Are you a rebel or Yanky? Quiz!!!!

[Sassymygirl]

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I actually don't deserve the 100% Dixie... I clicked Po Boy as an answer even though that's not the term I use.

I deserve a good 90%, though.

Wow, down here any "long" piece of bread with lots of stuff on it, is a Po Boy.

 

[StupidBird]

Indoors I get water from the faucet, outdoors from the spigot. I took the advanced test and scored 60% Dixie. First six years of life in Atl, next decade all over the US, last twenty right back here in ATL.

When we moved up North, the school sent me to the speech therapist. Apparently a Southern accent was an impediment.

 

[Parrotchick]

Hmmmm...I got the 48% Dixie, which would geographically make sense since I've mostly lived in the border state of Maryland (currently living about 15 miles due south of the Mason-Dixon line). But it doesn't account for growing up in a family of umpteenth generation New Yorkers where my speech patterns were established, and living in Massachusetts and NYC myself. The "advanced" test got me more right at 16% Dixie.

The true Southern vernacular does appeal to me, but more so when it's a refined and soft Virginia/North Carolina lilt, rather than the Deep South drawl, which I think sometimes gets exaggerated for affect (just as many other accents and dialects do). And I absolutely adore Southern manners where everyone, no matter the station in life, says "yes ma'am." It just doesn't happen in the Northeast like that, and much as I appreciate it, it would sound as odd and forced coming from me as saying "y'all come back now, he-ah."

I've travelled a whole lot in the Eastern half of the US and regionalism seems dying to me, what with everything being mall-ified, and especially with younger people. (Dang, I'm only 44, and feel like I'm 25, but I sure do talk like an "old person" sometimes!). In the early 90's, I took a meandering road trip on the back of a motorcylcle from Baltimore to New Orleans. I was expecting to encounter kids wearing overalls with hayseeds in their mouths in the small towns of Mississippi. But no, kids then were wearing Day-glo and singing MC Hammer songs just like they were in New York. I realized then that the differences between North and South would be much subtler and deeper than meets the eye.

 

[Parrotchick]

In the middle of second grade I moved from Massachusetts to the Baltimore area. The teacher asked us to bring in our "crowns" the next day. I thought, being a new kid, that the class had been making tiaras or something.

We were supposed to bring in our crayons.

 

[EE lover:)]

i is definatly a yankee! WOOT!!! i knew it was in my blood to be a jersey girl!!!

 

[EE lover:)]

and i tried the advanced test, i am 4% dixie!

 

[User66184]

100% Dixie

 

[EE lover:)]

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i guessed THAT from your siggy!

 

[MaggieRae]

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I actually don't deserve the 100% Dixie... I clicked Po Boy as an answer even though that's not the term I use.

I deserve a good 90%, though.

Wow, down here any "long" piece of bread with lots of stuff on it, is a Po Boy.

That term isn't used too often around here. Being about 20 minutes from the air port, I hear all sorts of different terms for things, and any of those options were as good as my guess. Po Boy was my first thought, then Sub.

 

[Q9]

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Wow, down here any "long" piece of bread with lots of stuff on it, is a Po Boy.

That term isn't used too often around here. Being about 20 minutes from the air port, I hear all sorts of different terms for things, and any of those options were as good as my guess. Po Boy was my first thought, then Sub.

Sub was mine. Being from NC, I don't have a super-noticeable accent. My mom, on the other hand, is from our southern neighbor South Carolina. Definite accent there.