# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![CloudCar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@CloudCar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CloudCar)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2004, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/81 "2004-02-21T15:33:44Z")
35% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee. A former roommate of mine lived in Texas for a number of years and learned how to drive there. One day when we were driving around she said something about getting on the “feeder”. I had absolutely no idea what in the hell she was talking about. I thought she meant a road named Feeder Rd. or something like that. Once I figured out what she was talking about I corrected her. It is called a frontage road. ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2004, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/82 "2004-02-21T16:31:34Z")
I’m 65% Dixie. I guess that explains why when I answered the phone at my friend’s house the other day, his aunt heard me and thought I sounded like a southern bell… ---
**Author:** ![TitoBenito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2acd7d/32.png) [@TitoBenito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TitoBenito)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2004, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/83 "2004-02-21T18:14:23Z")
> [@CloudCar](#): > > 35% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee. > > A former roommate of mine lived in Texas for a number of years and learned how to drive there. One day when we were driving around she said something about getting on the “feeder”. I had absolutely no idea what in the hell she was talking about. I thought she meant a road named Feeder Rd. or something like that. > > Once I figured out what she was talking about I corrected her. It is called a frontage road. No, its a feeder 😃 ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2004, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/84 "2004-02-21T19:21:06Z")
Geez something is wrong here. I scored “50% - barely into the Yankee category”. I’ve lived in the Boston area all my life which I thought would guarantee me a far greater degree of Yankeedom. Why didn’t the question ask how do you pronounce ½ ? (The correct response is “harf” of course). Plus I eat fried chicken with a knife and fork which is a trait totally overlooked on the alleged test. Highly Indignantly, Reginald Sargent Cabot Lowell Lodge IV ---
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2004, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/85 "2004-02-21T19:45:55Z")
81% Dixie–and, yup, I do have Confederate ancestors. So, what do you folks who have a special name for Halloween Eve do that night? I’m usually finishing my costume and stocking up on candy for trick-or-treaters myself. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/86 "2004-02-21T20:25:52Z")
I got 50%, a number that’s prit-near meaningless. The remarks on my answers were either “general across the whole U.S.” or “Great Lakes region.” I was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, so the large number of Great Lakes Region answers just confirmed what I already knew. ---
**Author:** ![Daoloth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Daoloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daoloth)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2004, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/87 "2004-02-21T20:28:53Z")
59% Dixie. ---
**Author:** ![TheOnlySaneOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheOnlySaneOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheOnlySaneOne)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2004, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/88 "2004-02-22T05:57:11Z")
50% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category. Makes sense. Was born in Washington, D.C., which is itself on the border. Then moved around Maryland and Virginia before coming to Michigan. And it shall forever be soda. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2004, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/89 "2004-02-22T06:39:16Z")
79% DIXIE. You don’t know how thrilled I am, because my first 9 years were spent in Ohio, before moving to Atlanta. Then another 11 years in Ohio from mid-twenties to mid-thirties. Anyway, southerners have always said I talk like a Yankee and Yankees think I have a southern accent. Now only diehard Mississippians can tell the difference. I can’t wait to get my wife to take the test. You’ve heard people talk about 110%, well that should be her score. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2004, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/90 "2004-02-22T06:53:24Z")
36% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee. Yep. That’s why I started [this thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=239965) After going from New Jersey to Arizona to North Dakota to Montana with a few stops to Canada and Mexico in between, I was a bit confused, eh? Tripler Yup. I’m a Yankee. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2004, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/91 "2004-02-22T06:53:36Z")
45% Yankee. Yeah, in pronunciation maybe. Attitude would be another story. ---
**Author:** ![elscorcho456](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ec9cab/32.png) [@elscorcho456](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elscorcho456)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2004, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/92 "2004-02-22T19:47:17Z")
im 50% yankee. I thought it would be higher since I’ve always lived in a suburb right out Chicago. _shrugs_ ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f1d935/32.png) [@Lady\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Ice)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2004, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/93 "2004-02-22T23:54:23Z")
43% Yankee. Just barely. However, the results of 8 of my questions came up Great Lakes region. This one hit the nail on the head. 1. What’s the night before Halloween called? Answer: Devil’s Night Result: Very common in Michigan. Guess where I live? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f1d935/32.png) [@Lady\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Ice)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/94 "2004-02-23T00:00:37Z")
> [@elscorcho456](#): > > im 50% yankee. I thought it would be higher since I’ve always lived in a suburb right out Chicago. _shrugs_ I think most Mid-Western people are going to come in around the 50%. We really are not Yankees or Dixies. We speak very plainly. Most network television newscasters are from the Mid-West and Plains for this very reason. We’re just us, which is kinda cool if you ask me. ---
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/95 "2004-02-23T00:25:33Z")
61% Dixie. And I’m born and raised central Indiana. But, then again, this area is rife with redneck influence, so I guess it’s rubbed off a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/96 "2004-02-23T01:05:05Z")
I’m 51% Dixie. Appropriate, I guess, since I’ve lived better than three-quarters of my life in the state of Maryland, which is also just barely Dixie. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/97 "2004-02-23T03:51:40Z")
A smidge Yankee. 'Bout right. But they don’t say whether the _route_ in the quiz is the verb or the noun. Verb: _rout_ Noun: _root_ Oh, and until I was well into my teens I thought that **Frontage Road** was a proper name for an avenue not too far from my house… ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/98 "2004-02-23T05:51:00Z")
93% (Dixie) Seems rather high, though I have lived in small-town Texas nearly all my life (and the last three years in Houston). I thought more of the questions should have had an either/or option. I use the following words interchangeably, but had to pick just one: “frosting” and “icing,” “frontage road” and “feeder,” “water fountain” and “drinking fountain,” “bag” and “sack,” and “tennis shoes” and “sneakers.” For some, I picked the one I thought I used most often. For others, I just picked one. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/99 "2004-02-23T15:25:48Z")
38% definitive Yankee. Gonna have me a pop to celebrate. Can’t believe there are people that pronounce cot and caught the same. Or that you don’t know about Devil’s night. That really frosts my cake. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f9b8f/32.png) [@The\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Face)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163/100 "2004-02-23T18:17:22Z")
My score reflects the parallel I live on. .Yankee it calls me, but really I’m neither, since I’m from Wisconsin, I consider myself at the heart of the Midwest 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dixie-yankee-are-you/230163.md?page=6)