Comments on: 63% Dixie

By: stormy03bravo

stormy03bravo — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:26:02 +0000

50% Yankee – which is probably about right according to my business partner….being that I am from South Jersey – a portion of which he likes to note is below the Mason-Dixon line….

Virgil- what fighter squadron and time frame were you in Danang? My uncle was at Danang until 9/30/71 (my name on here is in recognition of him)….I’m always on the lookout for people who may have flew with him.

By: Boyd Robinson

Boyd Robinson — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:43:26 +0000

When I took this test I scored 100% Dixie. It even asked me if Robert E. Lee was my grandfather. Though he was not my grandfather, we do have a common ancestor in Charles Lee of Northhampton County Virginia born in 1656. I was born and raised in Texas and left Texas in 1966 (some say to become a Vista Volunteer in North Dakota and if you remember that Federal Program, you are at least as old as I am) Since North Dakota, I have lived in Michigan, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. There is an old adage that says you can acquire a Texas or Southern accent but you can’t lose one. Apparently, If I’m an example you can’t lose Southern speech habits either. Or maybe one just does not want to lose such cultural treasures!

By: Quartermaster

Quartermaster — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:44:30 +0000

43% Southern born and bred, but too much time as a MILBrat in Germany, Oregon, then 13 years in SE Ohio. Of course, this one is just about speech patterns. The tests that look for attitudes I score quite high into the Confed category.

By: P-3W

P-3W — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:34:47 +0000

Hmm … 74% Dixie. Born in Florida. Never lived longer than 3 years anywhere until high school in Idaho — then I married a Navy man and traveled some more. However, I’ve got a good ear for accents (except for relatives in Savannah, GA — somehow, they’re the toughest to understand).

But then again, I’m the one who was raised by left-handed parents who were both taught to be right-handed on some things, so I do those left-handed.

Just call me messed up.

By: Casey

Casey — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:12:50 +0000

71% Dixie. Not bad for a southwest-Ohio boy.

Then again, my mom was from West Virginia, and I grew up about a dozen miles south of Hamilton, Ohio, known locally as “Hamiltucky.”

Inferring from the test, there’s a healthy subset of “Great Lakes”-speak in southwest Ohio. I wonder if that’s due to the I-75 corridor?

By: Snake Eater

Snake Eater — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:10:58 +0000

Ron F, Fret not my boy …see my comments # 33 & # 58 above and all will be revealed…a piece of cake for a BU Alum…verdad?? Best