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Boston
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1.10% |
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NYC
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4 |
4.40% |
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Philly
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3.30% |
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Baltimore
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6.59% |
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DC
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36 |
39.56% |
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Chicago
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25 |
27.47% |
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Detroit
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10.99% |
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LA
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6.59% |
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04-08-2011, 07:28 PM
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Location: Washington D.C. By way of Texas
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Originally Posted by SKxoxo
There is a difference between "country" and "Southern". Specify what you mean.
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I was JUST getting ready to come in here and say that.
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04-08-2011, 07:32 PM
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Location: Washington D.C. By way of Texas
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Originally Posted by HtownLove
those don't sound country to me at all. Man you speak to the average old native/Louisianan black guy here on the street of Houston and I swear you are gonna need a translator. After 10 years I still have problems understanding some people here.
I dare anyone who says Houston is not southern to come chat up a native black/white or even hispanic Houstonian. All of them have southern twangs, and all of them are always fixin' to do somethin'
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To be fair. You can get a southern twang in the Midwestern cities amongst Blacks as well and they all say fixin' and fitna too. But I've never met a native Hispanic from Houston with a southern twang and I've met many of them. Too many as a matter of fact. Most of their dialect and accent was neutral if not broken.
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04-08-2011, 07:39 PM
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Location: Up on the moon laughing down on you
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Originally Posted by Spade
To be fair. You can get a southern twang in the Midwestern cities amongst Blacks as well and they all say fixin' and fitna too. But I've never met a native Hispanic from Houston with a southern twang and I've met many of them. Too many as a matter of fact. Most of their dialect and accent was neutral if not broken.
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you must not have been talking to native or you may have been talking to those from upper middle class back grounds. I have only taught disadvantaged kids from Pasadena, Galena Park 5th ward etc. Hispanic, White, blue, green they all had heavy southern accents. Even the ones whose parents could not speak English.
Anyway, i am not saying that mid western blacks don't sound southern, the two that Polo posted just were not good representatives.
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04-08-2011, 07:44 PM
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Location: Detroit's eastside, downtown Detroit in near future!
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Originally Posted by Spade
To be fair. You can get a southern twang in the Midwestern cities amongst Blacks as well and they all say fixin' and fitna too. But I've never met a native Hispanic from Houston with a southern twang and I've met many of them. Too many as a matter of fact. Most of their dialect and accent was neutral if not broken.
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na uh us Detroiter do not say fixin or fitna...............we say finna thank you lol 
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04-08-2011, 07:44 PM
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Location: Washington D.C. By way of Texas
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Originally Posted by HtownLove
you must not have been talking to native or you may have been talking to those from upper middle class back grounds. I have only taught disadvantaged kids from Pasadena, Galena Park 5th ward etc. Hispanic, White, blue, green they all had heavy southern accents. Even the ones whose parents could not speak English.
Anyway, i am not saying that mid western blacks don't sound southern, the two that Polo posted just were not good representatives.
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The ones I have talked to are from South Park ,Sunnyside, and many other neighborhoods on the Southside and none of them had Southern accents. That said, Hispanics with Southern accents probably do exist in Houston as they were influenced by Blacks and Whites that had original Southern accents.
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04-08-2011, 07:45 PM
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Location: Washington D.C. By way of Texas
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Originally Posted by detroitlove
na uh us Detroiter do not say fixin or fitna...............we say finna thank you lol |
That too lol. I've heard that in Chicago alot. But fixin is very popular up here.
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04-08-2011, 07:51 PM
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Location: Oakland, CA
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Originally Posted by King_X
listen to the stand-ups, movies, and sitcom of the late "Bernie Mac" out of Chicago, or for those familiar with old school rap, the song "Hay" by Chicago-based group Crucial Conflict.....just as country as can be lol.
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I did not think I would see the day the Crucial Conflict was old school.
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04-08-2011, 07:52 PM
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Location: Detroit's eastside, downtown Detroit in near future!
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Originally Posted by Spade
That too lol. I've heard that in Chicago alot. But fixin is very popular up here.
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lol yea, usually the older folks say fixin and the younger ones say finna. Detroit people always "finna" do something.
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04-08-2011, 07:58 PM
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Location: Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
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Some of the blacks in Dallas are not country, they just pronounce words very WRONG.
Dallas = Dellez
South Oak Cliff = Souf O Cliff
Library = lieberry
Maryland = Merland
There's a grocery store in Dallas called Minyard. It's pronounced Minyerd. Min is pronounced like mini. The black people in Dallas call it Min-YARD. They say it just like the yard in the front of your house.
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04-08-2011, 08:02 PM
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Location: Up on the moon laughing down on you
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Originally Posted by Dallaz
Some of the blacks in Dallas are not country, they just pronounce words very WRONG.
Dallas = Dellez
South Oak Cliff = Souf O Cliff
Library = lieberry
Maryland = Merland
There's a grocery store in Dallas called Minyard. It's pronounced Minyerd. Min is pronounced like mini. The black people in Dallas call it Min-YARD. They say it just like the yard in the front of your house.
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oh please, boy you know your hood folk are kuntry. Dallas has its share of southern folk too
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