Off-topic; just for fun quiz

[mary]

The Yankee-Dixie Quiz:

http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/yankee_dixie_quiz.html

I thought some here might get a kick out of this. (It was sent to me this morning by a black former co-worker who's now a good friend, but she didn't put her score on it when she sent it to me. I rang up a 39%, "definite Yankee" classification on it. But then, it couldn't have gone any other way.)

Please excuse me if you first saw this around the time that Lincoln was assassinated... :D :cool: It's new to me...

mary

[abbey]

49% yankee! Yep, born and raised in the north!

[Willow]

68% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!

[Elisabeth]

65% (Dixie). Lived the first 12 years of my life in CA, then in AZ the rest of the time. My Dad was born and raised in Mass., my mom raised in CA, so I guess there's quite a bit of Dixie influence here, and also my grandma was born and raised in the South, so I guess she influenced our speech patterns here. That was fun! :D

[Janice]

61% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!

LOL and I"m born & raised in the northeast. LOL but..it is SOUTHERN new jersey. :)

[Siobhanne]

47% Yankee.. a real surprise for me 'cause I'm a southern girl. My mom was from Michigan so I guess some of it rubbed off on me.

Siobhanne

[Anna Marta]

45% yankee - born and raised in Philly area. This is a hilarious quiz. I love these kinds of things.

Anna Marta

[Jerry]

I scored 52% Dixie with a note "Barely into the Dixie Category"

[Willow]

I took the quiz again and answered the median questions a different way and scored 74% dixie. I guess I'm a real redneck!

[Hope 98]

whoa 49% barely yankee

don't know how that happened - born & raised in the Philly burbs.

[yeshua'smags]

I'm still a yankee! whew! I was afraid it was going away! hahaha:D

[mary]

This is as fascinating as I hoped it would be! :) :) :) What do we have here, an even mix? Or a little tilted towards Dixie?

Jerry, what're you doing in the Dixie category? :eek: :D :p

I think that some of you are exactly right: where your relatives come from makes a difference on this test. My mom was from Wisconsin; my paternal grandfather was from Indiana. I think I'm the "most definitive Yankee" on here so far... Anyone else from up here in the Great Lakes area???

Thanks, everyone, and glad you liked it, Anna Marta: I thought you all would enjoy this! ;) :)

Love,

mary

[Willow]

I really had fun with this and put it on myspace for others to take. Thanks mary. I liked it. I was born in KY and grew up in southern OH so my result as 68% dixie didn't surprise me. Southern Ohio has it's share of southern influence.

[mary]

I really had fun with this and put it on myspace for others to take. Thanks mary. I liked it. I was born in KY and grew up in southern OH so my result as 68% dixie didn't surprise me. Southern Ohio has it's share of southern influence.

Wow, thanks, Amy! I hope the people who visit your MySpace page get a kick out of it, too!

Now that you've explained where you're from, I understand your Dixie leaning... I'm jealous! :D ;)

(I just wish I'd written this thing... It's brilliant.)

Love,

mary

P. S. Please don't leave!!!!!!

[Willow]

I'm still here mary... just gonna focus on the light stuff. :p

[Anna Marta]

Willow - you are a REAL Dixie gal. I had no idea born in Ky... you must have horses and blue grass in your genes. No wonder you love motorcycles, the feel of the wind rushing by on a fast moving "something."

Hang around Willow you are loved and valued. I care about you.

Love
Anna Marta

[Willow]

I grew up in quarter horse country where my dad was the local equine veterinarian. I was his little helper and went on calls with him and handed him the tubes and buckets. It was a fun way to grow up... barefoot in the country. I took naps on the back of my fat pony in the sun. As she would walk, my head would go back and forth on her rump. Don't ask me to do that now! I think I'd fall off.

[butterfly]

I was 42% I didn"t make the Yankee.

I am a New Englander there wasn"t much for me to choose from.

A road off the hightway is a "side street"

We have no creeks we have" streams and brooks."

"Root" for highway number.
shirley

[mary]

I was 42% I didn"t make the Yankee.

I am a New Englander there wasn"t much for me to choose from.

A road off the hightway is a "side street"

We have no creeks we have" streams and brooks."

"Root" for highway number.
shirley

Another thing we don't have here are those "bugs." I'd never heard the other terms for them, but I have heard people refer to "potato bugs" around here, so that's what I checked. The quiz should have had an option there of "never use any of the above." I don't even know if we have "potato bugs" around here...

Also, a road off the "freeways" (yep, that's what we call 'em) around here is a "service drive." Not a road. I guess we call them "freeways" because, in their daily, practical use, they have no speed limits. ;) They're posted at 70, but most people do 85-90+ on them. We like to think of I-696 as sort of a States-side Autobahn. Which it is.

Oh well: nothing's perfect. :)

mary

[Turtle]

Ah-h man-n-nnn... my score was just 51 %.
Go figure; I live on the west coast north of the 49th!! Eh :D:D:D:D:D

[Jerry]

Jerry, what're you doing in the Dixie category? :eek: :D :p



Well,,,,,,,,I lived in Texas (Houston) for 1 year,,,,,,God made "Houston" so we would know what "Hell" is like :D .........Then I lived in Florida for 5 years,,,,,I arrived in Florida with 400 bucks in my pocket,,,,,,,It took 5 years to save 400 bucks to get out :eek:..............On top of all that,,,I went to school from grade 8 through 2 years of college in "West (By God!!! ) Virginia :D So I guess somewhere in that time I "caught" something :D
Love Jerry