Submitted by Lt. Porter on

Check this out! I scored 49% Yankee (BLAH!!) Yankee by birth, Confederate by choice!

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YanKEE

I scored 33% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.

Pvt/Lt Craig Young
3rd Maine, Company A
29th Georgia/7th Maine
Lambh Deargh Erin Abu!
Most importantly we are free. Free in thought, body, and soul.
It is no longer the blood, but the spirit that makes us what we are.
We are Celts!

Pvt Craig Young ./. Dum tempus habemus, operemur bonum While we have the time, let us do good 3rd Maine, Dirigo Base Ball Club, & 3rd Maine Tobogganeers

no suprise

46% - Yankee. One branch of my family has been in the new england area for over 300 years so I kind of saw that coming...

Keep taking your blue mass!!
Asst. Surg. SD Scroggins

Keep taking your blue mass!! Asst. Surg. SD Scroggins

Okay

I was a bit skeptical about how this was going to turn out but it was fairly accurate in my case to some degree. 60% Dixie, just below the Mason Dixon Line. I actually lived on or just a bit above the line but "whose" complaining?

Will

Too Much Time In Maine

only 98% Rebel, guess I've had too much Maine seep thru the cracks

"Never Apologize, It's a sign of weakness!
Cpt. Nathan Brittles

Pvt. Steve Henry
Co. A, 3rd Maine Volunteer Infantry
"Bath City Greys

illegitimi non carborundum Pvt. Steve Henry Co. A, 3rd Maine Volunteer Infantry "Bath City Greys"

76% Dixie

Must be my Midwestern roots, diluted by exposure to Maine. I need to contact CW Doc to procure something to purge the remaining 24% of the contaminants from my body....

44% Yankee

Although there were a lot of stuff in there that I don't say period.
Like:
What do you call the second meal of the day? I always called it "Dinner" as in: Breakfast, Dinner, Supper.
We used to call the night before Halloween "Beggers Night"
What happened to the bubbly beverage called a "Tonic"?
We also call that Sandwich an "Italian"

Guess that just makes me sust plain aaaawd!

"Hawks and Eagles fly like Doves"

2nd Lt Eric R. Reeder
United States Army
Corps of Topographic Engineers

2nd Lt Eric R. Reeder United States Army Corps of Topographic Engineers "Hawks and Eagles fly like Doves"

I've got just the thing!!

Powdered jalap root, causes "copious amounts of liquid stool and vomiting". It was the strongest purgative known to the CW surgeon I believe. That should get rid of the contaminents and anything else as well!!!
You live just up the road, stop in sometime for a cup of coffee and some jalap root!!

Keep taking your blue mass!!
Asst. Surg. SD Scroggins

Keep taking your blue mass!! Asst. Surg. SD Scroggins

Guess I'm a match for the Captain

57% Dixie. Right on the Mason/Dixon line. Which figures since I'm from Southwestern PA. Neat test Jason.
~Miss Patti

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind~Dr. Seuss

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind~Dr. Seuss

52% Dixie

Doesnt suprise me as I lived for 14years of my formative life in Ga. Married a southern girl and often use several dielect/colliquisms in everyday speech, I often refer to local streams as Creeks, and at stop lights I ask passengers who can see better than I if "Ive got it" or say if Im a passenger "you got it"
I did score a big one yankee with the response to the sandwich question...Hero, though I still refer to my yard as a door yard. but also for th south I tend to say paved road insted of tared road...because roads cant get tired....IO tend to say PEE can not Pah cahn and get in trouble from northerners and southeners alike... probally the other one that tipped the scales in the dixie direction is the drive up liquor store question I knew what that they existed having lived in the south...but i dont remember if they had a name other than package store, but there were none on the list so I said what it could have been close to...as a teen growing up in the south the drive in of choice was known as shotguns....until he was closed selling to minors....Sad day in Mcduffie county, ga. but ive got quite a few answers that hail from the Great lakes region, thus the homoginazation of the us continues......
Seamus

