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Check on your dialect and see if you might have crossed over to the "other side"! Simply click on the correct answer. As you go, the quiz will automatically interpret each answer to show you what your answer implies about you. When you are done, press Compute My Score. Your score will be calculated as a percentage:
0% is pure Yankee and 100% is pure Dixie.
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toilet paper was not popular around here. However, the toilet paper strung all over a tall tree was a fad with high school kids. My daughter told me many years ago that when a girl had her yard tree toilet papered it meant she was popular and well liked...decorate the homestead. Hmmmm..bet Dad never though so. Never see much of TP a tree anymore.
Probably the 'over the house' was not done because the kid with the strong arm had to get close to the house and risk some rock salt in his butt from a shotgun. When I was in high school in the late 40's rock salt was popular with farmers against high school raids at night on his watermellon field. Actually never witnessed anyone getting shot....the farmer would shoot up in the air or into some side fence row brush and scare hell out of everyone who by this time were running in overdrive.
Shame kids wasted TP. Remember reading about a shortage in Russia and they actually being out for a long period of time. Well my grandpa had the Sears and Montogmery Wards Catalogs in his outhouse (before the softer telephone books). Understand some had corncobs, but seems a little harsher. Branch tree moss when available used to come in handy when caught in the wild.
Thanks John
Don't think we've ever had that tradition here, though they were thrown onto football pitches after the match. The rolls usually stayed as rolls (rather than streamers) though, so maybe they should have practised on their houses first!
How do you catch the wild moss BTW? Rock-salt rifles? 
7000 years of "civilsation" without the soft stuff makes me wonder which would be universally considered the better invention, i.e. that or computers. I know which one I'd vote for ... OTOH, we couldn't be talking now, so perhaps there is something to be said for Mr Gates after all.
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Mo
Not bad for a transplant. Maybe it's because I spent most of my early childhood in Texas.
I still haven't adopted all of the Southernisms the survey listed. I'm not sure I'll ever get used to using 'Coke' as a generic name for soft drinks, but I know people do it.
60% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.
I was expecting to be called yanky - well I never 
Lot of fun - thanks Rosalie
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Steve, just out of curiosity are you a member of the Tory and Labour Party? What's the difference between the two?
The tory party is very similar to the Republicans, and the labour party is left wing, but not so left as it was in the past, and can be thought of as the democrat party.
I have been tory most of my life, as I have found them to be good for business. But having said that I favoured the old wilson government, labour, because they had the right idea about supporting small business, which is one thing the tory party has failed to do for a long time.
It would be interesting to know if the Democrats or the Republicans are best at supporting small family size businesses. Which party would give the best deal to the small business?
I think small businesses are as important as very large ones. After all, how many "large" businesses started up as a "small" business.
Henry "Ford" was very small to start with, but look how large that company is now.
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When I moved to a suburb of Southern Cincinnati, 15 minutes away from Kentucky and having previously lived in suburbs of Chicago, Detroit and Buffalo NY, I was the one with the accent, lol....and believe it or not, most people here either pinpointed "my accent" as Chicago or Pennsylvania.
Lee
Hi Lee,
Yep, no suprise that I scored 36% and Yankee. I've only lived in the Northeast. But I was surprised at how many of my responses were referenced to the NYC area specifically. Then of course "grinder" being a CT thing also probably helped!
Evie
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94%, but with a proviso:
The sandwich I call a po-boy
The tiny lobster I called a crawdad when young,mudbug when older.
When I was growing up, the roads along the Interstate highway from Memphis to New Orleans(down the center of Mississippi) were called frontage roads, and so labeled. Trivia note: the last stop light on an Interstate was in Jackson, Mississippi, and was a roaring pain.
The bug I selected roly poly as I'd heard some girls use that term, but we called them doodle bugs, nuts to the textbooks.
Note: Charmin brand was the best for rolling a yard, you could split it into two (double-layered) if you were careful and get twice the bang for your buck.
No mention of Moon Pies?
Yeah, I was kinda stumped on the Poboy question too. I also noticed they didn't mention lightning bugs, ie light bugs or fireflies or whatever. They also didn't ask nuthin' 'bout branchwater.
Another "natural": Think about a small square hamburger. A yankee will call it a White Castle, and a southerner will call it a Krystal.
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