Cities with the most "neutral" accent??? (live, state, places)

[STLCardsBlues1989]

My dad was once told that he has a "St. Louis accent." He hasn't lived in St. Louis for 35 years. We live closer to Arkansas.

Most St. Louisans I have heard don't have much of an accent.

Here's some St. Louis speakers, granted some are professionals and transplants.
http://www.stlrcga.org/x2769.xml

You can also listen to these videos. There are some native speakers here, although the reporters are probably trained to speak a certain way. Here's one of these videos, but there are a lot of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0045KxpV8eE

[tmac9wr]

Boston's pretty neutral...right? haha

[goat314]

Originally Posted by jluke65780

Blacks from St. Louis talk VERY southern.

The older generation for sure, but not so much the younger generation. Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland are the same, but I think it is more of a black affliction than sounding very Southern.

[SweethomeSanAntonio]

Originally Posted by flyingwriter

No accent? Please tell me you're kidding. Every Texan I've met (including those from Austin) sounds very Southern.

Ha Ha yes no accent in San Antonio. No southern accent here.

[SweethomeSanAntonio]

I'm trying to think of people from San Antonio that are famous. Eva Longoria has no accent, pretty much the nuetral accent you will find here. People that happen to have accents are foreign born.

[blkgiraffe]

Originally Posted by SweethomeSanAntonio

I'm trying to think of people from San Antonio that are famous. Eva Longoria has no accent, pretty much the nuetral accent you will find here. People that happen to have accents are foreign born.

Eva Longoria is not from San Antonio and most Latinos don't have a southern accent anyways. At least in Texas.

[SweethomeSanAntonio]

Originally Posted by jluke65780

Eva Longoria is not from San Antonio and most Latinos don't have a southern accent anyways. At least in Texas.

She has lived in San Antonio for quite sometime, has ties here. Plus she is from Corpus Chrisiti which is only 120 miles away.

[Spade]

Originally Posted by LAnative10

HAHA, no.

Actually he or she is right. I don't hear an accent in San Antonio nor Austin.

[blkgiraffe]

Originally Posted by Spade

Actually he or she is right. I don't hear an accent in San Antonio nor Austin.

Native Austinites sound just as country as the rest of us.

[Floyd_Gondolli]

Originally Posted by SweethomeSanAntonio

Ha Ha yes no accent in San Antonio. No southern accent here.

Perhaps no accent to you.... the rest of us hear an annoying patois of country drawl, strung-out vowels and a North-Mexican verbal cadence that can easily be detected by anyone who does not live in South Texas. Personally, I think the average San Antonio male sounds like Edward James Olmos after a severe head injury. Nothing "neutral" about the San Antonio accent.

Nobody ever hears the accent where they live.