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The only difference i notice some people may speak faster or slower depending on the area. Or how they say some words in Georgia that we don't really use in Texas.
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That's why i said "person from _____" and not "people in _____". Louisiana has to many accents/dialects to choose from. New Orleans has at least 5+, more like 10+, in the metro area alone. From end to next you would hear Dea, Dah, Deh, Dair, and everything in between.
So here's my question: if East Texas was its own state, would it be as southern as Georgia?
Yes it would. But with some TEXAS influence. Becaues even certain aspects of east Texas are overlaped by the culture of the rest of Texas. But essentially East Texas is about as southern as Mississippi, and Georgia, and Alabama, ect, ect.
So with that reasoning, let's say Dr. King was based out Houston instead of Atlanta, the biggest battle of the Civil War was fought here in Texas, Gone With the Wind was about a girl Houston, and a hundred years later a thousand Confederate monuments are erected around the city. Then Houston would be more southern than Atlanta right?
Take a person from New Orleans or Baton Rouge and than a person from Atlanta and Savannah; Than tell me you don't hear a difference.
The accents are different just between the cities alone.
Agreed. You can DEFINITELY tell the difference between a Louisiana accent and EVERYONE else. Louisiana, AND parts of East Texas have the Cajun creole accents, that sound sort of French. Me being Haitian I SORT of hear an accent similar to that daily from my parents. A lot of the descendents of black in New Orleans are Haitian.
Yeah, I meant dialect. My bad on the confusion. While those two areas are very distinguished, you can hear the similiarities more between MS/AL speech and Atlanta speech. The same cannot be said for Houston. I'll say again, there isn't a city in the South that sounds like Houston. New Orleans and Miami are the same way and there isn't a place in the South that sounds like them. Dallas dialect is VERY similar to Northern Louisiana though.
I agree about NO and Miami. I think it is once again because of the Caribbean/Haitian factor. NO being a port for Haitian slaves, and Miami being a city FULL of Haitians. Even in terms of hip-hop you'll hear a rapper like Juvenile give a shout out to little haiti in Miami. Or Lil Wayne always chillin in Lil Haiti and trying to speak French and Kreyol. And the spelling between Creole as in mixed race in Louisiana, and Kreyol the language us Haitians speak is distinguisable. I think THAT is the connection between the 2 cities. The south is pretty diverse.
So with that reasoning, let's say Dr. King was based out Houston instead of Atlanta, the biggest battle of the Civil War was fought here in Texas, Gone With the Wind was about a girl Houston, and a hundred years later a thousand Confederate monuments are erected around the city. Then Houston would be more southern than Atlanta right?
Of course it would. Those are the characteristics and HISTORY of the south.
Of course it would. Those are the characteristics and HISTORY of the south.
Hm. I was pretty sure you were gonna say no lol.
With that said, while I do think the history makes Atlanta the cornerstone of the South (as I said before), I just don't think it makes it more southern.
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