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Originally Posted by jyl
I was born in NYC and have always moved on the coasts or out of the country (I guess there were a couple years in IL but I was a toddler). I have never met anyone who spoke Southern. I don’t know that I could understand them. It’s like when I’m in Quebec and speak French with a Canadian - after a couple minutes, I can’t understand them, even though I speak French the France way.
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I have been in the US South off and on most of my life and it is clear that most "Southern" accents are regional and even local, just like north of the Mason/Dixon Line. The kids in my neighborhood pride themselves on speaking with no accent, and it is true, no accent unless they want to use it, same for Black or White kids
However, when you get up in the hills or back in the really rural areas you get the real deal, which is the accents from long ago. We were just in the area of NC in the middle just south of the TN border ( Rt 18). (driving our old 993, we were totally lost, lost the GPS no cell reception, etc and just pressed on. Of course we had no paper maps, totally screwed, lost We ended up in W. Jefferson,NC, got burgers at Hardee's (pretty good) with 4 NC State Police Troopers (laughed about the loss of cell reception -_they have their own system- haha) (they were there for the Eclipse crowds).