Is the Southern Accent Disappearing? | Otherwords 

I was just about to say...

GREENBOW ALLA BAMA!

Well not if women like Reese Witherspoon, Lainey Wilson, & Kacey Musgraves have anything to do with it. 😊

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My grandmother is from Texas but her accent is more Virginian.

Greenbow, Alabama

yep. He's only there to visit Jenny too.

In an interview, Tom hanks said he copied the child actor’s accent for grown-up Forrest, who told him he talks like his daddy does. Michael Conner Humphreys is from Independence, Mississippi so he has a southern accent.

And that specific accent was developed by Hanks imitating the speech patterns of the child actor playing young Forrest, who was from Mississippi.

@@KristenRowenPliske a Southern accent but not a Georgia accent. There isn't just one Southern accent. Our accents vary significantly by state and even county. Plus the character also had delayed speech due to his disability, which isn't related to regional accents at all.

Completely agree! I only talk in a drawl around older people

Please… keep this accent. It’s so awesome.

It's an unconscious response at this point: I add about one "a" syllable for every relative over fifty to my "Hey!"

Yup. Im only southern with people who have a stronger accent than me. Anyone else just gets the leveled accent.

🤣@@B2WM

I use it when I don't want to offend by sounding too educated.

Try it in New York City. It works a treat.

@@TheSuzberryLos Angels too!

Florida is in the southern part of the country but it's hardly Southern.

That is hilarious

This is also a very different thing from Asheville NC. I still think Southern is that accent that exists in the WVA/VA/TN mountain region.

@@grif0716 I feel like Southern gets more that way as you move South. The WVA/VA/TN mountain accent is Southern but also Mountain and like the lady says its all in the vowel mix. The Walton's series was based on both but in the Christmas pilot that sold the show Mama Walton has a(n attempt at a) Southern accent but not Mountain. Walton's Christmas Special: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-umEEnFtmV0I.html As for Southern, the Mason-Dixon line moves south every year..., currently somewhere in ever-expanding NOVA Northern Virginia where the majority doesn't really have a Southern accent, but the rest of Virginia mostly does.

I'd say the biggest change in the south is the loss of non-rhotic dialects. Almost no one talks like Jimmy Carter any more. As for Austin, a lot of people moving there adopt the Hill Country twang, even Californians. I'm glad to say the Houston chop is still alive thanks to it still surviving in the local AAVE. But all big cities in the south are almost alike. Charlotte is rounder than Houston. Birmingham and Atlanta are in between.

@@skipperson4077 The Waltons: Anyone remember when George HW said, "I want the American family to be more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons"? Everyone pointed out that Homer has a good paying tech job that supports a family of five. The Waltons were mostly unemployed and their farm didn't earn enough to get ahead.

Even forty years ago the Savannah and Charleston accents were more completely a Tidewater accent, but it has been changed and dilated - largely by college students and new residents.

Having spent over twenty years in the Air Force I found that southern accents influenced my own accent to a certain extent. But I would also say that most southern accents weren't very thick either. It would seem to be another cultural mixing point.

Why yous dropping ur accents cuz of stereotypes like just ignore them

@@United-Nationsit’s hard to get by in some circles with a southern accent, people act like we’re stupid, ignorant, etc. so you might not get chosen in a class, not hired for a job, and people might not respect you as much

​@@logand488Damn that ain't right. There are plenty of intelligent people with southern accents who are engineers, coders, developers etc.

@@stevenachila6058 i couldn’t agree more!! i have a thick nash county NC accent lol but i’m finishing my degree in Japanese and anthropology!!! first in my family 😄 and im moving to japan to teach english in August, maybe my students will come out of class with southern accents lol

It really is the best word. I'm a Texan working with a bunch of New Yorkers, influencing them every day lol

English is my second language, and I like "y'all" because it's the closest thing English has to a plural "you". "Ye" is unfortunately too old fashion.

​@@junjunjamore7735Isn't it funny how that happens? Everything old is new again, eventually. Not that I'm complaining too much... English is already plenty hard enough without having to deal with stuffy honorifics or grammatical gender

It's honestly quite jarring to me. I live on the west coast and hearing people incorporate and use it, is so strange because there's no perceived accent. It just comes out flat. The same with the word "cheers." Growing up, we only heard these words from people or characters who did have the accompanying accent.

