“29% (Yankee). You show a very strong Yankee score.”
Born and raised in Philadelphia. Lived for the last 20 years or so just northeast of the city.
66% (Dixie). Just under the Mason-Dixon Line.
This is about right, considering I’ve lived my entire life in Central FL and I was raised by a Midwestener (Ohio).
BTW, TP’ing a car is a lot more fun (and easier to clean up) than a house or yard. Just make sure you use 1 ply paper on a wet night. If it’s not wet, make sure you have a spray bottle of water. Leave the empty rolls on the antenna to let them know how many rolls you used, and if you want extra effect, put KY jelly under the handles.
Yes, I’m a veteran.
I see. I assumed it was some sort of strange decorating technique akin to papier mâché. I’ve never heard of that happening here.
36% Yankee. I know what Devil’s Night is because I lived in Detroit for a while, but I don’t actually call it that. When I change that answer to Devil’s Night it makes me LESS Yankee, even though IIRC Detroit is WAYYYY north of the Mason-Dixon line. So I expect that by “Yankee” they mean the New England variety.
[hijack]Personal experience: Devil’s Night is a great night to fly around Detroit in a small plane, just to watch all the arson. :rolleyes: The night I did this (in 1987), there were only about 200 fires, supposedly half of the expected total. [/hijack]
79% (Dixie). You are a solid Southerner!
43%, barely Yankee. Born in Boston and lived there for 23 years before moving to Japan. On the other hand, my mom and grandma (who lived with us) are both Texans.
But I don’t drink soda or pop. I drink a tonic with my grinder, dammit!
Forgot to say where I’m from - I spent 41 of my 53 years in Geogia and Tennessee. I lived in Illinois from 1988-2000, but really didn’t pick up any midwestern terms.
Well, the calculator claims I’m 83% Dixie, then had the audacity to ask if I had any Confederate lineage. Well, there ya go! Would I ask a Yankee if he or she had any carpetbaggers in their family tree? I reckon it was conjured up by some well intentioned but opinionated Yankee, being that I’m as country as cornbread (sans syrup, thanky very much…just a side order of Andy Griffith pinto beans) and consider myself 100% Southern hick. Not that all hicks are ignorant of the ways of the world…that’s just our way of getting along and selling bottled water to our Northern cousins. BTW, we don’t call it Dixie. We call it home. I wonder why a lot of folk consider being from the South and preserving the old ways as a reverse evolution of the human self. As far as I’m concerned, all was well here in east Tennessee until some developers from the North came trotting down and tried to convince us that a whistlepig is really known as a woodchuck. Yankee folk are OK, as long as they keep in mind that they are our guests down South and should behave in that manner.
You mean “rolling a house,” of course.
– spoke-, 99% Dixie (Is General Lee your father?)
Note: I notice that if you change your answers during the test it seems to irrevocaably alter your score. In other words, your first impulse seems to figure in. Go back and try it again without changing any answers during the test.
This test is seriously flawed, though, on at least a couple of points:
“Cot” and “caught” are not pronounced the same in a Southern accent.
And there should be one more option on the sandwich name question: “Po’ Boy” (common on Gulf Coast)
Ahem, something’s amiss here.
It said I’m only 48% Yankee, but I’ve never been anywhere near the Southeast, nor do any of my ancestors come from there. The system responses for nearly all my answers said either that my selections were common throughout the U.S., or that they were common in the West, or in the upper Midwest. A couple also said Pennsylvania and Ohio. So how can I only be 48% Yankee?
The system comments sounded about right, too. My father’s family came from Utah, formerly Kansas, and my mother came from the Chicago area. Given that a toddler learning to talk, circa 1960, typically had more exposure to his SAHM than to his father, it made sense to me that this test, in its individual answers, betrayed an Upper Midwest bias. Though I never have used the word “bubbler” for drinking fountain.
It’s a Wisconsin-specific term.
And New England.
35% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.
My answers were heavily Midwest/Great Lakes-specific with a sprinkling of southernisms. I really dont consider Midwest culture “Yankee”, thats more of a East coast thing to me.
Australian too.
48% Yankee–strange it’s so low, since I’ve never lived anywhere that might be construed as “the South” (except South America, not the same thing, I’m guessing).
The test lost me at the grocery bag/sack/poke question.
Unless somebody comes in here and confirms the existance of grocery “pokes” in current usage, I’ll also deny the existance of actual Americans who use the term “cee-ment pond.”
MotorGirl and Cunctator, thanks for correcting me. I’ve never actually heard anyone use that term, but I’ve heard people in Illinois joke about how they say it in Wisconsin, so I assumed it was a local phrase. Now I know!
50% (Yankee) Barely into the Yankee category.
I suppose this makes sense.
Born to Okie parents (who really sound quite non-Okie if you can overlook “Y’all” and “warsh”)
Born & raised in Idaho (23 years)
Last 6 years in various parts of Texas
Grew up in Michigan and then moved to Ohio.
I agree, their information isn’t very accurate. I’m pretty sure they say roly-poly here (I know that’s what I call them). Motorgirl, I agree that route is pronounced both ways. And “rolling” is new to me. What area is that from?
GT
Before moving to Boston I hadn’t heard “bubbler” for a drinking fountain, but the first time someone used it, I knew exactly when they meant and thought - what a perfect name for it! 