Author Topic: Are you a Yankee or Rebel? (Read 7426 times)

TribReady · « **Reply #60 on:** March 16, 2010, 03:53:32 PM »

Quote from: scootrd on March 16, 2010, 03:28:55 PM

Quote from: Graybeard on March 16, 2010, 12:10:59 PM
Do you realize that the term "red neck" is actually a YANKEE term and the originals were in fact yankees? The term came from the red bandanas worn around the necks of a bunch of mine workers who were protesting. I seem to recall in PA.

I believe you are referring to The Battle of Blair Mountain in the 1920's , when West Va. miners squared off with mine owners over unionizing. However this not where the term orginated from. The word was used much earlier in history to describe the field laborers.

That's what I always believed-that it started as a term for field workers/farmers. Go sit on a tractor, or riding lawn mower in my case

, and you'll learn where the term comes from after a few hours

skarke · « **Reply #61 on:** March 16, 2010, 05:50:05 PM »

tribready,

congrats on your 1000th post

some of them even make sense

Just kidding.

Glanceblamm · « **Reply #62 on:** March 16, 2010, 06:17:10 PM »

Got a (50% Dixie barely in yankeedom) on the results and I am from Central IL.

I will take that back, I am at the center of Illinois or at least I was until the liberals decided that half of lake Michigan counted as terra-firma within the last 10yrs. Lots of very small communitys here and down home livin.

GRIMJIM · « **Reply #63 on:** March 17, 2010, 04:53:28 PM »

Quote from: Graybeard on March 16, 2010, 12:10:59 PM

Quote from: GRIMJIM on March 16, 2010, 04:31:16 AM
30% dixie.

I may have been born a Yankee but my southern hunting friends made me an honorary redneck.

Do you realize that the term "red neck" is actually a YANKEE term and the originals were in fact yankees? The term came from the red bandanas worn around the necks of a bunch of mine workers who were protesting. I seem to recall in PA.

that's very interesting. A part of history I was unfamiliar with.

30-30man · « **Reply #64 on:** March 17, 2010, 05:31:48 PM »

100% Southerner here. I was born and raised in SC and have lived here along with my family our entire lives. I can trace my family from the Citadel in Charleston during the US Revolutionary War to the 2nd SC infantry in the US Civil War. I am a graduate of Clemson University and hold a masters degree in agronomy....I am not a stupid redneck and my family tree is not a pole...It actually has branches.

williamlayton · « **Reply #65 on:** March 20, 2010, 10:40:16 AM »

Texan without need of a test. You other boys can only wish.
Blessings

garbhead · « **Reply #66 on:** March 20, 2010, 02:57:51 PM »

I scored 50% Dixie.....Is that the same as 50% Yankee?

Dee · « **Reply #67 on:** March 20, 2010, 03:06:05 PM »

Quote from: williamlayton on March 20, 2010, 10:40:16 AM

Texan without need of a test. You other boys can only wish.
Blessings

I wish I had said that, instead of takin the damn test.

ironglow · « **Reply #68 on:** March 20, 2010, 03:10:44 PM »

Test had too many inconclusives..

  For instance..yard sale, rummage sale, garage sale or lawn sale...That depends upon where it is being held !

  Or..Sneakers, running shoes, tennis or gym shoes...That depends upon how you're using them.

   Pajamas doesn't really fit any of the choices.

And the term for soda, pop, tonic etc..where's the good old Texas term.."cold drink" ?

   ... There are several such, which can easily skew the test..

Dee · « **Reply #69 on:** March 20, 2010, 03:56:02 PM »

It's not a "cold drink", it's a "cole Drank".

P.A. Myers · « **Reply #70 on:** March 20, 2010, 04:34:04 PM »

That test said I was 89% Canadian, eh?

It is not how you speak, its how you feel. Rebels are everywhere there is freedom.

God bless the Confederacy!

Graybeard · « **Reply #71 on:** March 21, 2010, 12:08:00 AM »

Silly tests such as this one no doubt is merely measure what the perceptions of the person putting it together are of people. What do I care of what they think I should be or do or how I should answer?

I know what I am and don't need a test to tell me that. I'm southern born and bred in Alabama. I've traveled around to quite a few other states and some few of them I liked rather well for a visit but am not sure I'd have wanted to stay there as a home. Some I think I might would like to live there but most I was only too happy to see the visit end so I could return home.

I have lived in TN as a young child far too young to know if I'd have liked it or not but since we lived in Memphis inside the city I'm pretty sure I'd not have liked it if I had been older. I have lived in FL as well in Haines City again inside city limits and wasn't too fond of that. At the time I was 13 and made the best of it but sure never came to like it well enough to want to return.

There are places in TN I could enjoy living and same for KY both are nice southern states with some fine places to live. I like some things about OK but I don't think I'd like the open prairie all that well as I like trees.

Texas I think I could learn to enjoy living in if I could own enough land of my own to do my hunting and shooting on. Those dang leases and pay to hunt costs are way beyond my limited income however. I do love the Hill Country and sure would like to have a few thousand acres there to settle down on.

Some parts of AR I've seen make me think it would be a nice place to live especially in the Osarks but I've not spent enough time there to know if I'd want to live there.

