“11% (Yankee). Wow. Your Yankee score is in the top 20 percentile!”
That’s about right. I grew up in Gettysburg PA. My great-great-[great?]-uncle was in the PA Infantry during the Cival War and my great-whatever grandfather and relatives hid his town’s horses when he heard that the Confederates under Lee were marching North. I’ve never lived in the South and remain ever-vigilant in case they want to Rise Again.
I’d never heard the proper term for “frontage roads” before I went to Texas, where they would have signs for them using that term. I’ve never even been to the Western Great Lakes region, where it says it is common (unless eastern Ohio counts.)
So I’d say, bunk as well, although my score of 43% Yankee is pretty accurate.
At 14%, my score was in the top 20 Yankee percentile, which makes sense because I’ve never lived anywhere but New England.
I was surprised to see a reference to “cabbage night” - I didn’t think anyone outside of New England had even *heard *of that. Wicked odd.
100% Yankee, I reckon. I’ve never lived outside of Indiana, which was on the blue side during the, um, that war in the 1860’s. You know, that one.
65% (Dixie). Just under the Mason-Dixon Line
Yeah, right.
I’ve never even been south of the Mason-Dixon Line, let alone lived there. The quiz doesn’t seem to take Westerners much into account.
83% (Dixie). Did you have any Confederate ancestors?
Worked for me pretty well. I lived in WA state for 3 years. Excluding that time, I’ve lived in the South all my live. (wonder what the other 17% is?)
49% Yankee and I have never lived in the South!
17% (Yankee) Top 20 percentile.
Bronxite born and bred.
Ohh, I figured it out. When I change the answer about the service roads from feeder (I did live in Houston for five years…and they say this is a term pretty much local to Houston) to access roads then I get to 100% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father?
Huh…strange way to calculate. Isn’t Houston still part of the South? 
63% Dixie. While I did grow up in Virginia (mostly), A) it was north Virginia, a different beast entirely from Dixieland, and B) some of those terms I’ve heard and used interchangeably.
I rather doubt I would pass as Dixie-bred at a social event.
I’m thinking the folks what wrote this thing don’t know as much as they think they know.
My score exactly, and I agree not a good test. I did live in the South, but in the heart of Cajun country. Lots of stuff they claim to be Southern are New Yorkese. Garage/yard saies are car porch sales in Louisiana (Cajun for carport.)
They claim hero is a Maine term - that was the only term for that sandwich I knew when I was growing up.
Poo on them. I is 100% Yankee.
I came to that conclusion when they told me a “hero sandwich” was only available in Maine.
Heroes (“subs” to most of the rest of the country) are what you get in New York City.
It’s a yard sale in the rest of the South.
Hi cutie! I agree. They didn’t even ask what we call the things you push around in a grocery store. I can’t probably tell every one of you what you really are by that alone.
Grocery cart or buggy?
50% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.
Odd. I’ve lived in Illinois all my life and I’ve only been to the south once or twice.
I’ve lived in Massachusetts and Maine and have spent the past 22 years in Jersey. I wonder if we are related.
I scored 45% Yankee.
58% (Dixie). Just above the Mason-Dixon Line
I find this interesting since most of my answers seemed to favor “All of the US” or some such. I spent my formative years in Maryland and never considered myself a southerner.
12% (Yankee). Wow. Your Yankee score is in the top 20 percentile!
Just barely Yankee, 42%. I grew up in California, with bits of the south and mid-west from my Dad’s side. So I use all the words for pillbugs and none of them for frontage roads (that’s just that road over there, next to the highway).
For what the test was designed to do, I guess that makes sense.
50% Yankee, though I’ve lived only in the New Orelans suburbs and central Mississippi all my life.
My speech is a suburbanized version of New Orleans vernacular, which is a “port city” accent akin to Brooklynese. Rural Southernisms didn’t make it into my speech.
BTW, on the last question of that test. It’s not a pill bug, sow bug, or roly-poly. Its a doodlebug! Heck, “doodlebug” is even used on the Nick Jr. cartoon Ms. Spider. Is “doodlebug” not well-known nationwide?