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Do all Americans born in 1990 or later speak the Californian way or are regional accents still strong/present in the younger generation?
Yes and No. I think that accents are strongly divided by race and by socio-economic status. More likely than not if you have a younger person who is upper middle class (or upper class) they are not going to have an accent but instead sound more like the typical "valley girl" accent that you make reference to. Working class, or blue collar people tend to have the regional accent (including younger people), and of course ethnic people tend to have accents that coincide with their racial identity.
Yes and No. I think that accents are strongly divided by race and by socio-economic status. More likely than not if you have a younger person who is upper middle class (or upper class) they are not going to have an accent but instead sound more like the typical "valley girl" accent that you make reference to. Working class, or blue collar people tend to have the regional accent (including younger people), and of course ethnic people tend to have accents that coincide with their racial identity.
At least this has been my experience.
20yrsinBranson
So like will the lower-class teenagers today still speak with Southern twangs, Yooper accents, pahk cars, etc?
Do all Americans born in 1990 or later speak the Californian way or are regional accents still strong/present in the younger generation?
No to the California way since General American english comes from Midland which is originally from the Delaware Valley. As far as losing the regional accents go the answer to that is both yes and no.
I was born in 1990 and I do have a small local accent and do use a lot of local words in regular conversation. I never use those words however in formal conversation.
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