esm

Sorry, for some reason only half of the URL is active so if you want to see the picture you have to copy and paste it into a new window.

Fodors continues to act up so I'm not sure I can post this reply!

BayouGal

Those roly poly/pill bugs have been in Louisiana all my life so they're definitely not just in the western US. Just another thing that points to how large our country is, and how what may be taken for granted in one place is totally unknown in another.

cheryllj

83% Dixie. No real surprise, although I don't really have a Southern accent at all. It's the expressions that got me.

Some of y'all have never heard of a roly poly? For real? I've seen them all over the Southeast so it's not a Western thing.

jacketwatch

"33% Dixie. You're definitely a Yankee." Shoot I knew that.

seetheworld

75% Yankee. I never knew about "papering" until moving to New York. It seems to be very popular among high school students. It's happened several times on my street.

irishswampyankee

13% Dixie - but I KNEW that - see my name!!

isy

BayouGal

seetheworld, I'd never heard it called "papering" until this survey. My area calls it "rolling." And they literally roll the paper around house, trees, you name it! ;-)

starrsville

83% Dixie!

Diana

84% Dixie and disappointed it's not more.

nytraveler

Well I can;t say I've ever touched any kind of bug - except a lady bug to let it out of the house. And would never look under a rock for something - ick! Although my little brother did capture lighning bugs sometimes.

I don;t object to the outdoors as long as it's limited to birds and cute little mammals - but bugs never - almost as bad as reptiles.

USNR

45% -- been out in the Arizona sun too long.

Stephanie

I don't know if this test is accurate. I have lived in SW PA a vast majority of my life and tested 46% dixie and not even near Yankee. Some of the terms I had to guess, usually picked a term I have heard before but never used. there were also a couple of answers that i picked and was told the term was used in michigan only or everywhere but michigan or nationwide usage. I'm in one of those areas that can't be identified exclusively as north or south, since i'm so close to ohio I may be like a midwestern more than a NE person.

Stephanie

Bob

I called them potato bugs too and i think its referring to the bugs underneath rocks that would curl when you lifted the rocks

L84SKY

Definitely a Yankee but where did the 38% Dixie come from???
I'm a California Native and my parents are from Nebraska.

Potato bugs are those frightening things that look like big beige striped ants.

BayouGal

I am not familar with potatoe bugs. Are THEY found all over the US? I think I'll have to google them. ;-)

BayouGal

Check this out!

"This site is dedicated to the fabrication and perpetuation of fear, hate and disgust for the Potato Bug." http://www.potatobugs.com/

I think that bug is what we call mole crickets, but not sure.

L84SKY

Thanks for this link esm... I'm off to play there.

LittleSalty

45% Dixie. Barely in Yankeedom.
I was born & raised on Long Island about a half an hour out of Manhattan...didn't think I'd be so borderline! And I was surprised that sneakers (# 11) was primarily a NE thing--I thought everyone called 'em that!

canterbury

16% Dixie - 84% Yankee. Could be because I was born and raised in CT?? (now live in So. Cal.)

LoveItaly

Oh gads, BayouGal, I almost had a heart attack when I went on that Potato Bug website, lol. Yes indeed, that is what I was referring to. The last time I had one in the house was about 20 years ago. Fortunatly my husband was home as I went screaming out the front door.

Papering..here in N CA it was called TP.."the house got TP'd last night". Don't know if kids do that anymore or not. When my daughter was in HS it was quite the rage where we lived.

Oh gads, I DO wish I hadn't gotten on that Potato Bug website. Yuck and yuck!!