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LeDoutre Jun 20th, 2006 09:06 AM

I came up as 63% Dixie even though I've never lived below the MD line and have spent hardly any time in the South. I'm trying to figure out if the Southerners I know have somehow "infected" me ;-)

Fun quiz though.

laartista Jun 20th, 2006 09:08 AM

46% dixie,Grew up in Florida but have lived all over the country, now in Ny. Guess I picked pronunciations from everywhere.

nytraveler Jun 20th, 2006 09:53 AM

86% Yankees - wonder where that other 14% came from? (But some of the questions are odd - what kind of bug are they talking about? And have never seen a drive through liquor store.)

Becca Jun 20th, 2006 10:06 AM

I'm 83% Dixie and should be - always lived in Tennessee!

Vittrad Jun 20th, 2006 10:09 AM

A pill-bug or a rolly polly (I've heard both terms) is a bug that rolls up in a little ball when you touch it. I remember poking at them as a child when I'd find them under a rock.

Therese Jun 20th, 2006 10:14 AM

48% Dixie, reflecting my having lived in many areas of the south as well as the midwest. I've spent more of my life in the south than the north.

Some people don't believe that I'm from the southeast, and I've actually been challenged on it, though never by somebody from the southeast, only by people from the northeast and midwest.

Suerich68 Jun 20th, 2006 10:17 AM

I'm a Yankee, never did root for the Mets!

xrae Jun 20th, 2006 10:26 AM

I'm "Barely Dixie." I blame in on being born in Cleveland.

But mostly I'm a hillbilly. LOL

They didn't ask what that thing on wheels is that you put your groceries in as you gather them at the store. Is that a buggy, or a cart, or something else?

ibob Jun 20th, 2006 10:31 AM

#20 when I was a kid, we called them "potato bugs". Now the kids might say "pill or rollie pollie bugs".

esm Jun 20th, 2006 11:05 AM

Well, so far 16-9 for Yankees!

I had no idea what that bug was either.

TxTravelPro Jun 20th, 2006 11:20 AM

Beach, I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOO jealous!

Wednesday Jun 20th, 2006 11:22 AM

65% Dixie, hope so, I was born in Alabama, any less I would be ashamed ya'll....

Fodorite018 Jun 20th, 2006 11:30 AM

41% Dixie...so a yankee...barely!

BayouGal Jun 20th, 2006 11:38 AM

78% Dixie . . . 100% Cajun Redneck!

Sunshinesue Jun 20th, 2006 11:48 AM

84% Dixie. Naturally. And you put your groceries in a buggy and your baby in a stroller.

Chele60 Jun 20th, 2006 11:58 AM

46% Dixie - Barely in Yankeedom.

Interesting as I've lived in California all my life, and the score is roughly half/half??

I'm wondering if those little bugs are only found in the Western US?? Curious that those in the Eastern US don't seem to be familar with them. I remember them very well from when I was a kid. And we called them both Pillbug and Roly-Polys as well!

LoveItaly Jun 20th, 2006 12:04 PM

Those little bugs that roll up when you touch them (my brother would touch them I never did) are not potato bugs. Potato bugs are horrible, lol.

beach_dweller Jun 20th, 2006 12:07 PM

91% Dixie


KarenL Jun 20th, 2006 12:09 PM

39% dixie which reflects my 100% NYS upbringing.

Didn't know the rollie pollie bug thing either. HA

esm Jun 20th, 2006 12:10 PM

OK, I had to find out about this roly poly bug. Here's a picture:

http://www.jhu.edu/~jhumag/0901web/roly.html


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