Southerners have perfected the contraction like "y'all'd'nt've" is a full sentence.

Same. I'm originally from Lewis County, which has a mix of both Appalachian and Deep South accents. One of my biggest tells is with contracted "s" verbs. I tend to pronounce "isn't" and "wasn't" closer to "idn't" and "wudn't", and I've never been able to get rid of that.

booo… Why change your accent for others?

Same with me when I was stationed in California when I joined the Marine Corps in the 80s after being born and raised in rural Louisiana. Like you, it only comes out when I’m fatigued.

@@IsaacMyers1 Path of least resistance. For the vast majority of people one encounters in life, the first impression will be the only one that's remembered. And some of these people sign my checks. To this day, I meet with managers who believe totally incorrect things about me, and I know it's because they stored an inaccurate memory of me. It's frustrating, but just how people are.

Same thing happened for me.

It’s just code switching which we all do. Southern accents and culture can’t just be studied. It’s a lived experience. And I disagree with the conclusions of the research and don’t believe it was extensive enough to come to those ends.

We intentionally got rid of our accents as quicky as possible after moving, due to pervasive anti-southern sentiment in the northeast. People kept assuming we were hateful and bigoted in every possible way, before they had even spoken to us, and they felt compelled to act on those assumptions.

George Lindsey AKA Goober once joked that he had wasted his money taking lessons to lose his Alabama accent so as not to be typecast-- once he played Goober, nobody wanted to hear him speaking with a less-Southern accent. Somehow the thought of Goober offstage (or on) sounding like Stephen Colbert (a native South Carolinian without the classic accent) doesn't quite sit well with me.

You know what's crazy is I feel the Southern accent is less negatively stereotyped now than it was 20 years ago, but that's just my experience.

My aunt did that very intentionally when she grew up. She was just a kid when she made that decision and now she can’t even do a southern accent.

So I guess the Texan thought were going to sound like a hoser from Medicine Hat & you thought the Texan was going to sound like a cowboy from Midland?

Eh? Whut? Eh? Whut? Eh? Whut?

Texan who lives abroad. My regional accent (beyond general American) is usually undetectable, but it can float in and out for specific situations or on particular words, one being the word "southern." Meanwhile, I noticed that my brother's accent (he still lives in Texas) has gotten more pronounced and is really distinct from mine.

Yeah, Southern accents always seem to be pegged to stupid, hick characters

I feel like part of it is also the ruralbus (like weebus or westernbus), where someone who idealizes a misunderstanding of small town or rural life and is also somewhat evil will move to a southern city and do things like drive an oversized car, be unwelcoming because of something inalterable and inoffensive like race/gender/sexuality/etc, be xenophobic, etc, giving southerners a bad rap. My parents both immigrated from outside of Texas, my mom from Louisiana and my dad from rural NY near the lakes. My mom is constantly going on about how “immigrants are illegally forcing their way in and killing people,” “fentanyl is here and really bad because of Mexican cartels,” and “the city is too cramped [we live in a city that has grass fields everywhere], oh no! A empty lot was replaced with buildings.” I feel like people who immigrated to Texas for those kinds of reasons are also the ones saying things like “don’t California my Texas,” even though such immigration was inevitable from somewhere eventually and the rise of housing price is more a result of Texas underpreparing rather than over immigration. (I’m from Texas for context btw, and I understand that immigration tends to be beneficial, the drug crisis is largely a result of a failure to properly distribute drug types like pain relief through official channels, the amount of overcrowding is based on amount of usable building spaces (in buildings) vs population (usually there’s just not enough buildings when spaces get overcrowded), and people immigrate illegally due to a lack of immigration resources which make it take longer than viable (investment in walls or whatever would be better spent enabling people to register legally instead of trying to install deterrents). I know a lot of other people from Texas who also understand those things, including those in rural areas. The crazy (bad) kind of person really ruins the reputation of southerners (plus the GOP/Republicans having gerrymandered control misrepresents what people actually want)

@@kawaiidere1023 I've never heard the term "ruralbus" before, but man does it fit...

