How yankee or rebel are you? (Atlanta, Savannah: house, neighborhood, school)

[netdragon]

Are You a Yankee or a Rebel? - alphaDictionary * Southern Accent Test

It said I was "Duke of Yankeedom"

[bryantm3]

79% Dixie. Your neck must be a just little rosy!

i took this years ago and i got 100% southern. my accent is waning a bit. if i change a couple of answers, such as "rolling" a house which is what they called it when i was little (i'm only 23), to "tepeeing" a house which is what i hear now, it gives me a score of "barely in dixie". an interesting discovery i made when i gave this test to several people, people with british accents almost always score above 50%, leaning towards the "dixie" end of the line.

if you find this sort of thing interesting, the university of wisconsin did a study of over 100 phrases and pronunciations in the us, you can go through and see which answers were the most popular:

http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/maps.html

[joey86]

I got 79. Why do people think we call all drinks Coke?

[cislga]

61%Dixie! When I travel I get a lot of compliments about my accent. Even though I wasn't raised in south but spent all my summers in south GA. I notice my accent will change depending on whom I'm talking to.

A coke is a coke! I went to a boarding school that the coca-cola heirs(woodruffs) donated heavily too. It will always be Coke to me!

[aries4118]

Wow. I got 87% Dixie. I was surprised--

I am a native, pure Southerner and a native Atlantan, but I grew up (age 3-18) in fashionable East Cobb. When I speak in more professional, mainstream, and non-familiar settings, people say they don't hear a Southern accent except for when I use "y'all."

My Southern accent comes out more around my family.

East Cobb (along with North Fulton) is known for having less Southern characteristics (accents, etc.) than other parts of the metro area. A big chunk of the kids that I grew up with in my neighborhood were born in the Midwest (Ohio and Illinois, in particular) but moved to Atlanta when they were preschool/elementary age.

[arjay57]

61% Dixie for me. I grew up in south Atlanta, though people tell me they don't hear an accent in my voice. However, I do say icing, roly-poly, water fountain and I do put my groceries in a bag.

[cqholt]

87% Dixie. Do you still use Confederate money?
Raised in South Florida then moved to north Alabama.

[WanderingImport]

43% Dixie. Barely in Yankeedom.
Ha! That's funny considering I grew up in Savannah and was born in Alabama. Aside from that, I don't have a southern accent and this kinda proves it. I do travel a lot which definitely watered it down. (I did have one as a child)
Really though, it changes according to whom I'm talking with.

[lorilove]

48% Dixie. Barely in Yankeedom

That makes sense since I grew up in Central Florida and for work I travel all across the US but I still primarily identify with the South.

[waronxmas]

0% Dixie. LOL