How do you score?

**Chile Pepper** · 11-29-2007, 03:39 PM

Well, I scored 60% on the first test--barely in Dixie

But I only scored 14% on the advanced test.

**VeloVT** · 11-29-2007, 03:51 PM

Hmmmm....

20% on the "original test"
21% on the "advanced test"

oddly consistent.

**OakLeaf** · 11-29-2007, 04:05 PM

52%, "barely in Dixie." Which is about right for an Appalachian transplant. (Which rhymes with apple-catchin', btw.) But 79% on the advanced test!

I have to object to the question about "route," though.

Rhymes with "root" (which rhymes with "put"), no.

Rhymes with "rout" (which rhymes with "doubt"), no.

Almost rhymes with "rut" (which rhymes with "butt"), no.

"Route" rhymes with "coot." Of course.

**firenze11** · 11-29-2007, 04:10 PM

I loved this!

The first one I got 83% Dixie - Do you still use Confederate money? And on the advanced one I got 49% Barely in Yankeedom. It makes sense though, I used to live in Maryland but I'm now in Canada so my accent is all kinds of mixed up.

I always wanted a Southern accent though and was told I had one when I moved here, so I'm gonna take the 83% and run with it

I do say "eh" for kicks and giggles though now.

**Mr. Bloom** · 11-29-2007, 04:43 PM

61% Dixie.Well under the Mason-Dixon Line.

Not bad for a "buoy from Burminham Alabamy..." must have been my sophisticated southern breeding and all those years of private school...ya'll.

Yes, I was at 'Bama when "BARe Bryant" died...I was actually in Accounting 201 taught by Gorman Jones (now that's an Alabama name!)

**snapdragen** · 11-29-2007, 04:50 PM

Originally Posted by GLC1968

What I did find funny is that the largest % of my answeres were Michigan/Great Lakes in origin. I only lived there for 3 years!

Me too - and I've never lived anywhere but California.

36% Dixie

**sbctwin** · 11-29-2007, 04:59 PM

41% Dixie. Barely in Yankeedom. Dixie? I've grew up in California, then moved to Washington state for a few years, onto Colorado for another couple, up to Wyoming for 9 years and have been in Utah for 17...Dixie?

**kelownagirl** · 11-29-2007, 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by OakLeaf

I have to object to the question about "route," though.

Rhymes with "root" (which rhymes with "put"), no.

Uh no, I don't think so.

"root" and "route" are pronounced the same and neither rhymes with "put"!

They both rhyme with "hoot" and "toot" and "shoot" although sometimes, I say "route" rhyming with "shout".

**boy in a kilt** · 11-29-2007, 06:03 PM

73%, my neck is a little Rosy.

Full disclosure. My dad was born and grew up in Northern Louisiana. I was born in Mississippi but I've only been back to Biloxi a few times.

**Trek420** · 11-29-2007, 07:38 PM

And the only time I've been to the South was a week in Key West

**salsabike** · 11-29-2007, 11:27 PM

9% Dixie. Need help digging out of the snow? You can take the girl out of the northeast...

**teigyr** · 11-29-2007, 11:38 PM

26%. Of course my mom's from Calif then lived in Bahrain (went to British boarding school in India) and then went to high school/college in Connecticut and Vermont. My dad's from Massachusetts. I was born in SoCal and lived my whole life there except for the past 5 or so years.

I feel conflicted.

**Bron** · 11-30-2007, 12:19 AM

33% Dixie. What's all that about? I'm Welsh!

Actually, I had to leave some of them blank, I would never address a group of people with any varient of "you all", surely its "ladies and gentlemen"?

**Mr. Bloom** · 11-30-2007, 01:49 AM

Originally Posted by Trek420

And the only time I've been to the South was a week in Key West

Trek: You haven't lived until you've visited Savannah Georgia or Charleston SC! It's a time warp

They're a step just above Reform Alabama and Red Boiling Springs Tennessee!

Or, you could go visit the Boll Weevil monument in Enterprise Alabama

**bmccasland** · 11-30-2007, 04:10 AM

Originally Posted by Hub

Yankees- abroad it means folks from the United States- here in the states it means the folks that wore dark blue in what we Mississippians like to call the Recent Unpleasantness- more commonly refered to as the Civil War (1861-65).
Pscyclepath can tell you a lot more about it- he's the family historian & a Civil War re-enactor.

See also- Yamn Dankee

It was the "War of Northern Aggression" and there was nothin' civil about that Wah.

American history was truly amazing when I moved from Louisiana to Michigan. Having an Ozark hillbilly for a Dad and my mom is from the northern Louisiana - but I grew up in the Air Force, I find my choice of words changing. How I acually pronounce things is a mix too. On the advanced test I scored 48% Dixie.

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