"it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifing......nothing"
MacBeth

PRIMA NOCTA

Purgative

Doc,

You forgot CROTON OIL guaranteed to make you erupt at both ends inside of 10 minutes. Also causes nasty pustules on any exposed skin it contacts. Ill stick to blue mass

"Never Apologize, It's a sign of weakness!
Cpt. Nathan Brittles

Pvt. Steve Henry
Co. A, 3rd Maine Volunteer Infantry
"Bath City Greys

illegitimi non carborundum Pvt. Steve Henry Co. A, 3rd Maine Volunteer Infantry "Bath City Greys"

Purgative

Doc,

You forgot CROTON OIL guaranteed to make you erupt at both ends inside of 10 minutes. Also causes nasty pustules on any exposed skin it contacts. Ill stick to blue mass

"Never Apologize, It's a sign of weakness!
Cpt. Nathan Brittles

Pvt. Steve Henry
Co. A, 3rd Maine Volunteer Infantry
"Bath City Greys

illegitimi non carborundum Pvt. Steve Henry Co. A, 3rd Maine Volunteer Infantry "Bath City Greys"

Yankee or Rebel

Well Ya'all I tested 100%Dixie lolol at the end they asked if Robert E. Lee was my grandfather lolol had to laugh because every one knows in the South the a grandfather is called your GrandPaw or PawPaw. And there are only 3 "cokes" in the South DP coke and MD(mountain dew) not Mad Dawg(dog) and as far as sandwich well it is hands down "dawgs on a stick" or corn dawgs. And in the South when some one is referred to as your Aunt or your Uncle their family may have been slaves with your family along time ago. And as far as crawdads we call them thar things good eats. My speech could not be more screwed up 21 years in the North 30 years in Dixie. Hawks and Eagles Fly Like Doves CopperHeadAnnie's

From Away

Lt. Porter,

As much as I have been told here in the Great White North, I am always going to be "from away". You might want desperately to become something that is only a birthright, You are a Yankee. Born a Yankee and will slip this mortal coil a Yankee. Blood and Soil is what matters.
A great geezer once quoted me "If your cat had kittens in the oven, it wouldn't make them biscuits would it?" A Southern Heritage should not be treated like an Elvis impersonation. One cannot CHOOSE to be Confederate. My Great-Grandmother was born March 1865 so i have blood kin who actually were Confederate. Not just Southern like I am (Alabama) but CONFEDERATE.

"Never Apologize, It's a sign of weakness!
Cpt. Nathan Brittles

Pvt. Steve Henry
Co. A, 3rd Maine Volunteer Infantry
"Bath City Greys

illegitimi non carborundum Pvt. Steve Henry Co. A, 3rd Maine Volunteer Infantry "Bath City Greys"

Ever since I met Copper Head

Ever since I met Copper Head Anne, I knew I met my match. And here is to prove it. 95% (Dixie). Is General Lee your grandfather?

She scored 5% higher rebel than me!

"Let us but will it, and we are free." -President Jefferson Davis

It took some thought

Steve,
I agree with the analogy of Confederate impersonators with Elvis impersonators. I even agree with the strong bonds with the home state soil. I wonder however, if descendants from Copperheads can claim the honor to be called Confederates? Then there are the decendants claiming to be Confederates (Rebels)of thousands of Southern yankee's who betrayed their home states to fight with the Union. Point here taken, it is not enough to be southern to be Confederate.

The jest of the view, if I understand correctly, is that somebody claiming to be Confederate with out bloodlines is the same as somebody claiming to Japanese (or any other nationality) who has no family connection to Japan. It becomes sort of a fantasty role at that point and leans towards dishonoring our heritage.

Can the reverse be true if I were to claim to be a yankee, because I was born in the North, or is this just generally acceptable? I personally feel it should matter but can't justify that it does.

An interesting perspective on the subject.

Will

Well there goes the Fun................

