How Yankee are you?

This San Francisco-born 72% solid Southerner concurs.

71% (Dixie)

I’m Australian but I gave it a try anyway. Several questions I couldn’t answer at all since there was no “none of the above” response. For example, I’d pronounce all four of the words ant, aunt, *want * and *caught * differently. Similarly, I’d never address a group of people by any of those appellations *you all * etc.

And, just out of curiosity - why would anyone want to cover a house in toilet paper?

100% Dixie - I guess my Louisana upbringing hasn’t been stolen by these people in Massachusetts after all.

71% Dixie, but then again coming from England is something the test doesn’t cater for. Still be interested to know if all Brits come up as southerners on the test.

I got: 100% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father?
And I’d only heard the term Frontage Road in Mississippi - I wasn’t even sure what one was the first time I heard it.

53% (Dixie). Just above the Mason-Dixon Line.

Yeah, guess so. I like to talk and then ask people where they think I’m from. Ten years in Pennsylvania, the rest of the time in Louisiana. This test caused a controversy on a board I used to belong to. People were quite insulted that the test pegged them as being from regions other than the ones they were from.

I’m going to be trusting and assume this is not a whoosh, but maybe something teenagers in other countries don’t do.

TPing a house usually is actually more like TPing the trees in front of the house. It’s a mean trick that bored teenagers play on neighbors or people that they don’t like. I assume it’s rather hard to clean up.

100% Dixie- which is odd, because I get weekly comments on my total lack of a Southern accent. (Most of my white ancestors were in Alabama long before it was a state [there’s a Muskogee branch that was in Alabama and Georgia long before then] but I watched way too much TV as a kid so my voice is more Tom Brokaw than Roscoe P. Coltrane).

That’s funny. I’m an Aussie too, and my score was 52% Dixie, although the difference in our score might be explained by the fact that i fudged a few of the questions where i didn’t have an actual answer.

As for putting toilet paper on a house, i’ve been here for almost five years now and i’ve never seen anyone do it, and i’m still mystified about why anyone would want to.

Well, first, it’s “rolling”, not TP’ing. Just so we have that straight. :wink:

And in my time and place it was a sort of mean trick that we did to people we liked. Getting your house “rolled” was a bit of a sign that you were someone. I’m sure there was other, more cruel stuff we might do to someone we really didn’t like. Like gather up as many “for sale” signs as possible and place them in their front yard.

“0% (Yankee). Holy cow! Send this guy to Kennebunkport!”
Though it’s a spuckie and you drink a tonic with it.
And “route” rhymes with both toot & clout - depends on whether it’s a noun (Route 128 - rhymes w/toot) or a verb (“we’ve been re-routed down Mass Ave” - rhymes w/clout)

Buncha Thompson lovers wrote that quiz.

Much of the ethnic heritage of people with a long lineage in the South is English, Irish, Scottish, and Scots-Irish. Different regions of the U.S. tend to not have nearly the same amount of heritage from Britain. This is very simplistic of course but it is generally correct. I am from Louisiana and am from a very long line of Southerners. My last name is from an English settler at the first colony at Jamestown and I want to go to England soon because the church where he and his wife were married outside of London in 1590 is still there.

Neither. It’s a carriage.

“33% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.” The true test is how you pronounce the word ‘quarter.’ It rhymes with ‘water’ when I say it, and lots of people out here in California like to point out how weird it sounds. I grew up in CT and spent time in VT, Boston, and ME before moving out here.

47% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

Odd.

I’m a western girl, having never ventured over to the east side of the Rockies (I don’t count where I was born, as it was one year and I can’t remember). I haven’t even been to Colorado.

What is a yankee exactly? Is it just anyone who isn’t from the south, or is it specifically the northeast? As I have never been to the south OR the northeast…don’t know if this applies to me.

Places I’ve lived:

1 year in North Dakota ( I was born there, it barely counts)
13 years in Utah
5 years in Nevada
2 years in northern Washington

49% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

I think we’ve had this test here before, and it was similarly ambiguous, even though my first 4 1/2 years on this planet were spent in Connecticut. Let’s see… I learned isopods as “sowbugs” while living in California. Also, the test asked how many syllables do I pronounce “caramel” with (three) but it didn’t ask how I pronounce the first A. :stuck_out_tongue:

According to Merriam-Webster it refers to someone from New England, but can also mean someone from the United States.

Maybe San Francisco is in the South and no one bothered to tell us.

Exchange heard b/w me and fizzy on many occasions:

Her: “Get us a buggy.”
Me: “Okay, I’ll get a cart.”
Her: “Buggy.”
Me: “Cart.”
Her: “Buggy!”
Me: “Cart!”
Her: “Patrick. You are in the South. Buggy.”
Me: “I call it a cart. I will always call it a cart. I don’t care where I am, I will always call it a cart.”
Her: “But it’s a buggy!”

etc.

72% (Dixie). You are a solid Southerner!.

Momma was from Lake Charles, LA and daddy was from Tulsa, OK. I was born in Houston, TX but there were terms on that “test” that I’d never heard.

Unclviny

38%, a true Yankee.

Born in Manhattan, raised in da Bronx, moved to Boston for college and lived there half my life. Ya think?

But I agree the test is weird. I just came back from Manhattan and had a HERO for lunch. Lemon chicken on Italian, mmmm.

65% (Dixie). Just under the Mason-Dixon Line. I don’t care what anyone says its a feeder god damn it!