question for people from the south

[Brittain33]

My impression is that accents are slowly fading in both Britain and the US. That is what my ear tells when I compare what I heard as a young man, versus now, 40 years later.

True - although I read an interesting article a few months ago, I can't find now, that claims that the nasal midwestern accent with a certain vowel shift associated with Chicago and Wisconsin is spreading and getting more prominent. That would be an exception, I would think.