Are You More Yankee......Or Dixie?

Yankee/Dixie Quiz

Here's a silly, fun little quiz to test your dialect, and see if you have a little more of the Yankee or the Dixie in how you speak.

I came in at:

70% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!



I agree with the results. Even though I've lived in Colorado most of my life, which is a diverse state culturally, I grew up much of my early life and summers in southeast Missouri, southern Illinois and Tennessee. My parents and much of their families grew up in the south and in my childhood I had that southern diction in sounding syllables.

I remember ever so often as a little boy I'd always shout in victory looking for bugs saying, "Look, mommy, it's a roly-poly, roly-poly!" (giggles) And I do like to refer to the lobster-creatures in streams as crawdads, because my grandpa calls them that and it sounds cute, it's like when you say it there's a spright in your heels! I guess I just have that bright firefly whimsy in my heart always!



However, I do call carbonated beverages "pop" (I actually always say Pepsi generally, or by brand name, but when I speak of beverages in general that are carbonated, I do always say "pop".) and roads close to the highway "frontage roads", so I come from both backgrounds. :)

I never knew they had a name for the night before Halloween! (giggles) Cabbage Night is an interesting name though!

Just thinking about the cultural divide of carbonated beverage names got me thinking about which regions speak what, which ones say coke, which ones say pop, which ones say soda, which ones say caramel-colored tinny juice, etc. So I did some investigating and came across this groundbreaking site:



http://www.popvssoda.com/

Interesting that from where my parents and their families grew up (Missouri, southern Illinois) Soda seems to have a hold there geographically, yet they say Pop.

Looks like Pop and Coke are in a statistical dead heat, while Soda, though an underdog, has plenty of attention. Hey, what do you think they call these drinks in the Carolinas (Other has a wide scope there). Anyone know? Magnus is a fellow Carolina poet friend of mine, maybe he can help us out here. I've heard soda water and cold drink a lot from that region. I also saw a lot of pink in some of the Northeast states. They call it tonic in Massachusetts quite a lot! (giggles)

Care to share your results, y'all?

By the way, congratulations on KBOO for making history today by qualifying for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's matching-grant funds (approximately $60,000 each year over the next four years) promotion, by collecting over $90,000 in volunteer-contributed cash! :) This is a happy, beautiful day for community radio, and this truly will serve as the spiking horse that upgrades KBOO for the future, while also maintaining the classic essence of community.

How about a round of E-yerba mates on the house, my treat! :) That's what they call them here, right? ;)

Love,
Noah Eaton
(Mistletoe Angel)
(Emmanuel Endorphin)