@@kawaiidere1023 I mean, regardless of whether they come in legally or illegally large numbers of new residence, will necessarily drastically increase the need for housing, Texas is getting this from both ends because of people migrating from other states, and illegal migrants from South America, it is worth noting though that zoning laws in Texas are typically much Less restrictive than those in say California or New York. You are correct that immigration is generally good in an economic sense, but not universally so, countries like Canada, for instance, are now going through what is called an immigration trap, where they can’t afford to reduce the flow of new residence, but because of housing costs and lower productivity, they can also not afford to keep increasing migration levels to evermore historic highs. Mass migration is also not good for wages in fields that migrant laborers typically go into, because usually migrants are willing to work for less pay and benefits than native born residence, and due to the language barrier often times lack the ability to organize or push for increased labor rights. America historically compared to other nations has had a very liberal immigration policy, heck even Republicans 20 years ago, were supporting widespread amnesty, but the reason why this attitude has soured is both because the scale of migration, legal and illegal, has increased by an order of magnitude, and the fact that is no longer necessarily in the best interest of much of the nation. When we had vast largely unsettled tracks of land in the central and western parts of the country, and when huge pools of unskilled labor were required for manufacturing and the like, large scale migration was much more desirable, now the only ones it really benefits are property and business owners who can keep housing costs high and labor costs low Through subsidizing the labor pool. The argument is also often made that western countries need to subsidize are populations through mass migration, to avoid the consequences of declining birth rates, but one should be able to intuitively reject this argument, because of its temporary nature, and hopefully come to the conclusion that, addressing the problem of falling fertility rates in the long run Requires actual cultural and economic reforms, particularly on the local level, but I digress.

Here in the UK following US pop culture, US politics, US sports, movies & trends etc. We seem to hear the 'Southern Drawl' less often from celebrities like Matthew McConaughey & Lainey Wilson. We hear more east coast & west coast accents from celebrities like Taylor Swift & Jenna Ortega. Anyone know why that would be ? Just curious. 🤔🇬🇧🇺🇸

When I was staying in Taiwan I made friends with a fellow Southerner. We both talked in general American dialect but I noticed when he was on the phone with his family he'd get very southern, sounded like a different person. We talked after that and I slipped into my Southern Applachian and he into his Tennessean Southern. It became our way to talk to each other so no one else understood us.

I'm also from TN (mid-TN), and I ended up intentionally shedding my accent when I moved outside the state. I notice, though, that whenever I talk to family on the phone who still live there, my speech is affected for about 2 or 3 days after. It's amazing how much your surroundings can alter your accent.

Linguists have found that people tend to unconsciously mimic accents from the communities around them. So, accent adoption is usually not planned but happens for many folks anyway.

@@Tripps2564 It also depends upon the circle of people around you. If your work and/or social circle mostly includes people who are transplants, then you are less likely to be "affected" by the native local population.

Sling Blade is one of the most accurate pieces of media when it comes to Southern accents, because the cast is largely Southerners. Lucas Black even made a point of not losing his accent throughout his career.

There's been a murder in Savannah!

It makes me think of Foghorn Leghorn. "I do declare, that boy has gotten too big for his britches." 🐔

I think about Blair St Claire

@@popito8366 lol so true

Like molasses fallin' outta your mouth

Oh you’re living in Brazil? Nice I am Brazilian. In Brazil we have a similar thing when it comes to accents. Northeast Brazil has a very interesting accent that retained the original Portuguese colonizers and Afro-indigenous influences. Our accent is associated with poverty and lack of education. Not to mention that our people in this region is mostly people of color. But the Southeast Brazilian accent is the standard speech because São Paulo is the more affluent city in the country. They make fun of the northeast accent and just by our accent they judge us.

Reminded when I said Bless your little heart to a young woman I was in the process of making amends with but instead of opening up further she slammed the conversation to an end as she took it as derogatory and hasn’t spoken to me since. Wtf did I do wrong?

@@rachelmichaels2108they may have found it patronizing

@@rachelmichaels2108”bless your heart” or little heart, can sound very sarcastic and it’s usually used that way most of the time

@@sweetcozyloveNot where I’m from growing up in the Midwest. I thought it was a term of endearment not the damn opposite. Stupid language differences!

