"Yankee" and "Dixie" dialects

[FRITZ JUENGLING]

Well, I'm only 53% dixie altho the time I have spent in Dixie could be measured in hours (and that includes several trips to El Paso, Texas.
One problem with the test is that there are several questions for which I would choose none of the above, but that was not an option.  For example, I had never called the long road next to a freeway anything (It never occured to me that it should be called anything), nor had I ever heard anyone call it anything until I lived in Minnesota.  (It does seem to me that the concept seemed more important to Minnesotans than Oregonians--there isn't always a long road next to the freeways here. Probably too many trees and rivers here)
Fritz Juengling

>>> laurence.horn at YALE.EDU 03/03/04 08:50AM >>>
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)