Have fun with this.

[IknowMe]

http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/yankee_dixie_quiz.html

My score -> 46% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

COuld someone please tell me if that's good or bad.

Wow, I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
I think I've forgotten this before.

 

[SantaMufasa]

That's true, Jomama...in the South family trees have no branches. Genealogy reasearch goes pretty quickly down there.

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[Jomama46]

in the South family trees have no branches. Genealogy reasearch goes pretty quickly down there.

ha ha ha ha. no wait, thats not funny

Jomama

 

[Gooser]

Their family tree is a Lodgepole Pine!

--Gooser

 

[tsdragon]

It's also not very true. My ex-wife is currently (just for fun) doing some research on the southern branch of my family tree, and there are LOTS of branches. I had 11 aunts and uncles somewhere in the south, and almost 100 cousins. Those figures were from when my Granny died in 1967. I don't think anyone knows how big the family tree is now, but it branches, a lot.

Tracy Dryden

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For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[SantaMufasa]

Tracey, Sorry, When I made the "no branches" comment, I could not find the Emoticon with a tongue planted firmly in its cheek.

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[Gooser]

Tracy,

It's just stereotypical fun-poking. If you took me seriously and/or had hurt feelings, I apologize. Here's a free ticket to make fun of the way I say 'sauna', 'root beer', and tack an '-eh?' on the end of every sentence. Or just punch me real hard in the arm, eh?

v/r

Gooser

 

[SilentAiche]

[note to self]

When deeply insulting large groups, blame "img[thingies]".

Cool game, this.

Tim
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[tsdragon]

No offense was taken, just an attempt to defuse a long-standing stereotype. Guess I, too, have fallen victim to the lack of visual cues in online communication. I didn't find the family tree references personally offensive at all.

Actually, my ex-wife is from Michigan (arguably NOT "The South"), and there is a lot more cross-branching and merging branches in her family tree than in mine. Makes you wonder how the stereotype ever got started.


Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[SilentAiche]

Dang, Tracy,

If you weren't so #$*% grown up, we could have had fun with this whole family tree thing.

You know, the "I married my cousin" stereotype vs. the "I married six, maybe seven, women I met at Wal-Mart" stereotype.

boB



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[tsdragon]

I thought that Wal-Mart was whar y'all went to pick up cousins. Must of run out of nice girls to pick up at the family reunion. At least yer wives dint have ta larn how ta write a new last name.


Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[johnherman]

Dixie originated from being south of the Mason-Dixon line. Mason and Dixon were surveyors contracted to establish the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania. Since the 3 counties in Delaware were still part of Penn's territory at that time, the Mason-Dixon line also separates Maryland and Delaware. Mostly, the Mason-Dixon line refers to the straight line boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania.

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[jadams0173]

81% (Dixie). Did you have any Confederate ancestors?

I tried to have patience but it took to long! -DW

 

[Lunatic]

50% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

Coming from the NW I found many of the questions problematic as it seems we use what everybody says and I had to choose the 'best' answer, even though 2 or 3 (or sometimes all 4, like question 20) would have been perfectly fine.

And then question 13, the road along the Interestate - do they have these? I don't ever remember seeing a road running along side an interstate, except when the old highway system happened to come close...

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[KenCunningham]

Ah. Mention of the Mason-Dixon line reminds me of 'Sailing To Philadelpia', a lovely song about the two men by Mark Knopfler and James Taylor.

I don't mind people who aren't what they seem. I just wish they'd make their mind up.

 

[SF0751]

They're called "access roads" (at least here in San Antonio) - they're great for traveling along if the highway is clogged up.

Susan
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work." - Thomas A. Edison

 

[Lunatic]

Are they actually roads? In Oregon there were some pretty wide shoulders, but they were hardly roads.

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[AnotherHiggins]

We have some in NC, but I associate them with highways, not interstates.

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[SF0751]

They are actual roads, with stop signs or traffic lights. The access roads are also the entrance/exit for businesses located along the highway.

The middle two lanes are Interstate Highway 35 - the outer two lanes (extreme left and extreme right) are the north- and south-bound access lanes.

Susan
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work." - Thomas A. Edison

 

[moonguppie]

49% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.


I was born in Louisville Kentucky, but moved to the midwest/Great Lakes soon after.

It is very bias to the point where it seems like if you arn't from the Atlantic coast of the north east of the US you are a Yankee.

A little knowledge is dangerous.

 

[Lunatic]

Huh... I would never have thought people would associate those types of roads with being part of the interstate system. To me those are just city streets (and cities are the only place I've ever seen anything like that).

Ya learn something new everyday.

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