question for people from the south

[Bandit3 the Worker]

is there a variation with the type of accents? For some reason it seems that its kind of like Britain in that it is rooted in class.

You sort of have the accent that I'm assuming originated in the aristocrat/planter society that I would compare to something like in "Gone With the Wind". It seems that this is more common in the deep south and tidewater area.

Then there's sort of a more "raw" accent found in the backcountry like in TN, AR, OK, TX etc. Although there is some overlap with the first one, it seems to be of the "finger/fanger and pen/pin" type of accent.

The first accent is Boss Hogg. The second accent is Rosco.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

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.

The Media has a strong disgust against people with Midwestern accents, for some reason.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

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.

The Media has a strong disgust against people with Midwestern accents, for some reason.

The media must really hate itself, then.

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A real Midwestern accent is nothing like that ValSpeak most newscasters today use.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Newscasters usually say "nyoo" instead of "noo."

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Also, newscasters never use "bring/brang/brung."

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Both Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather were from Houston.  So a Houston accent is really like RP for the USA.

I always thought of Dan Rather as having sort of a Southern accent - sort of like the guy from the old TV Guide commercials from the '70s. Actually the TV Guide guy had more of a Southern accent than Rather did.