[SuzyCreamcheese]

I have to go kill myself now...... 58% Dixie. But that's because there weren't real options there like tonic for soft drink and spucky for a long sandwich.

The Cheese

 

[dh girlie]

What's a 'carpet bagger?'

 

[=[Stinky]=]

What's a 'carpet bagger?'

Generaly someone from New England, or the upper East Coast

 

[Jr_Bullit]

45% Yank - Jes barely there

I think it depends on who I'm talking to though...I have a bad habit of mimicking whomever it is I'm talking to Got that from me mumsie poo...

 

[Sherpa]

68% Dixie boys. Born in Jersey and been carpetbagging ever since.

Carpetbagger - A Northern who moved South to bank on the south poor economy after the Civil War

 

[Repack]

52% Dixie. I guess thats expected of someone who has a mutual fund protfolio but also enjoys NASCAR and bass fishing.

 

[Sir Happypants]

I think the way word spreads with media and communicatio nowadays the dialects are becoming extinct

 

[Repack]

What's a 'carpet bagger?'

Not sure, but I think the term originated with the lawyer types who came into the South after the war of Northern Agression and loan-sharked the locals out of everything. Their briefcases looked like Oriental rugs.