Yankee or Dixie????

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I think this test is rigged! BTW the only drive through likker place I ever saw is in Yulee, FL. Its a little bar & grill with great sandwiches and has a window where folks drive up and get package booze. Never heard of Yulee? Its a suburb of the tiny hamlet of Homosassa Springs.

we have drive throughs dotted everywhere here. BUT..get this, it is against the law to drink and drive. So, the loop hole is that they serve you cup w/a lid and a straw taped to it.

50% Yankee and proud of it. Western PA people have our own way of saying lots of words. That thing on top of you home is a roof..said like hoof. One more: In Pittsburgh we go to the Strip. Now, it's not where women/men dance...it a section of the city that has outdoor shopping, and the freshest produce in the tri-state area.

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78% Southern not too bad. I only took it once and tried to do the answers without thinking.

40% Yankee. Geez .... I would've thought I'd get a higher number...


guess I'll have to spend more time in the CRICK looking for roly-polies. Go DahnTahn and get me a sammmich n'at.

:) Pittsburgh-native proud.

KIki'sDad,

We have drive thru likker places here, but they don't sell it open container, only sealed and capped tight.

We had drive thru's in OH but none of what that had listed were the name we called them. I don't remember my answer but if it was none that was it. I, too, tried to answer without thinking.

75% Dixie....guess moving to the deep south had something to do with that. I thought I was a Yankee through and through.

Ya'll wouldn't have guessed that, eh?

I can't believe I am more DIXIE then Mystic! 82%....and I was born in WV...where we said POKE and POP all the time. Jo

I finally did it. LOL 61% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score! I have to laugh about this. When I go down South, they tell me I must be from up North because I talk through my nose. When I go up North, they tell me I must be from the South cuz I have one heck of a twang. And Vic, we still call them drive thrus. Most of them are just called So and So Beverage now or Carry out, but they are still drive thrus! LOL

Jo, you were from the Dixie side of town, it appears. :) As far as drive thru liquor stores, I think everyone of the stores here has a drive thru. I don't know because I only go to one and that is to get Makers Mark for my bourbon pound cakes! But, I do pass a bar called The Corner (rough place) about 5 miles down the road from our farm and they have a drive-up window where you can buy 6 packs and such! It is weird, don't drink and drive, but drive up for your drink.

When I lived in NC, I remember a thing called Brown Bagging, there was even a bar in Jacksonville called The Brown Bagger Of course, I never went in there, just saw the sign. You brought in your own liquor in a brown bag and bought a soda or pop, I think they call it that in NC, and mixed your own. At some point, I think they changed it where you could buy mixed drinks and they call it now, Liquor by the Drink. Am I correct? :) Kathy

'tis true, Kathy. I remember when you couldn't get a liquor drink in NC. And to brown bag it was usually only in places that served food. (There were quite a few times me and friends would jump on our motorcycles and drive to SC just for a mixed drink.)

I'm 41% Yankee- just barely! HUNH???????????
Most of my answers came out in the Great Lakes region. Ok, so there's this big section of the country that ain't really New England Yankee and surely not Dixie. We aren't considered Midwest - not flat enough. And I definitely live in the eastern Great Lakes. Ok, so it's southwestern NY, hmmmm. Maybe that's why me daughter had no trouble fitting in in southwestern Kentucky!!

Kathleen, being a New England transplant to Kentucky, anyone fits in in Kentucky.....You will meet all kinds of people here....phew! :)

hehe Jo........... we have rubbed off on you.

Shoe, I think The Brown Bagger was a Honky Tonk. I don't remember it being a restaurant. Do they call it Liquor By The Drink now?

Well, it looks like no matter where we're from or transplanted to....the one language we all speak well and don't have trouble communicating with is gardening, plants, soil, flowers, trees, shrubs, etc., etc., etc.,.....

57% Dixie????? ....maybe because my great-great-great grandparents lived in that region before they moved to Canada.

