sure thing, hon. What kind? Diet coke, thanks. BUT, I am much more likely now to specifically order a “diet coke” over just a coke. And I do, sometimes, order a soda instead of a coke. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/32 "2004-02-20T13:39:07Z")
> [@TitoBenito](#): > > 95% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father? Guess again! > [@](#): > > 100% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father? Nope, he’s my great-great-great-great-great uncle. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/33 "2004-02-20T13:44:10Z")
Oh, if you’re interested in what answers it takes to get 100% b, b, a, b, b, b, d, c, a, c, b, b, a, b, a, b, b, a, a, a. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/34 "2004-02-20T13:45:27Z")
> [@Balle\_M](#): > > Not confusing at all. Typical usage: > > “I’m going to the break room. Ya want a coke?” > > “Sure. Get me a Doctor Pepper.” > > Oh…I’m 70% Dixie. “I’m going to the break room. Ya want a coke?” “Sure. Get me a Coke” (Short pause) “Well, what kind do you want?” “I already told you, dipshit…” Just seems confusing to me. Like calling all makes of cars Chevys. But hey, if it works for you guys… ---
**Author:** ![Grant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a5b964/32.png) [@Grant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grant)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/35 "2004-02-20T13:48:16Z")
50% Yankee. I guess that’s about right. Born in Boston. Raised in Philly. Live in TN now. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/36 "2004-02-20T13:48:18Z")
44% Yankee. A lot of the answers I got pointed out that I use a lot of Michiganisms. I had no idea “Devil’s Night” was such a local term. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/37 "2004-02-20T13:50:59Z")
64% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score! and it’s crawDaddy! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/38 "2004-02-20T14:01:29Z")
94% Dixie, and worried how I missed the other 6%! ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/39 "2004-02-20T14:16:28Z")
“38% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee.” Well, having grown up in NYC and then spent half my life in Boston, I should imagine so. Although one Connecticut reponse to the sandwich question would be ‘grinder’, but I think that term’s dying. And for a bunch of people I say “you guys”, only using “youse” if I’m parodying da Bronx girl thing. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/40 "2004-02-20T14:22:56Z")
55% Dixie, which is odd, since I’m from the North. I had to leave one blank, though, since it didn’t have the option I use (when I address a group of people, I say “you”). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163.md?page=3)