Do I really need to tell you? Despite my honey-sweet Southern hospitality and charming wit and demeanor… I am ALL Yankee. “The heart of Yankeedom: New Yawk and New Joisey.” Dat’s me! :D Proud of it. I keep those single syllabic words SINGLE, mind you. ;)
Here’s my proof: I took an Internet quiz! If that doesn’t settle it, I don’t know what does!
0% Dixie. Need help digging out of the snow?
Are You a Yankee or a Rebel? Quiz
I’m surprised I didn’t get a negative number for Dixie. I’m not 100% Yankee, however, having a healthy “Mid-Atlantic” vocabulary and accent. In drama school in Manhattan, we had to take Voice & Speech to rid ourselves of any colloquialisms and accents. Some people had a really, really difficult time doing it, especially those from Germany, Massachusetts, and Georgia.
Anyway, it’s a cute quiz, complied by a “specialist.” Oo la la. If you go for it, tell me what score you got!
I’m a married mom with 4 kids. We live in Upstate New York in an old 1855 house with our five pets (yes, five, *sigh*). Life is never dull, and exciting things just seem to always happen to me... why me... when I'm not running around the house fixing things, I do freelance writing and blogging. My work and opinions have appeared in Salon.com, USAToday, eHow.com, iMedia.com, the Associated Press and I've even been interviewed by TIME and The Wall Street Journal about blogging. Can you believe it?! Here is where I express my zany, creative, motherly side. 
April 17, 2009 at 11:12 pm
I love that quiz, and I am amazed that you got 0%. I can’t remember my percentage, but my description says “Just south of the Mason-Dixon line” which is 100% correct! My husband gets something like, “95% Dixie…can you breathe down there?”