Here are my results. There must be something wrong with the test though. I cannot believe I missed a question. Those two years in South Bend, Indiana must have corrupted me in some way. 
Dixie Royal
You are 91% true Southern! |
| You are pure belle or gentleman! You know your Jones Soda, Nehi and RC colas, your Moon Pies and sweet potato pie; you’d absolutely die without air conditioners in the summer, and you’ve seen Steel Magnolias and Fried Green Tomatoes (or read the book!). Your grandmother lives in an antebellum home and has a cook who makes the best fried chicken and asparagus casserole and summer squash and everything else in the world. And you know the taste of honeysuckle and the feel of grass between your toes. You are blessed. |
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My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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You scored higher than 81% on Southerliness |
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April 30th, 2006 at 8:29 am
Now, if we only knew George Allen’s score…
April 30th, 2006 at 8:38 am
The seems to be rightly calibrated…I got a 97%.
Yep, I think those years in Indiana corrupted ya
April 30th, 2006 at 8:43 am
Seriously, these things always kinda irritate me. Anyone who thinks that “cow tipping” (has anyone ever actually done this outside of a bad movie?) and Gone With the Wind (I’d say having seen or read GWTW counts against southern-ness, in the case of men) are the touchstones of the South needs to find some cliches that are at least halfway relevant. Most people under 65 at my parents’ church back home seem to show up in khakis and polo shirts, at best, not white buckskin loafers or hats with floral arrangements (this in a non-Atlanta part of Georgia).
April 30th, 2006 at 11:23 am
Yeah, it was seriously cliched, and I scored a low 31%, but that’s ok since my folks left the South for the Promised Land, in search of Real BBQ, back in the 19th Century.
April 30th, 2006 at 11:51 am
A longtime resident of the South, albeit in the city, I had never heard of cow-tipping until I visited my father’s home town in upstate NY.
April 30th, 2006 at 12:58 pm
“Dixie Royal
You are 92% true Southern!”
corny…
April 30th, 2006 at 3:57 pm
I’m 93% Southern..
Feddie: bless your poor little heart…a boy born in Jersey beat ya!
April 30th, 2006 at 4:41 pm
That just shows that the test is fundamentally flawed.
April 30th, 2006 at 6:20 pm
SLAD -
I scored 98%. I guess I’ll always be a redneck.
April 30th, 2006 at 8:16 pm
Steve,
I guess that honorary Southern Belle certificate paid off. I was ranked a
“Displaced Southerner
You are 77% true Southern”
April 30th, 2006 at 8:54 pm
Steve,
The only thing a familiarity with Steel Magnolias or Fried Green Tomatoes proves is that you have been spending too much time in the ladies department. A little more ESPN and a little less E! please.
May 1st, 2006 at 7:09 am
The test is fundamentally flawed. It refers to “y’all” as the “second person plural.” It is most definitively not.
“Y’all” is the second person familiar. *”All y’all” is the second person plural.”
Sheesh. I’m originally from New York and knew that. I bet this test was made by off shore labor. Probably Uzbekistanis.
May 1st, 2006 at 7:54 am
Al–I think not. Anyone who calls a single individual person “y’all” is no more southern than Gen. Grant eating a bowl of cream of wheat.
May 1st, 2006 at 8:40 am
cow tipping has nothing to do with tipping over cows(they sleep on the ground anyway) it has to do with tricking girls into going out into the countryside at night(wink wink nudge nudge) fried green “toematters” are a little gift from god for man or woman…i mean if eating them is girly put me in a skirt..slap my fanny..and call me sally…as far as ya vs. ll ya? some people get ya mixed up with yuh…yuh want a dr pepper can sometimes turn into ya want a dr pepper and this leads to all ya want a dr pepper?
May 1st, 2006 at 9:26 am
Air conditioning? What the hell is that? Steel Magnolias and Fried Green Tomatoes? Who needs Hollywood liberals characterizing our Southern Women? The test is like having Carroll O’Connell (of Spaata, Mississippi fame) propagandizing about what Southerness is all about. Your Grandmother has a cook? From whence did this Yankeefied test originate? This country, plow boy did not have air conditioning or have need for it. The only reason we have today is to pacify Yankees, so they will survive! I did not have to see a bunch of liberals (including Dolly) pretend to be steel magnolias – I grew up with my great aunts and aunts supervising our upbringing. And I grew up eating fried green tomatoes – didn’t have to read some fictional characterization by a turncoat “southern liberal’ to understand southern life or watch what Hollywood thinks it was like to grow up in the South. My grandmother had a cook? Since when? My grandmother like my grandfather sit down and prayed with me, passed on oral history and hugged us everyday. She cooked until her last days – because she wanted to and thought it here duty.
