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20 February 2007

I am 58% Dixie. Barely in Dixie. So there. You?
post by: dabitch at: 18:10 | 44 comments
I'm 78% Dixie, but I grew up in Texas. However, I found that if you answer "Feeder" to question 13, you get a really specific demographic:

Local use in Houston and eastern Great Lakes.

Now why would those two areas be joined by this particular word usage?? (yeah, I was born in Houston)
posted by WolfDaddy 20 February | 18:18
I'm 57% Dixie, Barely in Dixie too. But some questions don't cover the words I use. For example, I don't address a group by "youse" or "you all" (though sometimes "y'all". Most times, it's "Hey/Hi guys".
posted by redvixen 20 February | 18:22
29% Dixie. I am, apparently, a dandy Yankee Doodle. Which doesn't shock me much.
posted by dersins 20 February | 18:27
93% Dixie. Is General Lee your grandfather?!

Texas born n raised.
posted by court siem 20 February | 18:28
50% Dixie. My dad is from Georgia and my mom from Indiana. So it was pretty right on, y'all.
posted by sciurus 20 February | 18:31
63% Dixie. Well under the Mason-Dixon Line.

Lived in northern Florida (which, unlike the rest of Florida, is actually part of the south) for ten years.

PS. It's pronounced "Flar-da".
posted by Specklet 20 February | 18:35
46% Dixie. Barely in Yankeedom.
I guess this makes some sense. I was born in North Carolina (where I lived 'till I was 3), lived in Boston through 2nd grade, Milwaukee through second year of high school and Portland since the age of 16 (I'm 29 now).

On the question of drinking fountain/water fountain/bubbler, my answer would have been "all of the above" if possible. Same for icing/frosting.


PS. It's pronounced "Flar-da".
Do you call a lamp a "lay-ump" when you're back home?
posted by pieisexactlythree 20 February | 18:44
11%! A Duke of Yankeedom (Go Sox, Yankees suck). Never lived outside of New England.

I could have skewed MORE Yankee as I was torn between Bubbler and Water Fountain, and my grandmother says "tonic" to this day.

Also, proper "long sandwich" terminology: A "Sub" is a long sandwich. A "Grinder" is a Sub that has been toasted once the non-vegetable ingredients have been assembled. The end.
posted by Rock Steady 20 February | 18:51
39% Dixie. You are definitely a Yankee.
posted by getoffmylawn 20 February | 18:51
63% Dixie. Well under the Mason-Dixon Line.
posted by LoriFLA 20 February | 19:13
8% Dixie. Need help digging out of the snow?

Yooz knew dat, though.
posted by jonmc 20 February | 19:14
Lived in northern Florida (which, unlike the rest of Florida, is actually part of the south) for ten years.


Good lord, isn't that the truth. My sister moved to Fort Walton in 2000 and now lives in Panama City and her accent is *thi-uck*.

Scored 38% Dixie, for the record. Born and raised in Tulsa, went to school in Waco, currently live in Dallas, and I still get accused of being Canadian. By Canadians.
posted by ufez 20 February | 19:43
48% Dixie. Barely in Yankeedom. Which is acceptable - for someone born in Denver and now living in Chicago.
posted by youngergirl44 20 February | 19:46
My sister moved to Fort Walton in 2000 and now lives in Panama City and her accent is *thi-uck*.

Ah, the Redneck Riviera.
posted by LoriFLA 20 February | 19:46
93%
posted by weretable and the undead chairs 20 February | 19:49
UGH.

100% Dixie. Is General Lee your grandfather?!
posted by mudpuppie 20 February | 20:00
36% Dixie. You are definitely a Yankee. Or a canuck.
posted by arse_hat 20 February | 20:20
16%, I've never lived outside of NY state. It seems Rochester is more Great Lakes than NYC, too. Or so this test says.
posted by tommasz 20 February | 20:24
30%. I grew up in California, and have always lived in the west, dude.
posted by eekacat 20 February | 20:38
30%, and that is because I didn't have use for some of those phrases until after I moved to SC and GA.
posted by mischief 20 February | 21:12
53% Dixie. Barely in Dixie

Born in Nebraska, lived in Tennessee, Colorado, and Kansas growing up. Went to college and lived for years in Tennessee, spent 15 years in Boston, before moving back to Atlanta, now live in Jacksonville.

Not a bad guess, for a 20 questions Web site.
posted by paulsc 20 February | 21:15
I'm 92% Dixie, y'all.

I can't imagine what I would be if the included the "neutral ground"/"median" question. 112% Dixie? Too Dixie for my clothes? (I think this is just a New Orleans thing.) Anyway, I lived in the south from the age of eight. So.

(I'm also (re)awake at 4 a.m. taking a Rebel or Yankee quiz. *sigh*)
posted by taz 20 February | 21:31
How appropriate, I found myself browsing through some 'MeCha voices' on the wiki this morning, and here you all are testing your accents.