True, my granny used terms like "carried" meaning to take someone somewhere, not literally give them a piggyback ride. She also used terms like over yonder, icebox, commode, and britches (I still say britches til this day because of her), "whatca know no good" when she wanted to hear the latest gossip😆) I say more than one way to skin a cat because of my mama. Cattycorner etc. I remember when folks called it a coke machine instead of a drink machine and the drive thru lady asked what kind of coke would you like (this was still Atlanta in the 90s)...It's a beautiful language all by itself.

@@BabytalkATL4I’m a bit younger but the “what kind of coke do you want” reminded me of my early 2000s childhood. haven’t heard that in forever

Were they fixing to teach you those colloqualisms?

You can try using youse as a substitute for y'all, but I think very few people would understand it.

Can you imagine a young, college educated woman, TV host, academic, actress, Miss USA talking like a Redneck, Hillbilly or New York construction worker, or even some Valley Girl?

Most people tend to think that we're uneducated or bigoted when they hear us talking.

@@austinweaver5649 considering the history and ongoing current events I’d say it’s a warranted stereotype. In his I have a dream speech MLK specifically singled out Alabama and Mississippi as racist states. That was sixty years ago and not much has changed. And southern universities are known for their sports teams, not their academics. Roll Tide

@@user-xq7hg1ec9o it's still a stereotype. That's the problem, you can't tell just by our accent without actually knowing us

@@austinweaver5649 True. Naturally we all stereotype and generalize but it’s up to us to use our God given consciousness to allow people to prove themselves as an individual. We all have autonomy.

I’m Texan. Wife is Brooklyn.

Always safer to just not call people "names" (or epithets, maybe?) like that, so I never do.

​@@MatthewTheWanderer That's just another cultural aspect of language, like how people in the South say "sir" or "ma'am" way more than people in the North. To one group it's a sign of respect, to another it can sound patronizing or unnatural.

Best sci fi ever.

It was especially funny because the guy saying it was Martian.

@@StephBer1 Southern/Texan accents for the Martians is canon to the books. Texas was one of the places that set up early large scale colonization on Mars, so the accent carried over.

You definitely should try getting it back. I always hated when people, for one reason or another usually bullying, force away their accents. It's pretty stupid that we give accents bigoted meanings, like just because you have a Cali accent that means you're gay? Southern accent that means you're uneducated? Etc.

Half of what people call a Cajun accent is just a white Creole accent since whites from around the Bayou Teche sound much more differently than those from rural Lafayette parish

That’s not all NOLA people sound similar to New Yorkers. Some sound more Caribbean. I knew a lady who for years I thought was Haitian only to find out she was from NOLA. The way people say “baby” and “water”is usually a dead giveaway they are from there.

exactly! people prop up the southern aristocratic accent they see in old movies but that only represented the 1% of the south essentially.

@@lilacfields Nevertheless, I did hear softer southern accents more often back in the 70s. Now everything portrayed on TV as southern is a nasal twang.

I’m curious as to your thoughts on the Cajun accents (family of Dennis Quaid’s character) used in the movie The Big Easy? Were they specific to a particular area? I thought they were some of the most melodic, heart-warming accents I’ve ever heard.

She did better than anyone in the movies does. Not perfect, but better.

If you say Y'all in NJ you're gonna end up in a landfill.

@@TheMrPeteChannel Well, I have said "y'all" in New Jersey and I'm still here so....

@@TheMrPeteChannelI have seen RU-vidrs from NJ and NY saying y’all all the time.

​@@TheMrPeteChannelIf you're black you'll hear it a lot tbh, same in NY

I always avoided "y'all" etc. when outside of Texas to avoid embarrassment, but I remember being shocked in uni to hear people in other states using it freely.

It does though. I try my absolute hardest to not have a southern accent because I am ridiculed if someone picks up on it, and I do not associate with the stereotypes what so ever. I am not poorly educated, I am not racist, and I don't subscribe to the political right, so I avoid being falsely judged as such as much as possible. It sucks when you aren't accepted by your own people for your views nor by everyone else because of how you speak.