Sort of like the old joke...."im not a Doctor, but I play one on TV..."
I come from the perspective of having lived in the two places and perfer one more than the other. So I lived in Ga, for 14 years and From day one I was reminded I was a Damn Yankee, at 14 first day of school or there abouts I was circled by a group of black kids who introduced themselves as the maddogs, and shaking my hand they were checking to see if the white was rubbing off, aparently according to my wife, I was the whitest white boy at Thomson hs, then in the next day or so having taken up with a kid who lived closer to the farm I was introduced to his friends an in the first minute he said..."Maine, so your a Yankee, you know your grandpappy and my grandpappy fought?" but by this time I had had enough....
"yeah but who won?" was my reply, needless to say I didnt have many friends. But I lived in a Farm community, not the glass towered Atlanta.
Sterotype Yankee
Either Catholic or a jew, might be Italian and if so just fell off the boat two generations ago. drinks alot and is most likely an atheist , liberal democrat... thinks french food is the greatist thing.
Now there are other things that happened in my life down there that I wont go into detail as i have neither the time nor the space...
But those things should have me Hating the South and all its residents.. but I dont, I actually love several things about southern food and culture nd the land itself, I just have learned in my old age to seperate the A*****es from the rest of society
Heritage is a great thing, a person who doesnt know his history is like a leaf that doesnt know its part of a tree, but you cant wrap yourself in the past so tightly that you lose circulation to the brain, im Scot-Irish,sweed,Mohawk,english. so I guess im at war with myself...When the IRA was first formed it was good, fighting for independance, now it has delvolved into a buch of hooligans, the message is the same but the actions are different, with my Irish background shouldnt I send em some money? nope......I have an ancestor who fought in the CW with Vermont....I should stop being a confederate because It dishonors his memory and what he fought for....For all I know he was a out of work scot who needed a job.
Its about perspective, the honor and glory, verses the reality,
Perception of what is and isnt...
Kittens and biscuits, perfect.
I understand the perception of Confederates because I live in Maine, where southern new england who has more money than many of us has come and bought and built and pushed up the Tax burden and then after moving up to this lovely vacation land decide that it is lovely but needs to be more like .........(mass, conn,ny..etc)
Maine people have so much in common with southerners its really scary, and thats why im a confederate...plus the uniforms are cooler theres a certain amount of romance in the Cause and we need more confederates as it upsets the balence at taticals....
So phlosophising aside,
lets not take things too seriously...
Drink up!
Seamus

"it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifing......nothing"
MacBeth

PRIMA NOCTA

Here, Here!

I agree Sir, I noticed the error of my statement as soon as I realize that i have been galvanizing for 15 years.
Truth be known, More of my kin fought with Thomas in the Army of The Cumberland coming from East Tennessee. Although born of Southern Heritage, they wore the blue suit and therefore were Yankees to my Condederate Kin that may have had them in their sights at Chickamauga.
We have to bear in mind both sides were AMERICANS
"Never Apologize, It's a sign of weakness!
Cpt. Nathan Brittles

Pvt. Steve Henry
Co. A, 3rd Maine Volunteer Infantry
"Bath City Greys

illegitimi non carborundum Pvt. Steve Henry Co. A, 3rd Maine Volunteer Infantry "Bath City Greys"

Good points

Steve you had some good and interesting points. Sorry to hear all about the Blue problem. Just kidding.lol I had been with the 20th Maine since it founded in 1984. It was hard to get use to, now I don't really think about it when putting on the uniform. Wearing of the grey is a bit more emotional and preferred. I don't remember harboring true ill feelings towards the Federals for the deaths of several ggg uncles nor the death of ggggrandpa from illness in Tennessee. Essentially most marched off to war according to their convictions. It is was a most tragic war and one that still lingers with us to some degree today.

The interesting thing about this test, is that it shows us just how acculturated we have become. I would dare wonder if those in the middle (50%) are the most acculturated while those on the ends are regressive in their ways. This is neither good or bad but a curiousity.