Want to check you Dixie Royalty – read Robert E. Lee on duty, Donald Davidson on regionalism, Richard M. Weaver on the Southern Tradition….Not the Truman Capotes of the world….
May 1st, 2006 at 9:28 am
Air conditioning? What the hell is that? Steel Magnolias and Fried Green Tomatoes? Who needs Hollywood liberals characterizing our Southern Women? The test is like having Carroll O’Connell (of Spaata, Mississippi fame) propagandizing about what Southerness is all about. Your Grandmother has a cook? From whence did this Yankeefied test originate? This country, plow boy did not have air conditioning or have need for it. The only reason we have today is to pacify Yankees, so they will survive! I did not have to see a bunch of liberals (including Dolly) pretend to be steel magnolias – I grew up with my great aunts and aunts supervising our upbringing. And I grew up eating fried green tomatoes – didn’t have to read some fictional characterization by a turncoat “southern liberal’ to understand southern life or watch what Hollywood thinks it was like to grow up in the South. My grandmother had a cook? Since when? My grandmother like my grandfather sit down and prayed with me, passed on oral history and hugged us everyday. She cooked until her last days – because she wanted to and thought it her duty.
Want to check you Dixie Royalty – read Robert E. Lee on duty, Donald Davidson on regionalism, Richard M. Weaver on the Southern Tradition….Not the Truman Capotes of the world….
May 1st, 2006 at 9:56 am
hey Souther Agrarian, did you at least have a water cooler? i cant recall what they called them …swamp boxes or something like that…i think most people in the shouth didnt use them much because they made so much mold but if it was all you had other than a screen door and a fan you did not mind. and your right everyone knows that any true southern woman would never be able to let another woman cook in her house without standing over her telling her what to do and in the end just kicking her out of the way lol
May 1st, 2006 at 10:08 am
Amen! My mother is 78 and she kicks us all out.
We had an old silver water cooler we filled with ice and homemade ice cream - the best ice cream. Salting down the ice and turning that handle to make the best ice cream in the world - withou electricity! Without it being processed! I still have a screen door and let God cool by house naturally, if the troops are fighting for my freedom in 120 degree temps, I can do without air conditioning….
May 1st, 2006 at 10:55 am
Yeah, that quiz drifts in and out of focus.
I got 68%. In the ballpark, a bit high.
My idiolect does not include “y’all,” but I’ve offered the same defense of “y’all” that the quiz writer does — viz., it enriches modern English with a 2d person plural pronoun.
Then again, I’m a Midwesterner, so this similarity may not argue well for the quiz writer’s Southern bona fides.
Bunch of my family grew up in Texas in the ’50s. No A/C. Kept cool in summer with a fan and a bucket of ice water. Slept on the floor.
PS: A bracing reply, Southern Agrarian:
Your Grandmother has a cook? From whence did this Yankeefied test originate? This country, plow boy did not have air conditioning or have need for it. The only reason we have today is to pacify Yankees, so they will survive! I did not have to see a bunch of liberals (including Dolly) pretend to be steel magnolias – I grew up with my great aunts and aunts supervising our upbringing…. Want to check your Dixie Royalty – read Robert E. Lee on duty, Donald Davidson on regionalism, Richard M. Weaver on the Southern Tradition….Not the Truman Capotes of the world…
May 1st, 2006 at 11:14 am
Let me correct something, “The test is like having Carroll O’Connell (of Spaata, Mississippi fame) propagandizing about what Southerness is all about.”
Actually it was the psuedo communist Carroll O’CONNOR - of Stereotyping fame - caricature of a working class, conservative white guy - Archie Bunker. Another Hollywood type trying to tell us how we are seen to the world…. turn off the TV, cancel you subscriptions and READ YOUR BIBLE!