I can't even answer question 1, so this test is dead to me.
posted by chrismear 20 February | 21:37
Ah! Bur the "Advanced Southern Accent Test" says I'm definitely a Yankee. You see? This is why they threw me out of the country.
posted by taz 20 February | 21:39
31%. I'm actually living east of the Mason/Dixon line. (No, really, it forms the western boundary of my state.)
posted by mmahaffie 20 February | 21:40
65%. Makes sense.
posted by rainbaby 20 February | 21:44
Feh. I got 100% on taz's test, too.
posted by mudpuppie 20 February | 21:46
I'm a dandy Yankee Doodle.

Only 24% Dixie.
35% Pixie.
And 41% Mr. Jinks.
≡ Click to see image ≡
posted by wendell 20 February | 21:59
11% Dixie. Wow! You are a Duke of Yankeedom!

I was particularly insulted when they did not mention Rhode Island in the "bubbler" selection.
For Christ's sake, the article is listed in the "Rhode Island Culture" category on Wikipedia! Come ON!


Taz's Test:

Folks in the Northeast go to the shore.
I go to the beach.

All of the "adverb big" combos sound good.

What do you pack for travel?
Suitcase...
Probably Southern.
Shut up!!

How do people in the area where you grew up pronounce oil?
OH-wuhl
I think they meant to put a "Y" where that "H" is.... Especially since I don't know ANYONE up here who says "Oh-wuhl"....

real good
This is part of a Southern accent wherever it is spoken.
...that's just poor grammar....

And it's a milkshake, not a cabinet. I don't know what's wrong with my crazy state, but I only hear that at places trying to be "old fashioned" or "authentic" at tourist traps....

Cut the grass
Good old Southern straightforwardness.
GAH!!! STOP IT!
posted by CitrusFreak12 20 February | 22:01
92% on the second test.
posted by weretable and the undead chairs 20 February | 22:08
36% Dixie. You are definitely a Yankee.

Not exactly - SoCal, TX, WA and Canuckland.

6% per Taz's test. Snow's melted, thanks.
posted by deborah 20 February | 22:16
On taz's test, I'm 20% Winn-Dixie, 23% A&P, 31% Kroger and 26% Trader Joes.
posted by wendell 20 February | 22:50
Heh: 99% Dixie. Is General Lee your grandfather?!
posted by BoringPostcards 20 February | 23:20
38% on the first test. Since moving to Arkansas in 2003, I've traded in crayfish for crawdads. I still drink soda, though.
posted by box 21 February | 00:08
36% Dixie. You are definitely a Yankee.
I am most definitely not a Yankee and I don't even know what a "Dixie" is.

On taz's test I got 9% Dixie. Need help digging out of the snow? I still don't know what a "Dixie" is and I sure don't need help digging out of the snow, never having seen snow up close in my life.
posted by dg 21 February | 00:19
"Is General Lee your grandfather?!"

Generally.
posted by mischief 21 February | 00:39
41% Dixie. Barely in Yankeedom.

(I don't think barely is correct here)
posted by seanyboy 21 February | 03:22
I still don't know what a "Dixie" is

Ah, "Dixie".

"Dixieland" is, basically, the "rebel" or confederate southern states that participated in the civil war. Which means the term has become almost entirely synonymous with pro-slavery, anti-civil rights, etc. (especially in the northern states), which is a shame since the etymology of the word itself is (perhaps) quite nice. Where I come from, it's totally accepted that it originated from the ten dollar bill, a "Dix" in French-owned Louisiana, and that the river boats travelling up and down the Mississippi from New Orleans carrying goods, traders, gamblers, etc. spread the curency and it's nickname "Dixie".

There are other theories, like it originated from the Mason Dixon line, but this, to me, seems unlikely. Southern states identifying themselves with an unknown English surveyor (Dixon) who happened to set a boundary involving the British colonies of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware? I find that highly doubtful. Though, as with most things, I'm sure it was a bit of this and a bit of that that made the term widespread; once it became very important which side of the country you lived on, the Mason Dixon line became more prominent, but referring to the "south" as Dixie or Dixieland before that surely had other origins (sez I).

The fact that the minstrel song "Dixie" became the sort of unofficial but ubiquitous "anthem" of the confederate side during the war is what ultimately established the term in the national lexicon.
posted by taz 21 February | 04:06
Homesick, a little, taz?
posted by paulsc 21 February | 04:16
It's my fate and destiny to be forever homesick; I can't be anywhere anymore without being homesick. If I were back in New Orleans, or anywhere in the states, I'd be homesick for Greece. I can't be in Greece without being homesick for the States, to some degree (the Bush years have eased that pain). New Orleans is a pain in my heart after Katrina, as it's hardly even there to be homesick for anymore. I'm already homesick for Thessaloniki, and I haven't even properly left her yet (to move to Athens).
posted by taz 21 February | 04:33
On taz' test I get 100% Dixie. Is General Lee your grandfather?!. Yeay!
As for being homesick everywhere - it also has the advantage that you can be at home everywhere. Two sides of same coin!
posted by dabitch 21 February | 05:46
35% Dixie. You are definitely a Yankee. I don't have much of an identifiable Jersey accent, more of a Brady Bunch accent.
posted by octothorpe 21 February | 07:18
79% Dixie. Your neck must be a just little rosy!

I have chitterlings to tend to, whatever the fuck those are.
posted by trondant 21 February | 12:11
And 100% on taz's test.
posted by trondant 21 February | 12:25
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