# How Yankee are you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 3, 2005, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-yankee-are-you/292754 "2005-03-03T14:09:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-yankee-are-you/292754/1 "2005-03-03T14:09:10Z")
[A Yankee or a Southerner?](http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/yankeetest.html) 44% Yankee (barely). Considering I lived in the Great Lakes states 42 years before moving to Virginia, it fits. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-yankee-are-you/292754/2 "2005-03-03T14:24:54Z")
70% (Dixie). Just under the Mason-Dixon Line WOW! Funky. I have never lived below the Mason-Dixon line. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-yankee-are-you/292754/3 "2005-03-03T14:31:37Z")
100% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father? Uh. What? I was born and raised in Tennessee but no. This test is full of it. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-yankee-are-you/292754/4 "2005-03-03T14:31:44Z")
53% (Dixie). Odd, since I grew up in Canada! ---
**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:** [March 3, 2005, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-yankee-are-you/292754/5 "2005-03-03T14:33:43Z")
49% northerner (I refuse to be a yankee – Let’s Go, Mets). ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-yankee-are-you/292754/6 "2005-03-03T14:39:14Z")
Wow. 55% Dixie, just above the Mason-Dixon Line. Kind of weird. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-yankee-are-you/292754/7 "2005-03-03T14:54:41Z")
84% Dixie! Not surprising, because I’ve lived in Texas and Kentucky. Looking at the responses, I’m more of a Great Lakes southerner. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-yankee-are-you/292754/8 "2005-03-03T15:00:09Z")
LOL! 52% Dixie. Um, I’m Scottish. And yes I am wasting time today - h ow did you guess? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-yankee-are-you/292754/9 "2005-03-03T15:03:51Z")
71% Dixie. Odd. Age 0-7 Omaha, NE Age 7-16 Shawnee, KS Age 16-18 Overland Park, KS Age 18-22 South Bend, IN Age 22-23 Jackson, MS Age 23-26 South Bend, IN Age 26-29 Indianapolis, IN This test has no veracity. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-yankee-are-you/292754/10 "2005-03-03T15:25:38Z")
“26% (Yankee). You show a very strong Yankee score.” ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-yankee-are-you/292754/11 "2005-03-03T15:29:15Z")
45% I’ve lived for: - five years in California - two years in Seattle - two years in Washington, DC - five years in Atlanta - twelve years in Florida - seven years in Ohio - five years in Baltimore - four years overseas ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-yankee-are-you/292754/12 "2005-03-03T15:31:27Z")
45% Yankee; I was born in NJ, but have lived in Texas since before I can remember. I can only assume it’s due to my metro area location and having parents who were either fully Yankee (Dad) or well-travelled Army brat (Mom). ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-yankee-are-you/292754/13 "2005-03-03T15:33:22Z")
12%. Top 20% of all the Yankees. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-yankee-are-you/292754/14 "2005-03-03T15:41:14Z")
Let’s see. I was born in Queens, NY. Grew up in Queens and Long Island. For all but 4 years of my life (thanks Uncle Sam), I’ve lived in Queens or Long Island. My father was born in Manhattan, my mother moved there when she was 10ish.\* “52% (Dixie). Just above the Mason-Dixon Line” Not a very good test. \*From South Carolina, so that may partially explain the score. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-yankee-are-you/292754/15 "2005-03-03T15:49:54Z")
I registered as 70% (Dixie), just under the Mason-Dixon Line. Which is odd, considering I’ve spent most of my life in New Jersey, and the rest of it in either Massachusetts or Maine. Huh. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-yankee-are-you/292754/16 "2005-03-03T15:56:48Z")
45%. Being born and raised in California tends to bias the score upwards. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-yankee-are-you/292754/17 "2005-03-03T16:02:14Z")
57% (Dixie). Just above the Mason-Dixon Line As I’ve lived in Maryland all my life, but consider myself more cosmopolitan, that’s pretty spot-on. I have to say as far as quiz page coding goes, this one is well designed, even if the test itself is kinda questionable. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-yankee-are-you/292754/18 "2005-03-03T16:03:16Z")
Whoever developed this test is number’n a hake, i’ve lived most of my life (can’t say _all_ my life, as i ain’t dead yet) in New England, in Maine, NH, and Vermont, yet i only come up as 43% yankee then again, i have spent most of my life in the more generic, urbanized areas of NE, not much time off in the boonies or on the coast of Northern Maine with the Spidah’ huntahs and fishermen Daoh, that test don’t know nothin, i tell you… ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-yankee-are-you/292754/19 "2005-03-03T16:14:57Z")
39% Yankee. It’s actually pretty accurate for me. I’ve spent my whole life in Massachusetts but I was raised by a New Yorker. I get about half my habits from my mom. The sandwich one threw me for a minute. I use both grinder and hoagie. (channeling Adam Sandler) Hoagies and grinders, hoagies and grinders navy beans, navy beans, navy beans, navy beans. hoagies and grinders, hoagies and grinders navy beans, navy beans…MEATLOAF SANDWICH. ``` Sloppy joe slop sloppy joe yeah sloppy joe slop sloppy joe ooh-yeah ``` Damn IT! Get out of my HEAD!! ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-yankee-are-you/292754/20 "2005-03-03T16:26:28Z")
48% Yankee. Odd, since there ain’t nothing north of me but Canada. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-yankee-are-you/292754.md?page=2)