As I said in my first post I'm not really a rebel tho my whole life I have been kinda rebelious I suppose but I am southern and perhaps even Confederate southern thru and thru. I don't think there is a yankee state that could cause me to want to live there. Now iffen 90% of the liberal folks living there were gone that might could change.

Dee · « **Reply #72 on:** March 21, 2010, 02:36:39 AM »

GB's not a REB, but there's not a single northern state he'd live in.

ironglow · « **Reply #73 on:** March 21, 2010, 03:06:53 AM »

Something tells me if the present administration passed this "demon-pass" bill and starts forcing other Marxist ideas upon formerly free Americans..we may suddenly have a lot more rebels, regardless of the geographical location..

Jackruff;
Just what I was saying earlier...is it time for 1775 all over again ?

Dee · « **Reply #74 on:** March 21, 2010, 05:04:54 AM »

I like the idea that the IRS will be running the show, and enforcing the insurance law. Their so fair how could anything possibly go wrong?

lakota · « **Reply #75 on:** March 21, 2010, 05:21:16 AM »

45% Dixie. Born and raised in Ohio by one parent of West Virginia heritage and one parent of Western Pennsylvania Heritage

jackruff · « **Reply #76 on:** March 21, 2010, 03:20:23 PM »

I've long wondered why my name is in the South. My great grandfather ran away from his home in Ohio as a teenager and ended up in Mississippi. He joined the 1st Mississippi Infantry in 1861 and surrendered at Fort Donelson and again at Port Hudson, being exchanged both times. Ironically he was finally captured at Franklin, Tennessee in 1864 after being wounded by an Ohio cannonball during the greatest infantry charge in the history of warfare. (It dwarfed Pickett's charge.) He finished the war at Camp Chase Prison in Columbus, Ohio. He walked home to Mississippi. Why would a native Ohioan do all that? I wish I could know! We need to remember that the original rebels in this country were New England yankees. We call them patriots now, but the British and the Americans who were loyal to their government called them rebels, because they were. Without their rebellion we would not be free.

GRIMJIM · « **Reply #77 on:** March 22, 2010, 12:48:42 PM »

That's the strange thing...If you lose it's an uprising, but if you win it's a revolution.

Ethan · « **Reply #78 on:** March 22, 2010, 05:16:04 PM »

???what happend to my score I got 100%

I live in PA

AtlLaw · « **Reply #79 on:** March 22, 2010, 05:39:09 PM »

You a SPY boy!

GRIMJIM · « **Reply #80 on:** March 23, 2010, 08:26:10 AM »

Your first mission for us should you choose to accept it................Find out exactly what chitterlings are and why do they eat them.

ironglow · « **Reply #81 on:** March 23, 2010, 09:06:45 AM »

  Grim;
   I guess the folks who traditionally ate chitterlings didn't have any real choice if they were to get any meat at all. They did not "live high on the hog", which brings another history note..
  Where did the phrase "live high on the hog" come from ? You just have to visualize the construction of the hog. The poorer folks lived low on the hog..pigs feet, hocks, fat belly and perhaps chitterlings. The more affluent lived "high on the hog",..hams, shoulders, chops etc.

Datil · « **Reply #82 on:** March 23, 2010, 05:47:42 PM »

Some of ancesters came st to ga from england & Swist er land
But I got Yankee blood a Great grand father came Pa.Married texas gal
What does that make me Datil

squirrellluck · « **Reply #83 on:** March 23, 2010, 06:12:39 PM »

A rebel that bears watching

mcwoodduck · « **Reply #84 on:** March 24, 2010, 09:00:26 AM »

Quote from: Dee on March 21, 2010, 05:04:54 AM

I like the idea that the IRS will be running the show, and enforcing the insurance law. Their so fair how could anything possibly go wrong?

No Kidding,
I once had them tell me I owed them $1,000 and with penelties and interest I owed them $1,950. I proved to them I never owed the $1,000 in taxes and they went after me for the Interest and penelties on the tax I never owed.
This is gonna be good, I can't wait to hear all the horror stories.

kyelkhunter3006 · « **Reply #85 on:** March 25, 2010, 03:51:53 PM »

47% "barely a yankee" says the test, but southerner at heart. I'd move south in a HEARTBEAT. But the wife ain't going to move anywhere, sooo....

I'm just south of Cincinnati, but I'll tell you, once you get below Lexington, KY it's a different world. People are so much more polite, nice, and laid back, it's unreal.

Dad's family was born and raised in KY, but mom's family came from England (her dad and gandpa) and South Africa (her parents, uncles, and grandparents, herself and brothers). I'm sure that some of my English/SA upbringing skewed the test a bit. But South Africa is still the SOUTH.

kctibs · « **Reply #86 on:** March 25, 2010, 05:56:47 PM »

50% Dixie. Barely in Yankeedom. This is how I scored I am in Southern Colorado.

highwayman · « **Reply #87 on:** April 02, 2010, 07:18:10 PM »

93% southern as a good louisiana boy should be! rebel yell baby!!!!!!

Zulu · « **Reply #88 on:** April 03, 2010, 02:26:34 PM »

kyelkhunter3006,
You are right! It is a different world in the South. People are different. Manners matter. I think it is all in your upbringing.
Zulu

Bob Riebe · « **Reply #89 on:** April 14, 2010, 06:58:19 AM »

30 percent Rebel, surprised at that much raised in Minn.