Will

Yankee or Rebel

Well 3 of my ggg uncles where on Little Round Top with the 20th Maine Ben lost his leg. My mother can still remember Mr Ben when she was a young lady. My fathers side skiped the British navy in SC in the revolution. His folks settled in Kentucky and Ohio. Well my ancestor on his side owned the furnaces and the forge at what is now called Land Between the Lakes in Kentucky on the Tennessee line. Well SHE yes it was a lady that owned the property (femme sole) wore black 4 times for husbands of hers and family lore has it she was a memeber of the Sons of Liberty. So does that make me a Rebel or a Yankee? Hummmmmm that makes me the ancestor of a British traitor and the ancestor of an enemy of the Union and a ancestor to a hero of the Union. Well I would say at my best guest this all makes me an American. What makes me a Rebel is I believe in the right for any state to leave an unfair Union and I will to the day I die. For Gods sake that is the freedom this country was founded on. My nation is under God I will pray for every one who does not see that our forfathers were guided by God. Well I am off the band wagon on this one. Zac please get the spell check out for me and check my spelling. I have wool waiting on me I have to make a few waistcoats that are heading to a place called Cowpens hear there is about to be a battle there with the Brits. Hawks and Eagles Fly Like Doves CopperHeadAnnie

Language it seems is as

Language it seems is as facinating a subject as firearms, and might posses more greater meaning to our lives, it goes to the stedy homoginazation of America, why when you get off an interstate exit in Maine or Ga, you will find an olive garden, mcdonalds, outback and a best western its only when you look at the demographic makeup of those around you, you may suspect you know where you are and then they open up their mouths and its confirmed, though if you go into a 7-11 you may believe you might be in pakistan...but that is becoming less and less in some areas, as we are a very mobile society and mainstream slang comes into the every day speech of more and more people....Bling, mad crazy, my bad, yo, dude and not only here but we are amercianizing the world, I remember when the uk dressed different and seemed to act a little different kids in school uniforms.....now except for the accent and the driving on the other side of the road and the architecture it might as well be cleavland.
I often watch BBCAmerica and its a littel disturbing when I have to turn on the subtitles so I know what they are saying......
Seamus
(Father Ted is the Man)

"it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifing......nothing"
MacBeth

PRIMA NOCTA

Losing Cultural Boundaries

Seamus,

I was surprised to find a Cracker Barrel in Mass. I had to inform them REAL cornbread does not have sugar in it. I thought i got a piece of pound cake with my turnip greens! ANd they have to be told grits have no singular form

"Never Apologize, It's a sign of weakness!
Cpt. Nathan Brittles

Pvt. Steve Henry
Co. A, 3rd Maine Volunteer Infantry
"Bath City Greys

illegitimi non carborundum Pvt. Steve Henry Co. A, 3rd Maine Volunteer Infantry "Bath City Greys"

Yankee (25%)

No surprise here. New England almost all my life; descended from 16th CT veteran; married to Mainer who may be descended from a few 20th ME vets (still working on that research...)

Best to all,

Art

Mmmmm... Cornbread...

I considar myself very fortunate (though too young at the time to realize it) for those 6 years stationed down in the South. It also attributes to the fact that I know what a Bru Thru is and fell in love with Biscuits and Gravy. My freind Chris and his wife were from Albany, Georgia and I loved her cooking. I went home with them one time and went to MawMaw's and PawPaw's to eat and that was good eatin'. Though Paw Paw said "there you go, bringin' home another one of them damn Yankees..." But it was all in fun and their hospitality was great.

Cpl Marc Averill
29thGA

My wife frys porkchops in

My wife frys porkchops in Lard, bacon greese if we have it, when I first was married she had a dedicated bacon greese can....
I almost think theres a Cracker barrel in Portland now.....
But you still cant get real sweet tea. Good Fried chicken is almost an impossibility.
Seamus

"it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifing......nothing"
MacBeth

PRIMA NOCTA