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After looking at all these post I will agree with the notion that Texas accent is neutral. Texans for the most part have a southern accent but pronounce there words correctly. In Georgia they say "dat" instead of that. In Texas its more slang to speak in such a way, but in other regions thats really the way they talk.
After looking at all these post I will agree with the notion that Texas accent is neutral. Texans for the most part have a southern accent but pronounce there words correctly. In Georgia they say "dat" instead of that. In Texas its more slang to speak in such a way, but in other regions thats really the way they talk.
Texas has different accents. Like when I came from Waco to Houston, people asked if I was from Dallas (We basically talk the same as them). You can tell what area of Texas people from because of their accent.
Thats a better map. I agree with how it covers a little more West Virginia. I got a buddy in Parkersburg who talks just like my relatives in the southern part of WV. Which is the same twang in eastern Kentucky or southwest Virginia. Thats weird about Charleston though.......There def. is a southern coastal dialect out there.
West Virginia's accent for the most part is southern Appalachian. I'm from Clarksburg which is right above the southern accent line. That does seem accurate. People south of Clarksburg have more of a southern sound. North of Clarksburg, the midland/western Pennsylvania influences pick up a bit more but it still has an Appalachian sound. Although not usually associated with Applachia, western PA is very much Appalachian in character. It's just not southern Appalachian.
Growing up in Clarksburg, I never felt I was part of the south though. But I knew wasn't in the northeast or midwest either. I thought of it as Mid Atlantc but the Atlantic Ocean doesn't even touch WV in any direction. Those transition areas are kind of blurry.
West Virginia's accent for the most part is southern Appalachian. I'm from Clarksburg which is right above the southern accent line. That does seem accurate. People south of Clarksburg have more of a southern sound. North of Clarksburg, the midland/western Pennsylvania influences pick up a bit more but it still has an Appalachian sound. Although not usually associated with Applachia, western PA is very much Appalachian in character. It's just not southern Appalachian.
Growing up in Clarksburg, I never felt I was part of the south though. But I knew wasn't in the northeast or midwest either. I thought of it as Mid Atlantc but the Atlantic Ocean doesn't even touch WV in any direction. Those transition areas are kind of blurry.
West Virginia it depends on who you ask. I mean someone in southern WV like Webster and below might consider themselves southerners. With Morgantown your close to Pittsburgh, so it's a different story. Same with Parkersburg and Marietta Ohio. Most people I ever knew from WV (family included) were just proud of the state...They never really cared what region it was in. That my feelings on WV.
Southeastern Louisiana does not typically exhibit the archetypical southern accent, and traces of it are almost entirely absent in the New Orleans area, with the exception of the North Shore (which had few connections to New Orleans until the Causeway opened in 1956). New Orleans generally sounds more like Brooklyn.
I find that the southern accent present in other areas of the state, particularly north Louisiana, do not have the same high pitched "twang" found in many other parts of the south.
So basically what it comes down to is Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, North Florida, and Alabama is where the strongest southern accents reside.
Texas has an accent, it's a spanish one though. I'll go with Mississippi and then Alabama. A lot of the states are losing their southern accent due to the northerners and their influences joining their communities. This is happening in South Carolina and parts of Georgia IMO.
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