@@rich1051414 noo, don't lose your accent! i really believe that the southern accent is one of the most charming and cute accents in english. those who hear your accent and immediately stereotype you as a racist, a bigot or some second amendment-loving freak are the true bigots... because how are they gonna make such unfair generalizations and assumptions about you just from the manner in which you speak. :(

@@rich1051414 I got taught out of much of my southern accent like many of my generation who performed well academically, so that we weren't presumed to be uneducated and hinder our academic or professional progress. I hate that for a couple of reasons: It reinforced the negative stereotypes against southerners. It also reinforces the stereotype of a proper "educated" speech which continues a tradition that minority accents are also "uneducated." I've consciously tried to add it back.

There are a range of social-economic classes in all regions of America and, for that matter, in every nation in the world. There are refined, upper class Southern accents.

@@christophergraves6725pretty much

Did y'all learn the distinction between "y'all" and "all y'all"? 😂 Yes, it's a thing. You - singular second person, can be extended to 2-3 people. Y'all - plural second person, limited to a group you are addressing as indidividuals, albeit grouped together. Can be used for as few as two people, and extended any group for which individual responses would be practical in the situation. All y'all - a *collective* plural second person, used to refer to a group *as a monolithic group*. Often used as an emphasized enhancer.

I came to the comments to find out if anyone pointed this out! The movie has always been used as an example of horrid and inaccurate accents! People were not paying as much attention to authenticity then.

Having a British accent could actually help because most Southern dialects retain features from British dialects that mid-Atlantic & modern “standard American English” dropped. See the situation with rhotic R, for example. I can’t say how that played out for this specific actress, but I don’t see why her brain would think of it as going “through” mid-Atlantic, as opposed to “oh this is just another accent to learn”, because it’s not necessarily the case that mid-Atlantic would have been “closer” to her native speech patterns. Could have also been a directing decision to combine the two to make her sound more exotic. 🤷🏾

Viven Leigh's accent is quite good. A Southern accent is very similar to a Posh English accent including the Elizabethan lilt. The drawl is added by Southerners.

@@lorettabayley3650 No, they were very much interested in portraying Southern culture correctly. David O. Selznick hired two Southerners who were experts on accents and Southern manners-Will A. Price and Macon columnist Susan Myrick in order that the accents were authentic. Margaret Mitchell was pleased with the Southern accents of the various characters.

Wait, wasn't Clark Gable playing a Brit who became a blockade runner?

I feel that. I spent time in Virginia Beach, greater Baltimore, Seoul, and Denver. I also shed my accent, but it's easier when no one around you speaks it. Every time I talk with family back home, though, it comes back strong for a couple of days after.

There’s nothing prettier than a Mississippi accent! After working in Mississippi for six years, I’m proud to say that I have picked up a lot of it blended with my native Texas accent

Don’t ever hold back your accent. As a Midwesterner, hearing accents of any kind is a breath of fresh air. I love complimenting people on their accent and letting them know how wonderful it is…..to that point I do have a switch that lets me go back and forth from proper to my native accent.

@@Jibberish18 I can't speak for other folks in this thread, but for me at least it's a little too late. Now, whenever I try to do a southern accent out of the blue, it sounds like an imitation. I have to constantly be around southern-accented people for it to stick again. For the most part, I now sound like a generic American. It was a complete change.

@@warpdrivefueledbyinsomnia8165 Been told that I can begin to sound like an old 1920’s gangster when I speak comfortably and loose for long enough. On the subject of Generic American, we Americans don’t realize it but we all have an accent. Even the “generic” ones. This is how you know most of the time if an actor is English. They all mimic American English by sounding completely bland and whitewashed. Listen to Cumberpatch in all of his movies. Australians somehow do a really good job though.

Can’t speak for “Georgia”, but the “mid-Atlantic” accent popularized by Katherine Hepburn was largely an artificial creation: It was taught in language schools as an indicator of elitism, but was also widely used in movies and radio broadcasts because the exaggerated pronunciation worked well in a recorded format and was easier for listeners to pick up at the other end.

That Scarlet O'Hare accent is called "Southern Proper" or a " Coastal Southern Accent" and it was spoken by mostly wealthy, coastal southerners in the 19th and 20th century. I still hear it occasionally in places like Charleston, Savannah, Wilmington or the Tidewater region of Virginia, spoken by some older people. Overall, it's not a common accent in the South and it has mostly died out. Unfortunately, Hollywood hasn't caught on, they seem to think that Southerners either sound like Boomhauer, Foghorn Leghorn, or Scarlet O'Hare.

