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soccr Nov 10th, 2005 10:20 AM

Quick test for regionality
 
Have you seen this website? http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/yankeetest.html

Have some arguments with it, but fun anyway. Would propose a couple of other questions, too....

Sunshinesue Nov 10th, 2005 10:24 AM

76% Dixie (pink neck!)

Fraggle Nov 10th, 2005 10:32 AM

I got 76% Dixie too...
Sort of makes me proud because I've never felt particularly "southern", but I'm proud of where I come from.
(That said, I'm happy to be living in Yankee territory now)

John Nov 10th, 2005 10:39 AM

Scored 47% barely yankee yet I was born and brought up in New England. Have to admit though I've lived up and down the east coast so I guess I'm a neuter!!!!
Now living and retired in the great state of Montana.

hdm Nov 10th, 2005 10:41 AM

Hey, that was pretty good! I 'just barely Yankee' (50%) which would seem strange since I'm Canadian but we spend a lot of time in the southern US and lived in NJ for several years.

Still, there were a few answers where it could be two of four.

Cassandra Nov 10th, 2005 10:42 AM

Huh! 40% full Yankee, although a lot of my answers were "Great Lakes." I don't even like the question about what you call a group of people ("you-all," "y'all", etc.) because I grew up saying just "you," with no "all" whatsoever. But after a long time in NC, I do say "y'all" from time to time because I think it's useful and gentler when you're saying something like, "we may get hurricanes but y'all get earthquakes." :-)

swalter518 Nov 10th, 2005 10:57 AM

Definately a Yankee here. Fun quiz!

capecodshanty Nov 10th, 2005 11:00 AM

another Yankee- at 33%! That shouldn't surprise me. Fun quiz- sent it along to friends, both North and South.

razzledazzle Nov 10th, 2005 11:00 AM

43% Yankee (Barely) Well, thank goodness
as I've been a Westerner my entire life ! AZ,CO&CA, with a brief year in Boston. Test leaves out about half of the US-with a brief nod to CA on the soda question. Love to be in on the new an improved re-write version!
:)
R5

ncgrrl Nov 10th, 2005 11:01 AM

76% pink neck.

I'd add in a question:

What do you call the wheeled contraction in the grocery store?

A. Cart
B. Basket
C. Buggy
D. Other

vegasnative Nov 10th, 2005 11:10 AM

48% Yankee (barely Yankee). :0) that was fun! I was born and raised in Vegas, however we have so many people moving here from "everywhere" that we get/hear/use a broad range of terms. I have to say though, that it IS definitely a sub sandwich NOT a hoagie! :)

Kinch500 Nov 10th, 2005 11:18 AM

60% (Dixie). Right on the Mason-Dixon Line


Interesting quiz. I was born and raised in NE Florida but spent summers in Ohio.

Sunshinesue Nov 10th, 2005 11:18 AM

Buggy!!!

ncgrrl Nov 10th, 2005 11:22 AM

Oops for the typo. I guess I'd use the sort version?

I use a buggy and take it back to the cart corral.

aschie30 Nov 10th, 2005 11:33 AM

I got "25% (Yankee). You are a Yankee Doodle Dandy."

JJ5 Nov 10th, 2005 11:40 AM

Yankee Doodle Dandy! 26% here.

aileen679 Nov 10th, 2005 11:40 AM

49% Barely Yankee. considering that I have lived all my long,long life in the Deep Deep South, I must be one mixed up person. Maybe it has something to do with living in a port city with lots of tourists.

klr6773 Nov 10th, 2005 11:50 AM

22%-no wonder my new coworkers in OR call me the Cranky Yankee! Guess it will be years before the Jersey is out of me!

ccolor Nov 10th, 2005 11:54 AM

I'm from Ohio and being a southern wannabe my score of 54% makes me so proud I could actually eat grits.

donco Nov 10th, 2005 12:24 PM

Pretty interesting! It got me right at 43% barely Yankee. I was born in Boston of Bostonians but raised in rural town in Maryland and married a man from a rural town in Kentucky.

GoTravel Nov 11th, 2005 04:51 AM

79% Pink neck.

fun4all4 Nov 11th, 2005 05:08 AM

Interesting. 43% barely Yankee.

I was born in NYC, raised in MD and live in Virginia. Still wanna stay a Yankee, but some of the south creeps in over time. :)

atlswan Nov 11th, 2005 09:27 AM

The buggy question cracked me up. Moved South at tender age of five and converted from cart to buggy despite Mom's best efforts. Just couldn't help it.

I do still say "pop" instead of Coke, which down here represents all carbonated-type beverages.

asdaven Nov 11th, 2005 12:23 PM

74% Dixie. I live in Maryland just south of the Mason-Dixion Line, but have made most of my travels down south or out west. Not much up north. So, it say's I am a "pink neck".

travelgirl_67 Nov 11th, 2005 01:22 PM

63% (Dixie). Just under the Mason-Dixon Line -- considering I've lived all over the US, I guess the old saying is true "you can take the girl out of the South but you can't take the South out of the girl".

djkkk Nov 11th, 2005 01:53 PM

That was fun. Scored 46% Yankee (barely). Born, raised and still live in Southeastern Pennsylvania.

sfowler Nov 11th, 2005 02:05 PM

39% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.

SAB Nov 11th, 2005 02:06 PM

Definately Yankee--interesting since I was born and raised in the UK and live in CA.

Tandoori_Girl Nov 11th, 2005 03:49 PM

I'm 47% Yankee. I think that's mostly from the waist down.


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