Are you more a Yankee or Southerner?

I am feeling like a redneck here....anyone else hit 95%? And I can not stand country music!!!

 

Don't feel bad. I had to cheat to keep my score low. Cue Dueling Banjos.
Being southern has nothing to do with being redneck, anyway - although my accent really helps the ambience......
rt
'have worked on a sharecropped cotton farm in Alabama....'

Hey - same amount of posts!

 

Neither, but the older i get, the more i appreciate certain aspects of Southern culture, leaving aside the "race" issue, which may be difficult. What i mean, and no insult intended to anyone, is that the slow, genteel style is more and more appealing after living in the greater New York City area for nearly 25 years.
Are Southern drivers as rude as New York/New Jersey drivers? My only distinct memory is me high-tailing it to Florida in the boxer with an older Cadillac following swiftly behind, driven by a more than middle aged lady with done hair and a cigarette in her hand. (Oh, yeah, and the front plate on the Caddy, which i could see thru my rear view was one o them good ol' rebel flags). Oh, yeah, i also really dig biscuits and gravy.

 

Whart,
This is something I have never realized until a friend of mine from New York City was riding with me. We came up to a red light and I stopped to let somebody pull in since it made no difference to add one more car between me and the light. He laughed and told me there was no way that people could just slide in to traffic like that. The person waved as she got in front of me and that too suprised him. The whole time he was here he kept telling me how different it is up there. I tend to want to believe that people up there are not as "vicious" as he came off but it seems that it is the way things roll up there. Is it just that everyone is in a hurry or just the fact that traffic is usually backed up and road rage takes over? Our problem down here is yur slooooooooooooooow drivers that are in NO HURRY AT ALL.

 

Let's cut to the chase. Can you buy fried catfish and hushpuppies up north?

 

63% dixie, and I grew up in New York and New England

 

Yep, but most of the restaurants that serve them are either "faux" cajan or black-run soul food places. My favorite is in Saratoga, called Hattie's Chicken Shack. Hattie ran the place into her late 80's and used to serve all nite during horse racing season at the Saratoga Springs track. The place was taken over by a youngish wall st. woman, and its still very good. Fresh peach cobbler, delicious fried chicken, etc. Highly recommended.

 

43% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.


Funny being Canadian living in Texas and all......

 

78% dixie - WTF! some of those were dead on - feeder road, esp... never heard the word until i moved to youston!

 

"73% (Dixie). That is a pretty strong Southern score!"

Hmmm.. I was born in California and have lived NY since 1982. Although I did live in TX for 5 years when I was younger. I guess that had a significant effect on my upbringing!

 

46% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

I lived in MS longer than I would like.

I grew up in the Midwest (NE & KS) and it is where I consider home.

I applied to the Ivy Leagues, K State, UNO & Creighton while everyone else in my high school was begging to get into "Ole Miss".

 

73% Dixie for me. Who knew?

 

52% Southern. Geez, I'm born and raised in Suburban Philadelphia, but I did get around a little in my youth.

I would have guessed I was about 100% Northerner.

Relatives fought in the NY militia in Revolutionary War, Ohio and PA units in the Civil War, so I guess I'm pretty Northern as far as that goes.

Oh well, guess I'll talk to y'all later.

 

The "kindly" NY-ers leave a gap. If the merging driver will jump into it, you let them.
Anyone who needs a full-stop, hand-gesture invite is a slow-poke you don't want to be stuck behind.
He who hesitates is taxi-chow.

 

Born and raised in the Country called TEXAS!

 

66% Dixie, both parents from Caintucky...

 

57% Dixie.

I'm a native Californian but Dad's family left Missoura when he was 3.

That exposure gives me a bit of hill billy in my sayings.

It also means I really relate to Jeff Foxworthy's comedy.


Erich
The south is a state of mind not a place