"Yankee" and "Dixie" dialects

[Beverly Flanigan]

At 11:50 AM 3/3/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>At 7:56 AM -0500 3/3/04, Orin Hargraves wrote:
>>Here's a link to a quiz that purports to tell you where yours belongs, based
>>on the "Harvard Computer Society Dialect Survey." Pretty good fun, even
>>if not
>>totally scientific:
>>
>>http://www.chuckchamblee.com/dom/fun/yankee_dixie_quiz.htm
>>
>>Orin Hargraves
>>(49% yankee)
>
>I'm skeptical.
>Larry Horn
>("54% dixie"--
>grew up in NYC, lived on Long Island and in California, Wisconsin,
>and New England)

Yes, it's pretty simplistic, as if the whole country speaks either New
England or Deep South!  The plural 'you' question doesn't even include "you
guys" or just plain "you."  And is pron. of "pajamas" a regional issue or a
style/register one?  The Harvard survey at least produced maps of variant
forms; this spinoff is just black or white (but doesn't account for blacks
at all).