Here is my version of Brown Bagging: Before the Liquor By The Drink law was passed we used to go to clubs...Like Moose, Eagles, and especially the Son's Of Italy (who sponsored a dance everyt Saturday night)....siince no liquor was sold then you had to bring your own in a brown bag (or a POKE as we West Virginian's say!!)......AHHHHH Memories~~~!! Jo

this closet yankee is 61% Dixie

75% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score!

hrm..
i'da thought i'd be more dixie than that!
lol
i've lived here my whole life :)

68% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!

OUCH!!!!! It must be because of my mother being from Alabama, lol! I have lived in the NW almost all my life!

45 for the Yankee's. Just barely made it, so the test said. Maybe that is cause I am from South Central Iowa. This was fun.

I was born in NYC and was there during part of my childhod until age 11. My score came in 71% southern because I have been in the south the rest of my life except for about 6 months. It was interesting that some of my answers (I took it twice) were related to the Pennsylvania area, where a lot of people who settled here started out ithere, and came down over the "The Great Wagon Trail."

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51% Dixie here. My parents were married in Cumberland, MD so maybe I was conceived in a hotel on the Mason-Dixon line during their honeymoon? LOL I think what may have been the deciding factor to put me on the Dixie side was that I have visited the NC Outer Banks and have seen the Brew Thru's there so I knew what they were talking about.
What surprised me about this is the question on how you pronounce route. For Route 66 I'd use "root", but if someone was asking for directions I'd use the other one. There was a couple of others that I would also pronounce differently depending on the situation. Am I the only one who does this?

Chele, we are twins! 61% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!

I have never been south! The first time I heard Cala and Tracey on the phone I could not understand a word they said!

Here in California after 30 years, people still say I sound like Boston where I lived until I was in 3rd grade.

What fun!

63 % Dixie mama what have you done to me you have taken me to a place where you can't shoot turkeys and they are thick here they drive cars. Ernie

Carol, I am the same way with "route"...I think it is because of the song "Route 66" and the way we hear it pronounced...but it comes natural for us to use rout in talking about a certain route>...Gee...does that make sense? If it does then that's the first time I ever made any sense! LOL JO

ernie, you make me giggle all the time :)

48% Yankee, guess I would have thought Dixie as I was born in OK but guess living up here this long has had its effect. MaryE we got about the same it looks like.

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48% Yankee, guess I would have thought Dixie as I was born in OK but guess living up here this long has had its effect. MaryE we got about the same it looks.

OOOh, I haven't ever been to the States, but I'm 52% Dixie LOL

Must be a Brit thing louisa ;D

72% Dixie here (don't even know what it is). Must be the S. English connection

LOL Baa. How come you're more Dixie than like what I am *g*

A lot of the early settlers of Dixie were immigrants from England, Scotland and Ireland. I noticed a lot of so called southern words that we think of as only being from the deep south being used in England, Scotland and Ireland and even in Australia.

I'm very ignorant on this - what are the accepted geographical boundaries of 'Yankie' and 'Dixie'?

I'd always imagines the English accent as being nearest to say Boston. But that's fascinating Elena - the words and accent don't necessarily coincide perhaps?

The English and Scottish Irish settlers in our country were more inclined to settle in hilly or mountain areas because it reminded them of home. (My own anscestors were either from England or from Scotland.) Folk music, country music, bluegrass, etc. has its roots in the kind of music that they brought with them to this country. Likewise the sayings, expressions, etc. They started out on the east coast when they arrived and slowly settled down the eastern part of the US and then across the south and on to Texas for the most part. Therefore for many years the "ways" of the oldtimers were still closely related to the old country especially in rural areas where many of them were inclined to go. Things are changing rapidly in these more modern times however and I think that culture factor will soon be a thing of the past as the world becomes smaller as far as television, radio, etc. (Tongue in cheek here, but maybe someday we will all be just alike. LOL)

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You're undoubtedly right Elena - as the world gets a smaller place and people travel and settle more and more the differences are eroded. It'll take a long time though, thank goodness. The world would be a much less interesting place without all the diversity

Lots of English, Scots, and Irish in me so I guess that would explain the Dixie...interesting to see how well DG's Brits made out.