@@user-tp8ut7cs6j That checks out. I recently took a historic walking tour of Charleston, and although our guide was born and raised in the city, his accent was minor and only noticeable if you were really paying attention. He didn’t seem particularly “senior”, so it makes sense that any remnants of the classical accent would be more common among older populations.

@@Hallows4 The remnants of it are definitely still around, even among some younger people. Charleston is known for being one of the few places where the accent is still heard often. I used to live in Wilmington, NC and you would hear the accent spoken on very rare occasions, often by local, older, "old money" types. It's distinguishable from other Southern accents because, like British English and Northeastern American dialects, it's non-rhotic, which means the R's aren't heavily pronounced. Wilmington, like most of NC's cities, has more transplants than locals now, there's more of a diversity in backgrounds and accents now, so that older Southern accent is disappearing fast. A really cool old Southern accent you should look into is "Hoi Toiders" (High Tiders), it's the accent spoken by some of the older locals of the Outerbanks. It's really fascinating to hear. It sounds like a mix between a Southern accent and a British Isles brogue. That accent is also disappearing quickly. I had a teacher once from Harker's Island, which she called "Hoiker's Oiland." She'd lost the brogue when she moved to the mainland and had to get rid of it in order to be understood. She would intentionally switch between a General American accent and a Hoi Toiders accent at will, in order to amuse people.

This, though sometimes the North FL southern drawl pops in if I'm not paying attention--even though I grew up in South FL.

Interesting. My experience in “cosmopolitan” (suburban nightmare) North Florida was not like that. It was very much like what was in the video. But I think we Millenials, who would tamp down the accent with our peers at school, often *thought* we didn’t have an accent. There’s a tendency to compare oneself or one’s family to the thickest drawl imaginable and then think, “of course I don’t sound like that, so I don’t speak with an accent”.

@@sasentaiko North Florida is much more a part of the Deep South than Central & South Florida (Everglades excluded), having a lot more transplants from all over, but especially the North (Yankees)

I grew up in FL... No one from FL sounds British lmao

@@BadgerCheese94 I know. But that’s what they thought they were hearing. What they were actually hearing was my gay accent, because I enunciate.

I say, I say, that is a magnanimous example of a southern accent

He had that southern gent thing going on😂

Foghorn Leghorn was voiced by a Californian doing his take on an exaggerated southern accent from the turn of the century. I think perhaps the model was copied by Hollywood and too many movies feature a Canadian speaking like a Californian speaking like a caricature of a late-1800's upper-class coastal southern gentleman to portray a lower-class character set in present-day Tennessee. That said, Foghorn Leghorn is pretty great.

​@@JoMo4Sho You're talking about Mel Blanc. He had a talent for imitating accents since he was 10 years old. Anyway, a popular radio show at the time had a popular character called "Senator Claghorn" who was played by Kenny Delmar. Blanc originally did the voice for Forghorn to sound exactly like Yosemite Sam. But changed it to imitate the accent of Senator Claghorn. By the way, the actor playing Claghorn was born in Boston. But he was a vaudeville actor, so he traveled a lot as a kid. So he picked up the Southern accent during his travels.

Where is Bugs Bunny's accent from?

That would be so fun! I always apologize to my EFL students. I tell them that the fun part about learning a second language is getting to learn it in with an accent or a dialect!

@@1234fakerstreet I’m the same, exactly! Language interference is also a great way to reverse engineer a language for one’s own studies. Cheers to a fellow TEFL teacher!

Hello fellow okie and thank you so much for describing OK perfectly😂

What’s SSB?

I’m from Oklahoma and I think many people would have a Midlands dialect. You can see the range on the map here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland_American_English?wprov=sfti1#St._Louis_corridor Not all, of course, but even some of the vocabulary is more in-line with the Midwest in some cases (like how many Oklahomans call soda “pop,” for example). While some consider it to be in “the South,” others would consider it more in line with the Midwest (and some would even say Southwest - but that may depend more on how one views the Southwest). Really, we’re at the intersection of various cultural regions of the U.S., and it’s difficult to put it entirely in one category. I think a decent compromise would be to call it a Great Plains state and lump it together with Kansas and maybe Nebraska or something.

why do you say that?

