Are You A Yankee Or A Rebel?

I lived in Huntington before moving to Texas.

cuz i've yet to see anywhere in your posts where you've said any of these:

howdy partner

i reckon

i'm fixin' to

or, ya'll come back now yer hear

Congrats Brainzz...that's why we get along so well!

Watch it, I resemble that remark Living in SC and working in NC provides an interesting blend of expressions. I was recently in Georgia for a recital and was hosted by some native North Carolinians. They said a typical NC phrase and I knew exactly what they meant. The people from Georgia didn't know what they meant. Even here, the 20 miles across the border means differing expressions and a different accent.

52% Dixie. Barely in Dixie. Which sounds about right for someone living in South Florida.

HA! nothing against the south - after living in NYC all my life i've grown to appreciate it. i also go south every summer for recreation, as it were. you're right about the differing "expressions and accents" amongst the south as a whole. although that's not so bad, because when i travel south they never know what the heck i'm talking about and dismiss my 'northern accent' as undecipherable and unlearned.

53% Dixie. Barely in Dixie. Well, I try.

So, do you sing "Yank My Doodle, It's a Dandy"? Sorry, just couldn't resist!

21% Dixie. Staunch Yankee, even if we moved to California in 1953 when I was 4 years old.

For years I couldn't figure out why we were so different, it wasn't until a girl from New England enrolled in my high school and we got together and compared notes that I realized that we "weren't California normal".

Here is my theory on why native Californians in particular are so different: when the west was being "won"; criminals, lawyers, wacko's and other anti-social elements went west, and reproduced.

28% Dixie. Hmm--you think having lived 7 years in the south I would have been a greater percentage. I guess I best be fixin' ta get ma shotgun and ma old truck, the one with the biggun's :)

Depending on where a person lives in the north, I do have a hard time understanding their speech patterns. Parts of Brooklyn, Queens, northern NJ can be all but undecipherable to my ears. It's a combination of the accent and the rat-a-tat-tat quickness of the speech patterns. Down here, we tend to draw out our words and make short words have 14 syllables. LOL

"65% Dixie. Just under the Mason-Dixon Line."

Makes sense since even though I moved around a lot, most of that time was in the south.

"31% Dixie. You are definitely a Yankee."

If they say so ... I rather think my passport says otherwise, though.

I am the Tshirt Rebel.

'Nuff Said.

Are you from northern Germany? lol