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3 Comments for “Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?”

1. 

   1chuck myguts

   wrote on 19 December 2005 at 8:09

   If you got to take the test, then it’s kind of obvious that you ain’t from around here.
   Besides, the most obvious test is how many generations, not years, till you’re a true southerner and not a poser.
2. 

   2Jo

   wrote on 19 December 2005 at 8:17

   65% (Dixie). Just under the Mason-Dixon Line

   I’ve been done south since 1977 — hmmm
3. 

   3David

   wrote on 19 December 2005 at 12:10

   76% Dixie, cos I knew the “right” terminology, not that I use it so much. Grew up a Confederate (not a Rebel) Stater, born and bred, but I don’t sound like or have the same kinds of phrases rolling off my tongue as my parents and sibs, mainly cos I always have read so much, and had (too many) voice lessons. So, my pronunciation as well as my vocab are skewed away from family norms.

   Still, philospohically, I’m much more of a Confederate Stater than my family who still say “warsh rag” (and keep in mind that most of them have as many—or more—advanced degrees as I do. heh) or whatever. One can, after all be culturally Southern (or “Southren” w/o being philosophically wedded to the reality that “the Constitution died at Appomattox”.

   :-)