dialect tester, are you yankee or dixie?

http://www.chuckchamblee.com/dom/fun/yankee_dixie_quiz.htm

That's pretty cool! It "detected" my Yankee-isms and even on Number 6 question: "Do you pronounce "cot" and "caught" the same way?" I won't give my answer here but with it the comment FOR my answer was "Favored from Pennsylvania to Ohio and Indiana". WOW! RIGHT on the money! Exactly right!

BUT!!..... here's MY final score with comment:

"57% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category."

HUH?! Sheesh! Guess I'll have to change this site to MadridMan's Dixie Home Page! Cute, fun, and interesting quiz though. Thanks for the link.

Saludos, MadridMan

Fun little quiz... it certainly nailed my southern accent (79% Dixie)! I may live in the Chicago area but my roots are for sure in the South, Virginia and New Oreleans (or should I say N'awlins ).
Kelly

Fascinating! 52% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.

I'm 53% Dixie?
Can I still be a Yankee fan??

60% Barely Dixie, sheesh

Having grown up in central Missouri, the Chicago area, and southern Indiana, I came out 52% Dixie. In looking at other answers on how my wife pronounces things (Wisconsin and Minnesota), she's 43% yankee. The linguistic locations of several pronunciations were things we had commented on before as well.

I came out 52% Dixie, probably from having ived in Oklahoma and Texas for almost 25-years

Y'all come back see us, heah!

38% Yankee, a definite Yankee. A yup!

Couldn't resist it, and I hadn't a clue what some of the questions meant anyway.

I'm glad Jo Anne tested the test. I never took you for a Southern Belle! hehehe... I was interested how NON-US'ins scored.

50% Yankee. I guess having lived in Texas changed the reading somewhat, but I did have a bunch of Eastern answers that I'm trying to figure out as to how they came into my world, being from the Midwest.

A fun test. My wife ended up 52% Dixie, and that made sense, since she hails from Southern Indiana.

Just a few miles and an extra, "Ya'll!" can make the difference.

Wolf

40% - yankee. I'm formerly from Michigan so I answered the "devil's night" question correctly

OK, I want to know if anyone calls a grocery bag a "poke". If I heard that in real life I think I would have to laugh. I may have to go to central appalacia so that I can say "can I have a poke for the milk? thanks."

You are welcome people

Who would've thought?

I grew up in scandinavia, after that lived in Canada for 17 years, really, south has been a home less than 10 years!!

Ive got relatives in Virginia and on visits out there Ive for sure heard the term 'poke' used, though not by my family (originally from New Orleans!). I think mostly though its used up in the very very small isolated mountain towns. If you get out of the cities in Virginia you get a really different feel! Ive NEVER heard that term used out there in the bigger towns, big supermarkets, etc...
Just a thought, I don't live there, nor have I ever, just visited relatives
Kelly

As a native Texan Im sad to say I only got 65% Dixie. I've been living in California too long!