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Ah LOVE a southern drawl. And actually many southern accents -especially from NC, SC, VA and GA sound very genteel and polished. Don't ch'all know that?
Way too big of a generalization. There are some northern accents that sound closer to many southern dialects than they do to other northern accents, and vice versa. An example; Maine. Maine accent has many similarities to accents you'd find in the old South, especially eastern VA and the eastern Carolinas. However, a Maine accent sounds very different from the "Northern" accent one finds in the Great Lakes region from Upstate NY to Wisconsin.
In Southern Louisiana; it would be easier to confuse a person with the Cajun accent with a New Englander/ NYC'er than with someone from Tennessee.
See what I mean? A lot of it has to do with different accents being Rhotic or Non-Rhotic; neither of these is exclusive to the north or south.
Which do you like better? sounding dumb or sounding smart?
What a dumb-sounding response.
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