My wife is from the north of ATL, Duluth area, and yeah, she has none of that, nor did any her friends. Born in 85.

Shame about white people speaking aave...

It's affected Aristocratic Southern accent. You almost never hear it now a days, just "Country" accents. The Southern has a drawl, where as the country one has a twang.

Actually, close to everyone in Munich speaks with a typical Southern German accent; despite accent levelling. You seem to confuse accents with dialects. The traditional Bavarian dialect spoken in Munich - Münchnerisch - is essentially close to dead (the linguistic term for this status is moribund) and will have died out completely in a few years time. Close to everyone speaking Bavarian in Munich is not originally from Munich, but from the countryside and thus not speaking the original Bavarian from Munich. But that's different from the accent people speak here in Munich. We have retained all the characteristics of speech from High German such as using "das" instead of "dat" (Sankt Goar Linie) , "machen" instead of "maken" (Benrather Linie) as well as "Apfel" instead of "Appel" (Speyerer Linie) and so on. We also say "sh" instead of "s" when problubcung words such as "Stein" (stone) and so on and so forth. We also don't say auch [ˈhambʊɪ̯ç], but [ˈhambʊʁk], when talking about Hamburg etc. All in all, the Southern accent is omnipresent here, which certainly is helped by Standard German being strongly based on High German.

she levels me up all right

hey hey!

My favorite was always the kids playing up the "southern country boy" thing to absurd degrees- like, "dude, you were born in Ann Arbor and live in a million dollar suburban mansion"

You'll hear it more if you go outside the cities.

@@quinnsoutar2196Like Kid Rock waving his Rebel flags when he's from Detroit.

Even forty-five years ago, Dad talked about all the cute local girls in the 101 classes in college... But by third semester, you heard a lot more indecipherable thick German accents from the profs if you just stuck around Tech. The engineering program was meant to draw talent from around the country, and didn't keep a lot of locals.

It was like that in my part of Louisiana too, where they mainly had normal accents from middle class backgrounds while the dudes actually from rural areas had actual southern accents​@quinnsoutar2196

I have had students from Texas who did not sound like Texas. And that was because their parents were from massachusetts

I have a cousin who married a man from New Jersey. After living in rural Georgia for 10 or 15 years, he's picked up a bit of a drawl. 😅

Great! There's nothin' at all wrong with the Texas accent AND ATTITUDE!! 🇨🇱

​@@leslie4351 Thats a Chilean accent

Yeah in Louisiana alot of people said Car like Caw as well

I'm in the same age group and from the same area as you. Luckily, the accent hasn't died with my family, and my friends my age still have it. But it definitely seems largely dead, or at least dying, among people native to Raleigh, and definitely Cary. I just read an article not long ago that Wake, Orange, and Durham counties all now have higher numbers of non-natives to natives, and that non-natives are now a whopping 49% of the state. If you cross over into Johnston county though, the accents become far more Southern on average.

Yeah, I am a Yankee and I hate how Southerners are stereotyped as dumb hicks. One of the smartest people I ever met was a Kentucky woman with a thick accent. P.S. I am also in theater and Tracy Letts wrote and set his multiple award-winning play, 'August: Osage County' in his native Oklahoma to show that people from his state weren't idiots. Letts himself was the son of a bestselling author mother and a college professor father.

And it's still going on to this day. Think the cringy "Texan" accents on the show Young Sheldon coming from people who are indeed being stereotyped as ignorant, vs Sheldon whose speech is neutral sounding even as a young child.

Mainly with a lot of younger people getting educated and living in more major cities like Lafayette honestly,cause my grandmother had a heavier accent than my father that sounded different to his with mine sounding completely different from both even though to be fair I was mainly raised in the city while they were raised in the countryside

I'm from Massachusetts and don't say the second T. I also say Toronto without the second T.

Lol, hell I don't even know if I pronounce the first T, more like Adlannuh, but you are definitely correct. Born and raised in Atlanta also.